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Teenage girls in England are significantly less likely to feel safe in school than their male classmates since the Covid pandemic. The study found that interventions to help boost pupils’ emotional engagement with schools are needed, with a focus on supporting girls to feel safe. It also found that girls in Year 9 in participating countries reported feeling significantly less safe in 2023 than 2019, with England seeing one of the biggest drop-offs

2024 saw record levels of web pages hosting child sexual abuse imagery discovered, according to The Internet Watch Foundation. 291,273 reports of child sexual abuse imagery were reported last year, with the organisation stating that rising numbers have been driven by threats, including AI-generated sexual abuse content, sextortion and the malicious sharing of nude or sexual imagery. Following the study, the IWF has announced that it’s making a new safety tool to help website owners spot and prevent the spread of abuse material on their platforms

Child-on-child sex abuse is increasing because adult content is available 24/7. Assistant Chief Constable Becky Riggs said that streaming giants have rendered the 9pm watershed redundant, as smartphones have made it possible to watch explicit content whenever. This comes as a report revealed that 115,489 child sexual exploitation incidents were recorded in the past year, of which almost half the suspects were between ten and 17, where age was known