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Issues surrounding child sexual abuse are regularly featured in the UK media. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation provides comment and advice to journalists and media professionals on these issues and we regularly feature in related articles.
Suffering caused by child sex abuse motivates Epsom woman to run marathon
Local Guardian, April 15 and This is Local London
Police detections of child porn images increases by 48%
BBC News, February 23 2013
Can child porn users be treated?
BBC Online, February 23 2013
Would you befriend a paedophile?
BBC News London, February 15 2013
Staffordshire Police doubles child exploitation team
BBC News Stoke & Staffordshire, February 11 2013
Loughton proposes tighter controls to prevent child abuse in entertainment industry
Children and Young People Now, January 11 2013
The charity dedicated to tackling child sexual abuse has called for a new national strategy led by the Government
Politics Home, January 11 2013
Paedophilia: bringing dark desires to light
Guardian, January 3 2013
Government urged to develop national child sexual abuse strategy
Children and Young People Now, December 20 2012
Boys get their sex education from pornography, MPs say
The Telegraph, December 20 2012
Record number of calls to child sexual abuse Helpline
This is South Wales, December 20 2012
Charities urge action to tackle child sexual abuse
The Guardian, December 19 2012
Generation sex: teenagers fall foul of law
Channel 4 News, December 12 2012
Young teenagers 'turned into criminals by sex texts': Increasing numbers being arrested with many ending up on sex offenders' register
Daily Mail, December 12, 201
BBC scandal exposes cover-up of host Jimmy Savile's pedophilia, fueling public broadcaster's foes
Democracy NOW!, November 13, 2012
Campaign launched to better protect Suffolk children from sexual abuse
Diss Express, November 8, 2012
Preventing children from sexual abuse
Suffolk police news, November 6, 2012
Conference will launch campaign to fight child sex abuse
BuryFreePress, November 6, 2012
If every one of us is vigilant we can stop the next Savile
The Independent, October 28, 2012
To keep children safe we must look beyond the BBC
The Guardian, October 24, 2012
Savile police files from 2009 to be reviewed
Sky News, October 24, 2012
'Patchy' support for families of child porn suspects
Radio 1 Newsbeat, August 15, 2012
Police help parents spot child abuse on own homes
Scotsman, July 31, 2012
Online child abuse images 'becoming more extreme, sadistic and violent'
Guardian, 14 June, 2012
Call for action over 'intra-familial' child sex abuse
BBC News, 10 April, 2012
Plea to police over lost offenders
This is London, 18 February, 2012
Metropolitan Police lose track of 123 sex offenders
BBC News, 18 February 2012
Government announces child exploitation action plan
Channel 4 News, November 23, 2011
Dealing with sexually harmful behaviour in children
Community Care, October 24, 2011
Convictions for sex offences on children up 60% in six years
BBC News, September 2, 2011
Nursery worker pleads guilty to abuse
Channel 4, June7, 2011
This is not the way to keep us safe from offenders
Guardian, February 18, 2011
When is a sex offender not a risk
BBC News, February 16, 2011
Son "had no idea" he committed abuse
Radio 4, December 2, 2010
Yorkshire roll out Circles UK paedophile scheme
BBC Look North, November 15, 2010
How social workers can best help the partners of child abusers
Community Care, October 24, 2010
Mixed reactions after Pope Benedict says paedophilia is 'illness'
The Times, September 16, 2010
Only patchy services available for young sex abusers
Community Care. August 10, 2010
Probation staff admit to serious failures over sex offenders
Guardian, June 23, 2010
Befriending paedophiles
BBC 5 Live, April 21, 2010
Courts rapped for giving 'too short' jail terms to paedophiles who offend online
Observer, March 26, 2010
Facebook fears after sex offender logged on to murder
The Independent, March 9, 2010
Nine years jail for woman who abused schoolboy
The Northern Echo, February 27, 2010
Why would I want to sleep with a teacher?
Observer, December 2, 2009