Our new films to help you keep children safe over Christmas
17
December
2020
The festive season is now well underway, but there are lots of things that will be very different this year. With everything that’s going on, it’s important to make sure children are kept safe both online and in person.
It’s not always easy to know how to spot the warning signs of abuse in both adults and children, or to know how to start difficult conversations.
But as children spend more time either online or
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We’ve just launched our strategy that will shape our work to prevent child sexual abuse between now and 2025.
We have big ambitions, and The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is not a huge charity. So, are we trying to do too much? We don’t think so.
We are in a unique position. We deliver a wide range of services throughout the UK and are supporting developments across the world.
Our Stop It Now! helpline is the largest
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We’ve just published our Annual Report with the highlights of the past year and our plans for the future. Even though the last year hasn’t been what many of us would have wanted, it’s meant that our services are needed more than ever.
Since 1992, The Lucy Faithfull Foundation has been working to prevent child sexual abuse by helping the public and professionals know how to play their part in keeping children safe.
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IWF and Stop It Now! to develop ground-breaking chatbot to combat online child sexual abuse
14
October
2020
A new chatbot targeting people trying to access online child sexual abuse images will be developed by the Internet Watch Foundation, in partnership with Stop It Now! and The Lucy Faithfull Foundation.
The chatbot, named ‘reThink’, will engage with internet users who are showing signs that they might be looking for images of child sexual abuse.
Online solutions to online problems
The automated pop up will attempt to
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The latest figures from The Lucy Faithfull Foundation outline the impact of the range of child protection work carried out between April 2018 and March 2019, including some record-breaking numbers.
In a year that saw a £600,000 funding boost from the Home Office, our Stop It Now! helpline took calls and emails from thousands of people. The money was granted to increase the number of operator hours on the helpline from January 2019
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The Lucy Faithfull Foundation responds to the government's online harms white paper consultation
04
July
2019
The government’s aim for the UK to be the safest place in the world to go online will soon be informed by the views of experts and the public. After publishing their online harms white paper in April, the government opened a consultation taking opinions from interested parties – including The Lucy Faithfull Foundation.
Deborah Denis, director of fundraising and external relations at The Lucy Faithfull Read More
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The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced plans to publish a new cross-government strategy to tackle child sexual abuse. The strategy will focus on both online and offline abuse, and will bring together different government departments, charities and other organisations to coordinate the different ways they work to keep children safe.
In September, Mr Javid announced a partnership with The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, including a
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News from the Internet Watch Foundation
24
April
2019
According to data released today by The Internet Watch Foundation, 105,047 URLs containing child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI) or videos were identified and blocked over the last year, an increase of more than a third on the year before.
The IWF have said that much of the increase was due to an improvement in the technology it uses to detect and assess criminal content.
Promisingly, they have also found that the proportion of images
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