The Into the Light Index is the first global initiative providing critical data to improve child protection and prevent CSEA. Launched in 2024, it focuses on technology-facilitated CSEA, expanding in 2025 to include more sub-types.

The SHIELD framework assesses law enforcement capabilities across six pillars, identifying gaps and strengthening responses. The presentation covers key findings and future plans.

The Online Safety Act, which Ofcom is responsible for implementing and enforcing, was passed in October 2023. Our work on ensuring offenders can’t share child sexual abuse content and children don’t face unsafe contact is one of our targets for immediate action as we progress in delivering the regulations.

This session, run by IPPPRI and the Internet Watch Foundation, will build on last year’s presentation on the experiences of children and young people, parents/carers and educators of so-called ‘self-generated’ child sexual abuse material (SG-CSAM). This led to the development of the creative Think Before You Share campaign, which ran for 6 weeks during summer 2024. Emma Hardy and Ángela Muñoz Aroca will describe the work undertaken to develop and deliver the campaign and highlight some of the assets and resources created. Sarah Colley will join them to report on the findings from the recent campaign evaluation.

Shore pilot evaluation: A review of the implementation of the Shore website, anonymous chat and email service for young people

In June 2023, the Lucy Faithfull Foundation launched Shore, a unique online resource for teenagers worried about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts, feelings or behaviour. This presentation will share the key insights from an exploratory, mixed-methods study, reviewing the strengths and limitations of the first year of Shore’s delivery.

Elevating young people's voices for change

This presentation will explain why our work to elevate child and youth voices within research is so important and all the different ways integrating children’s voices challenges our fundamental understanding of how we conceive of and understand problems in the technical space. To explore this, we will draw on some examples of how our research has fundamentally challenged prior assumptions.

The ’Leaked’ Project - Understanding and addressing self-generated sexual content involving young people in Thailand

The 'Leaked' Project takes an innovative approach to understanding self-generated sexual content among children in Thailand. The project leverages quantitative insights from surveys of 2,000 children. Preliminary survey findings will be shared in this presentation focusing on the nuanced realities facing children as they negotiate consent, navigate cultural norms, and understand technology's role in modern relationships.

This series of workshops will explore how the CSE Taskforce has developed a number of approaches to improve the national policing and partner response to group-based offending.

• Data - how the use of police crime data is being used to develop policy, strategy and tactics in the response to the threat of group based child sexual abuse and exploitation.

Risky pornography use of young adult men in The Netherlands

This presentation shares the results of a new ongoing research project on the pornography habits of young adult men and how often they search for violent or illegal material, including CSAM. It will also be discussed how this knowledge can be used for the development of preventative interventions.

WPGA presents research on the health and wellbeing of frontline responders to online child sexual abuse and exploitation. In-depth interviews were conducted with 26 professionals from 13 countries. The research takes a “whole system” view across different types of organization and offers practical recommendations for employers of digital frontline responders.

This series of workshops will explore how the CSE Taskforce has developed a number of approaches to improve the national policing and partner response to group-based offending.

• Research - an outline of how effective collaboration and extensive academic research can influence systemic change. This session will be led by the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) a leading partner in the CSE Taskforce.

Exploring Online Grooming Opportunities on an Online Social Network: A mixed-method Approach

Children under 18 face growing risks from online predators, but how does this happen? This presentation uncovers real-world dangers by auditing children's profiles, testing threats with fictitious accounts, and interviewing UK investigators. It reveals how predators exploit vulnerabilities, evaluates online safety measures, and highlights urgent gaps and solutions to protect minors.

In this session, you’ll:

- Understand how trauma shows up in the workplace and its impact

- Learn to spot and respond to signs of trauma

- Create a personalised trauma-informed self-care plan — because your well-being matters too!

This series of workshops will explore how the CSE Taskforce has developed a number of approaches to improve the national policing and partner response to group-based offending.

• Partnership - a key ingredient of a successful response to exploitation is an effective partnership approach. Learn more about Operation Makesafe, a flagship disruption tool that was re-launched in 2024 and our ambition for 2025 and beyond.

Warning messages as a situational crime prevention strategy for child sexual abuse material online have been growing in their use in the last decade. This presentation will explore the growing evidence base for their efficacy and the efforts to make them “normal business” for tech providers.

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Korea’s Deepfake Crisis saw over 500 schools and universities targeted in an orchestrated campaign of sexual violence. Drawing on interviews with some of the organisations at the forefront of the country's response, this session will examine what happened and what lessons may exist for the UK.

Among all the positives and opportunities of the emerging Creator Economy, there will be negative consequences from GenAI, Web3, NeRFs, Gausian Splat, virtualization and other technologies. This time, we can't hide behind the phrase "unintended consequences." Now we know.

The power of You Are Enough™-peer support groups for parents whose children have fallen victims to sexual abuse.