Research undertaken by the charity Barnardos, found that almost one in five girls in the UK receive persistent, unwanted images online. In its survey of 4000 young people a quarter of girls had been called degrading names and one in seven had been asked to send nude images of themselves folowing contacts online.
Barnardo’s frontline practitioners reported that they were seeing more children affected by misogynistic content online, and an increase in child-on-child sexual abuse or children displaying problematic sexual behaviour, compared with last year.
Read the full report here.
