By Natasha Sabin, practice improvement advisor, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
Offences involving the viewing of child sexual abuse material are on the rise in part due to the ease with which indecent images can be viewed and shared online.
In 2022/23, more than 40,000 child sexual abuse image offences were recorded by the police in England and Wales. This figure is 115 per cent higher than it was six years ago.
Some of those images were shared by children and young people but the majority of offenders were adults, many with children of their own.
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