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What parents need to know about sexual image-sharing among kids
Learn about our research into sexual image-sharing among 11- to 13-year-olds and what these insights mean for parents.
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New report finds girls at worsening risk of grooming from sexual predators online
The range of proposed measures hopes to encourage companies to take reasonable steps to keep their users safe.
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It’s never too soon to think about how your children use technology
With tablets and smartphones now the devices of choice for ever younger children, John discusses what parents should know about ...
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Understanding the impact of sexting on a child’s mind
Catherine Knibbs explains the psychology behind the growing use of sexting among young people and gives tips on what parents ...
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What is LiveMe? – What parents need to know
LiveMe is a social platform for over-18s that allows users to connect with others and earn virtual goods to exchange ...
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How can we make the digital world a safer place?
Keeping our children safe online is one of the most pressing issues of the modern age. But as children using ...
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Sexting – defusing the teenage timebomb
We've created this fictional story about April, who sends an intimate image of herself to her friend and like in some real ...
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The job of analysing child sexual abuse images
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analysts removed record numbers of illegal web pages in 2014, but there remains much work to ...