The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has released new figures on child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation online. Findings include: 97% of all child sexual abuse material identified in 2021 featured the sexual abuse of girls, compared with 65% of all imagery ten years ago.
The Internet Watch Foundation | IWF | IWF
Channel 4 has aired a documentary on the Metaverse, which looks at the harmful content young people could be exposed to on the 3D virtual online community.
Inside the Metaverse Are You Safe? Dispatches – All 4 (channel4.com)
The May 2022 edition of the CyberScotland Bulletin
has been published.
CLPL Opportunity
Keeping Children Safe: Tackling Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour Conference
Monday 27th June 14:00 – 17:00 online via Microsoft Teams
Cost: FREE
Stop It Now! Scotland, in partnership with the RS Macdonald Trust.
Technology assisted harmful sexual behaviour online is when children and young people use the internet or technology such as mobile phones to engage in sexual activity that may be harmful to themselves or others. It is a growing issue for all professionals with a role safeguarding children and young people.
This online conference will showcase learning from Reducing Online Sexual Abuse (ROSA) project that ran between 2018 and 2021 in Glasgow. The project was co-located in Shawlands Academy a large high school in Glasgow and the HALT project for children who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour. Throughout the four years we worked with young people who displayed online harmful sexual behaviour and also engaged collaboratively with young people to develop initiatives that prevent online peer on peer sexual abuse, harassment and exploitation in school settings.
To register for this FREE event please visit Eventbrite here.
