Working with young people to prevent financially motivated sexual extortion – ‘sextortion’

Financially motivated sexual extortion, or ‘sextortion’ is a growing issue in the UK. It’s a form of blackmail that often includes people threatening to share sexual images of you with everyone in your life – unless you send money, more sexual images of yourself or sexual images of others. The theme of this year’s Safer […]
Picking up the pieces: supporting the secondary victims of online child sexual abuse

The development of technology and artificial intelligence has opened the gates to a flood of online child sexual abuse. The growing number of victims and survivors need all the support that society can provide. As well as this, there’s a growing recognition that the families of people who offend are also affected and need help. […]
To get serious about protecting children, we need to talk about prevention

There’s been a lot of focus on the subject of grooming gangs over the past couple of weeks. The fact that people are talking about it means that the protection of children can get the attention it desperately needs. Unfortunately, little of the discussion has focused on what victims and survivors need, or how to […]