How social workers can better support families affected by online child sexual abuse

By Natasha Sabin, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
Across the UK in 2021, there were, on average, over 850 arrests for online sexual offences every month. Sadly, the ease with which child sexual abuse material can be viewed and shared has led to a huge growth in the production of abuse images and in the numbers of people accessing them.
Data shows that, compared with those convicted of other forms of sexual offending, individuals who access child sexual abuse material are more likely to