The Stop It Now! helpline, the UK’s only anonymous helpline that supports people worried about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts or behaviour towards children, is urging men to be careful of their pornography viewing habits, as insights show that developing an interest in more extreme porn is a common pathway into online offending…

By Donald Findlater, director of The Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s Stop It Now! UK and Ireland helpline You might have noticed media coverage about how many registered sex offenders change their names. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s focus is to prevent child sexual abuse and we work with statutory and non-statutory partners to support all reasonable steps…

People trying to view sexual images of children online will trigger a first-of-its-kind chatbot, which has launched to help potential offenders stop their behaviour. The reThink chatbot, which has launched on adult website Pornhub, will engage with adult pornography users attempting to search for sexual imagery of children. It will then engage users in a…

As we celebrate 30 years of The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, we look back at the life of our founder. Find out more about our history in our anniversary booklet. Our founder: Baroness Lucy Faithfull OBE (1910 – 1996) The Foundation was the inspiration of Baroness Lucy Faithfull – the ‘mother to hundreds’ who dedicated her life to…

Read the key stats from our first Faithfull Papers about the impact of the live chat since its launch in lockdown in 2020.

We’re urging people to get support to stop viewing sexual images of under 18s online, after new data shows a significant increase in the number of contacts to our helpline and visits to our self-help website during the campaign’s 20th anniversary year.

Read our top tips to help keep your child safe from sexual abuse, online and offline.

We are proud to announce that our #GetHelpOrGetCaught campaign in collaboration with Police Scotland won ‘Campaign of the Year’ at the 2021 Scottish Charity Awards. The campaign aimed to prevent adults grooming children online, providing access to anonymous self-help support to stop further harm.

The brave and public disclosure of historic abuse by a professional football player led to hundreds of other complaints by players in the professional and amateur game. There is lots we can take away from this disclosure to help keep children safe from abuse in sport and other clubs, with better disclosure schemes, educating children on what is acceptable behaviour and ensuring adults know how to spot the signs of abuse.

Despite the pandemic, the Stop It Now! helpline had its busiest year ever in 2020, handling more than 12,500 contacts – up from 10,700 in 2019. We have mainly had calls from people concerned about their own or someone else’s online behaviour, and our encouraging those in a similar situation to call and get anonymous support.