Police are investigating apparent links between terrorism and a liking for child porn. A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain...

Facebook has been summoned to the Home Office to explain why it is refusing to install a "panic button" system that allows children to flag up suspected online paedophiles.

From PA: The head of a child sex abuse police unit hit out today at having to spend thousands of pounds on buying valuable information from internet firms. According to the BBC, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has spent more than £170,000 on gathering internet data since it was founded in 2006. The sum, which

346 children have been safeguarded in the last three years, the UK's national centre for tackling the sexual abuse of children - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre - announced yesterday.

The protection of children online has become an EU priority as lawmakers wake up to the risks of social networking sites and ramp up the fight against child pornography.

There’s another scam doing the rounds on Facebook - this one puts a message in your notifications as follows: Friend Name has faced some errors when checking your profile View The Errors Message  The spelling mistake is a clue but it’s subtle and I must admit, I nearly clicked on the Activate button after clicking the link. 

The consultation on this draft guidance aims to provide practitioners across all relevant agencies and the voluntary and community sector with information about different forms of sexual exploitation to help them identify and safeguard children and young people who are at risk of sexual exploitation, or who are being sexually exploited. It will replace the current guidance, Children involved in Pr...

Barnardo's has called on the Scottish Government to do more to protect children and young people from sexual exploitation.

UKIP has called for the sacking of Vijay Patel, the NSPCC official who tried to link home education with child abuse. UKIP is calling for the sacking of a child protection official following "dishonest" claims over home education. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is backing a government investigation into home-schooling amid fears that teaching children at home can hi...

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