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‘Child poverty has got a lot worse’: outgoing charity boss lambasts Tory failures and social media giants

Peter Wanless of the NSPCC calls for more preventive action on child poverty, a ban on ‘morally repugnant’ smacking and favours guardrails online rather than bans

The Guardian - UK

Australian-style social media ban for under-16s ‘a retrograde step’, say UK charities

Child safety experts say similar move in Britain would penalise young people for the failings of tech companies

The Guardian - UK

U16s social media ban punishes children for tech firm failures, charities say

The Australian government has introduced a Bill into the country’s parliament that would ban all those under 16 from accessing social media.

Evening Standard

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Snapchat most used social media platform for grooming, figures show as offences hit record high

‘He said he had saved the images and would send them to everyone if I stopped sending more pictures,’ victim says

The Independent UK

Reports to NSPCC helpline of physical punishment of children triple in year

Charity says rise ‘hugely concerning’ and calls for change in law in England and Northern Ireland in line with rest of UK

The Guardian - UK

NSPCC blasts Government’s ‘piecemeal’ response a year on from major abuse report

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published its final report exactly one year ago.

The Independent UK

Child sexual abuse material online ‘has doubled since 2019’

A new report from campaign group WeProtect Global Alliance has warned of the rise of abuse and online grooming of children.

The Independent UK

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Grooming cases soar to record high as charity urges tech giants to take responsibility for safety

Campaigners call for implementationmore robust Online Safety Bill

The Independent UK

34,000 online grooming crimes recorded during wait for safety law update – NSPCC

The Online Safety Bill has faced a lengthy route to the statute book, with repeated changes and delays to the proposed legislation.

The Independent UK

Engineers and gas employees to be trained to recognise signs of abuse and neglect during home visits

Workers who make callouts have a unique chance to make a difference, NSPCC says

The Independent UK

Engineers and gas employees trained to spot signs of abuse on home visits

Workers who make callouts have a unique chance to make a difference, the NSPCC said.

The Independent UK

NSPCC warns against framing grooming gangs problem as ethnicity-based

Sir Peter Wanless welcomes creation of taskforce but says ‘there must be a focus on more than just race’

The Guardian - UK

Child abuse image offences in UK have soared, NSPCC report shows

Charity says police recording has improved but online grooming has risen and tech firms are failing to act

The Guardian - UK

Shake-up of social care to offer children ‘love and stability’

The new strategy for England follows the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson which showed up shortcomings in child protection systems.

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The Independent UK

Bradley Wiggins fronts campaign to help public spot signs of child abuse

The NSPCC’s Listen Up, Speak Up campaign will give people practical information on steps they can take to keep a child safe if they have concerns.

The Independent UK

Public support tech bosses being made liable for online harms, NSPCC says

The children’s charity has called on the Government to amend the Online Safety Bill to make named managers criminally liable for harm on their sites.

The Independent UK

Children being coerced into most severe forms of sexual abuse online – report

The Internet Watch Foundation says it found nearly 900 instances of the most severe types of child sexual abuse content in just five days.

The Independent UK

NSPCC: Thousands of online child sex offences recorded during Safety Bill delay

The charity has urged the Prime Minister to make passing the Online Safety Bill his mission.

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The Guardian - UK

The Molly Russell inquest verdict damns Silicon Valley. There can be no more excuses

These companies make decisions that harm children. The government must take action, say the NSPCC’s Sir Peter Wanless and 5 Rights’ Lady Beeban Kidron

Daily Record

'Depressed' Molly Russell took her own life after viewing online content 'no child should see'

The teenager accessed material from the 'ghetto of the online world', with her family arguing that sites such as Pinterest and Instagram recommended accounts or posts that 'promoted' suicide and self-harm.

The Independent UK

NSPCC: Thousands of child abuse crimes every month Online Safety Bill is delayed

The NSPCC has written to the two Conservative leadership candidates, urging them to pass the Bill without delay once a new prime minister is in place.

Daily Record

Online grooming crimes sees sharp rise as police warn of 'tsunami' of exploitation

For victims under the age of 13, analysis of the Freedom of Information data from Police Scotland revealed, there was a steeper rise with 369 in 2021/22 and compared to 226 in 2017/18.

The Independent UK

Children in care ‘moving between placements a thousand times every week’

Young people with experience of being in care will gather in Parliament on Wednesday to demand radical reform of the children’s social care system.

The Independent UK

Child cruelty offences jump by a quarter in a year, figures show

The NSPCC released the figures on Childhood Day to highlight the importance of everyone playing their part in keeping children safe.

The Independent UK

Child cruelty offences soar as cases jump by 25% in a year

Figures show ‘worrying scale of abuse and neglect’, NSPCC says

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