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Starting Monday 13 May this year’s theme focuses on movement: moving more for our mental health. One in four people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England, and it can affect anyone.

Ian Critchley QPM, National Policing Lead for Child Protection, has responded to Ofcom online safety proposals.

The NSPCC has partnered with Life Lessons to launch a new framework for secondary school leaders to support them in delivering sex and relationships in education.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) and police chiefs in Europe expressed their ‘deep’ concern that end-to-end encryption is being rolled out in a way that undermines their ability to investigate crime and keep the public safe and the NPCC has responded.

Responding to the report, National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for Child Protection Ian Critchley QPM, said: “The work of the IWF is crucial in the identification, removal and reporting of child sexual abuse material. 

“Working together to provide hope and light to those who have lived in darkness and despair” - that’s the message from policing’s child protection lead, Ian Critchley QPM, following the Vulnerability and Exploitation Conference 2024.

As the scale of online harms affecting children in the UK continues to rise, Ian Critchley QPM the NPCC Lead for Child Abuse and Investigation, has joined professionals to further inform Government Ministers of the stark realities facing children and young people in the online realm.

National Police Chief's Lead for Child Protection and Abuse, Ian Critchley QPM on the progress policing has made in child sexual abuse and exploitation investigation, and why belief is at the heart of this. 

A series of Instagram posts have been created to engage with children and young people in relation to child sexual exploitation (CSE).

His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has released the findings of its inspection into the effectiveness of the police and law enforcement bodies’ response to group-based child sexual exploitation today (8 December).

The Hydrant Programme provided peer support to South Wales Police as they investigated one of their own officers. Today he has been sentenced to life for blackmailing underage girls to send explicit photos