Internet Watch Foundation

We are proud to be a member of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK internet hotline for the public to report their inadvertent exposure to online child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world and criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK.

IWF was established in 1996 by the UK internet industry and works in partnership with the wider online industry, law enforcement, government, the education sector, charities, international partners and the public to minimise the availability of content within its remit. As a result of this self-regulatory approach, less than 1% of online child sexual abuse content has been hosted in the UK since 2003, down from 18% in 1997.

Through the internet hotline reporting system, the IWF helps the online industry combat abuse of its services through a ‘notice and take-down’ initiative by alerting them to potentially illegal content within IWF’s remit on their systems and enabling the police to investigate those responsible. This partnership approach is widely recognised as a model of good practice in combating the abuse of technology for the dissemination of illegal content.

You can report criminal content to the Internet Watch Foundation using their secure, confidential and anonymous reporting system.