Online sexual exploitation or abuse

Childline

Call free on 0800 1111, or talk online

Free counselling for children and young people in the UK, about anything that is worrying them. You can call, chat one-to-one with a counsellor online, or send a message.

• Run by NSPCC
• When Day or night

Report Remove

Helps young people under 18 in the UK confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and have them removed from the internet. The IWF can remove images that are public online; it cannot remove images on encrypted services or saved on someone’s device.

• Run by Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation

Report child sexual abuse imagery

Report online, anonymously if you wish

The UK hotline for reporting sexual images or videos of children found online, including AI-generated, drawn or animated images. Giving contact details is optional.

• Run by Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

CEOP Safety Centre

Report online

For young people, or adults on their behalf, worried about online sexual abuse or the way someone has been communicating with them online. Reports go to CEOP Child Protection Advisors.

• Run by National Crime Agency (CEOP)

NSPCC Helpline

Call 0808 800 5000 or email help@nspcc.org.uk

For adults with concerns about a child’s safety or wellbeing. Child protection specialists listen, advise and take action where needed. It does not have to be an emergency.

• Run by NSPCC
• When Phone 10am–4pm Monday to Friday; email 11am–4pm daily
• Languages English, Welsh; SignVideo

Find a child helpline in your country

A directory of child helplines around the world, listed by country with their contact details. Child helplines are run by organisations in each country to listen to and support children and young people.

• Run by Child Helpline International

Report child sexual abuse material to your national hotline

Explains how to report sexual images or videos of children found online, and links to the hotline for your country. You report the web address, not the files, and you do not need to give your name. INHOPE’s secretariat is not itself a hotline and cannot receive reports.

• Run by INHOPE

Take It Down

A free service that helps remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you before you were 18. It creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, so you do not send the image to anyone, and you can stay anonymous. It works on public or unencrypted platforms that have agreed to take part.

• Run by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)