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The Home Secretary has set out the scale of online child sexual exploitation, with a 700% increase in child abuse images being referred to the National Crime Agency in the last five years. Up to 80,000 people in the UK presenting some kind of sexual threat to children online and material increasingly featuring younger & younger children. In a speech at the headquarters of the NSPCC, the Home Secretary vowed to lead the cross-Government effort in the response to the evolving threat of online CSE, including funding for law enforcement, intelligence agencies and a new prevention drive. He called on the technology industry to work in partnership with each other and with government to stop online child sexual abuse, sharing solutions and best practice to improve the response. |
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Home Office: Tackling child sexual exploitation online Home Office: Keeping our children safe techUK response to Home Secretary speech on keeping children safe IWF comments on the Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s speech |