A Tangled Web: Rethinking the approach to online CSEA

The online CSEA threat is evolving fast. Our society’s social web culture and the global proliferation of high speed, low cost internet access has created a unique threat, increasing the exposure of victims and enabling unprecedented levels of offending.

A unified, consistent and cost-effective approach is especially challenging given the collective response draws on a diverse and highly complex stakeholder landscape.

While there is a growing and understandable clamour for action to better protect our children online, and a Government pledge to enact new legislation, the sophistication of the threat and complexity of the response landscape calls for a re-think of the way we collectively respond.