NSPCC Learning has published an updated statistics briefing on online abuse and harm. This briefing looks at the available data and statistics, as well as Freedom of Information requests to the Home Office, about online abuse and harm to help professionals, and the organisations they work for, make evidence-based decisions. Findings include: over 9,000 child sexual abuse offences involved an online element in 2023/24; and under 18-year-olds were the subject of around a quarter of reported offences of online blackmail.

Online harm and abuse: statistics briefing