Shaping Safer Futures - Brianna's Legacy

The negative experiences that Brianna had online and how this impacted her life. What our organisation is doing to combat these issues.

Jools’ Law: A Mother’s Fight for Truth and Safer Digital Childhoods

After losing her son, Ellen uncovered critical gaps in how online data is accessed following a child’s death. She shares her journey, the reality of digital harms, and why urgent legislative change is needed to protect children and support families seeking answers.

This session marks the formal launch of the ECHO Survivor Hub - a new, groundbreaking initiative transforming the response to survivors of CSA whose images have been shared online. ECHO Survivor Hub will actively search for and remove survivors' imagery from circulation, support law enforcement to engage with survivors, amplify survivors’ voices in criminal proceedings, increase survivors' awareness of compensation options, and offer access to dedicated peer support digital resources. The project will launch in the UK, with an ambition to go globally.

This presentation will outline the clinical harms witnessed by healthcare workers from online content and social media use, using case studies and evidence based research. In addition it will give guidance on how to spot warning signs of harmful online use.

Glen Pounder will outline an approach to preventing online harms by equipping parents and young people with clear, practical information. The session will explore how youth‑serving organizations, working in partnership with families, communities, and allied organizations, can address online risk early while reducing fear and stigma around digital safety.

Deterrence messaging is vital for disrupting offender pathways. This session covers clear web work by Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept and deterrence messaging on the dark web by Protect Children. We examine how targeted interventions across digital environments effectively steer individuals away from harmful behaviours and towards support services.

Neurodivergence is increasingly recognised, yet its role in online harms remains underexplored. This presentation examines its growing presence in cases of radicalisation and exploitation online, and why it is often overlooked. It offers practical, evidence-informed insights to help police, teachers, and social workers better recognise risk and strengthen safeguarding responses.

This session presents findings from an anonymous self-report survey of over 20,000 adults seeking child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, offering rare insight into perpetrator behaviour. The research responds to an evidence gap on how perpetrators navigate the online ecosystem, in particular the technologies, platforms, and features that shape behaviour.

Traditional CSAM datasets capture scale but lack insight into the pathways critical for prevention. This session introduces novel behavioural data offering an unfiltered view of offending. By moving beyond self-reports and arrest statistics, we explore how novel datasets can transform our understanding and proactively inform future prevention efforts.

This session will discuss a recent case study which identified a worrying new model of commercialisation of CSA, which then fed into more niche Online Sadistic Exploitation Groups. The speaker will discuss the issues this raised for policing and the difficulties, in both suspect and victim rehabilitation, along with the worrying normalisation of self-generated child sexual abuse material which stemmed from this.

Structured evaluation of the NPCC’s Test and Learn project with Devon & Cornwall Police. Securium-Safeguard was deployed within D&C operational POLIT environment to assess consistency, repeatability, and investigative value when analysing overwhelming volumes of CSE conversations. Outcomes included significant time savings such as 36 hours saved in a single case.

*Session closed to LEA only*

Drawing on the global Our Voice survivor survey, this research report compares the long-term negative impacts of online child sexual abuse with offline abuse. It highlights survivors’ experiences, providing insights to guide prevention and deliver survivor-centred support for those affected by technology-facilitated child sexual abuse.

Where are the boys? Despite evidence of harm, boys remain less visible in online sexual abuse imagery. This session examines whether this reflects reality or systemic blind spots in detection and reporting, inviting audience insight to challenge assumptions and help define a future research agenda

Families caring for survivors of child sexual abuse face immense barriers, from systemic failures to pervasive stigma and shame. This trauma ripples through generations, leaving families unsupported for decades. Embrace CVoC are helping to lead the fight for change, challenging these failures and building the foundation for change.