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Source: Lucy Faithfull Foundation
Date published: 12 September 2024
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation has published a new paper on the use of warning messages and chatbots to help prevent online child sexual abuse. The paper evaluates the chatbot tool designed to confront and redirect people searching for child sexual abuse images online. Findings from the experiment carried out through an online adult pornography website show: the warning message and chatbot did have a deterrent effect and when the chatbot was turned off for a month, searches for child sexual abuse images increased. The Foundation is calling for technology companies to focus on earlier prevention, such as warning messages, wider education, and clear expectations of user behaviour.
Read the report: Introducing our chatbot - a pioneering tool in the fight against online child sexual abuse
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date published: 12 September 2024
NSPCC Learning, with the PSHE Association, has updated its Talk PANTS resources for nurseries and primary schools to help keep children safe from sexual abuse. The updates include a presentation of the Underwear Rule to use with 3- to 5-year-olds.
Access the resources: PANTS resources for schools and teachers
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date published: 06 September 2024
NSPCC Learning has published a Helplines insight briefing on young people’s experiences of online sexual extortion, or ‘sextortion’. Drawing from contacts to Childline and the NSPCC Helpline in 2023/24, the briefing explores: how sextortion occurs and how it can escalate; the impact on young people’s mental wellbeing; how to spot the signs; and how to talk to young people who may be at risk. It also provides guidance for reporting and preventing incidents of sextortion.
Read the report: Young people’s experiences of online sexual extortion or ‘sextortion’
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date published: 30 August 2024
NSPCC Learning has published a Learning from case reviews briefing on suicide. The briefing is based on a sample of case reviews published between 2021 and 2023 where suicide was a key factor. The briefing highlights: the importance of understanding how suicide in young people often follows the accumulation of different vulnerabilities and adversities; the need to hear children’s voices and understand their experiences of the world; and the importance of promoting positive, trusting relationships in young people’s lives.
Read the briefing: Suicide: learning from case reviews