By Lauren Agnew, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, CEASE If I’m honest, when I first started exploring the conversation around raising the age of access to social media, I was on the fence. I strongly support safety by design:…
By Lauren Agnew, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, CEASE CEASE strongly welcomes the Government’s decisive action to raise the age of access to 16 for social media. Although staunch proponents of safety by design, we recognise the need for…
By Naomi Miles, CEO, CEASE Working in the area of sexual abuse, harm and exploitation, there is no shortage of alarming statistics and bad news, so good news is both rare and welcome. And here it is: the UK is…
By Lauren Agnew, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, CEASE CEASE is really pleased to see the Government have taken onboard recommendations from Baroness Bertin’s Independent Pornography Review and tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing bill which will give it the power to force pornography…
by Naomi Miles, CEO, CEASE Let’s get these fundamental safeguards over the line! Force porn sites to verify age and consent, Ministers told We are launching a campaign calling for Age and Consent checks for all online pornography. The proposal is…
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs The times certainly are a-changing for the pornography industry and this time it is for the betterment of society. In May, Germany’s Berlin Administrative Court upheld a “network ban” on Pornhub…
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs I wish my job didn’t exist. I wish there was no need for CEASE and other organisations like us campaigning to end sexual exploitation. But we are still needed and my…
By Gemma Kelly Head of Policy and Public Affairs for CEASE CEASE welcomes the release of the Independent Pornography Review and the recommendations outlined by Lead Reviewer Baroness Bertin. Baroness Bertin’s review has called time on the pornography industry’s blatant…
By Naomi Miles, Chair and Founder of CEASE January is a hard month. And for those of us who knew Dr Lucie Moore, CEASE’s Chief Executive who died from a sudden cardiac arrest late last year, it is especially hard. …
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, CEASE On Thursday 16th January 2025, Ofcom published its guidance on age verification for pornography sites that fall under Part 5 of the Online Safety Act 2023. These are websites that…