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One of the most important things you can do to keep your child safe online is to TALK:
🆃alk to your child about online sexual abuse.
🅰gree ground rules about the way you use technology as a family.
🅻earn about the platforms and apps your child loves.
🅺now how to use tools, apps and settings that can help keep your child safe online.
Initiating that first conversation is challenging, and something no parent wants to do, but engaging in open and ongoing conversations about online sexual abuse could make all the difference in keeping them safe online.
Download the TALK resource for guidance, tips and support
Report Remove is a first-of-its kind tool run by the Internet Watch and the NSPCC’s Childline, providing young people under 18 with a safe and simple way to report sexual imagery of themselves that has been shared online.
Throughout the process, young people are provided with support from Childline, while the IWF works to ensure this imagery cannot be uploaded or redistributed online.
If your child confides that they’re worried about their intimate images being shared online, you can encourage them to make a report and seek support via Report Remove.
Access the Report Remove site
Young people are sharing nudes for all kinds of reasons – with people they know, and people they don’t. These images are routinely being ‘leaked’ and shared across peer groups and the wider internet.
Our Think Before You Share campaign aims to educate young people on the harm of sharing sexual imagery by encouraging thoughtful decision-making, and to help parents/carers manage discussions about online safety with their children.
If your child approaches you about this topic, you can refer them to this resource or use it to initiate conversation around their online safety.
Visit the Think Before You Share site for advice and guidance
Sexually coerced extortion or ‘sextortion' is a type of blackmail where someone tries to use sexual imagery of a victim to make them do something against their will or pay money.
Criminals often target people who use social media platforms, webcam/live streaming sites or websites related to pornography. They might pretend to be someone else online and befriend their victim. Later, they might threaten to share intimate pictures or videos with their victim’s family and friends.
If your child ever finds themselves in this situation, it’s important to reassure them that they are not at fault and to seek help.
Access support and guidance on dealing with sextortion
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