New ‘CEOP Report button’ available::

Over the last three years, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre have received thousands of reports relating to inappropriate sexual behaviour in online environments from a variety of sources, including UK and overseas law enforcement, the commercial and online sectors, NGOs and the public. 

The public reports are sent into the Centre using the unique ‘Report Abuse’ button. Promoted on thousands of websites and signposted through CEOP’s Thinkuknow education campaign in schools, the ‘Report Abuse’ button has allowed users to report, in confidence to CEOP, inappropriate contact and suspicious online activity and provides a direct click-through access to a whole suite of advice and guidance on issues that now range from grooming, cyber bullying, viruses and more. 

As children and parents have been empowered with the ability to report to CEOP, many offenders have been held to account and children protected from abuse. 

With the online world being a particularly dynamic environment, CEOP’s reporting facility has now been refreshed in order to remain contemporary and relevant. To this end, there is now a new name – ‘CEOP Report’ – and a new look and feel. 

By listening to young users and parents alike, the Centre has restructured the whole process so visitors are provided with a one-stop shop that fundamentally gives users click-throughs to a whole range of advice and guidance. 

Organisations throughout the UK have come forward over the past three years to embed the button in their own websites and the Centre would welcome all organisations that provide services to children, parents and the public in general to carry the ‘CEOP Report’ button. 

If your organisation already carries the button or is thinking of installing the new button, you can download this new design by visiting http://www.ceop.police.uk/digitallibrary where you can also access a range of downloads that will direct your users to sources of help and advice.