Intervention

The Protech Podcast

This podcast series explores the Protech project, its goals and results, along with broader initiatives to enhance the response to online child sexual abuse and exploitation.

Funded by the European Union

A revolutionary new safety tech podcast

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The Protech project is a groundbreaking, EU-funded study exploring how safety tech could be used to stop the viewing of child sexual abuse imagery on people’s devices.

Child sexual abuse material is spreading on the internet at shocking levels and identifying ways to block the demand for abuse imagery is a pivotal part of efforts to protect children.

The two-year project is conducting a real-life pilot study in the EU and the UK – with individuals who are at risk of viewing online child sexual abuse imagery.

In this podcast series we’re discussing the Protech project, its aims and outcomes, as well as wider efforts to improve the response to child sexual abuse and exploitation online by reducing the demand for child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Episode 1: Prevention is child protection

This podcast speaks openly about child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.

Child sexual abuse material is rampant on the internet and efforts to remove the imagery can seem like a drop in the ocean when faced with the sea of criminal content that is being actively viewed and distributed on the open web. This can be devastating for survivors, who are repeatedly victimised every time images of their abuse are shared online.

In Episode 1 of the Intervention podcast we discuss how stopping people from viewing and distributing videos and images of child sexual abuse is critical as part of a holistic approach to tackling the issue. Working with volunteers who want to learn to stop their risky behaviour is a vital aspect of this intervention.

Listen to experts Vicky Young, Head of Stop it Now UK, the helpline for the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, and Minne De Boeck, a criminologist at the University Forensic Centre at Antwerp University Hospital (UZA), both members of the Protech consortium. We also hear from Rhiannon McDonald, Head of Advocacy at the Marie Collins Foundation for her vital insight into the survivor perspective. This podcast speaks openly about child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.