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You Are Not Alone

If something online has made you feel worried, upset, pressured or unsafe, it is not your fault. This page can help you understand what may have happened, find support, and know what to do next.

Immediate Help

If something has happened online and you need help now, these services can support you.

CEOP
CEOP

CEOP are part of the police and is a service specialising in dealing with online abuse. They can help you in reporting what is happening and their child protection advisors will make sure you get the help you may need.

Go To CEOP Website
Childline
Childline

Talk to a counsellor about anything on your mind — by phone, online chat, or message — and get support in a way that feels comfortable for you.

Go to Childline Website
Report Remove
Report Remove

It can be scary finding out a nude image or video of you has been shared online. But there is a way that you can get your image or video removed from the internet.

Go To Report Remove Website

Understanding What’s Happened

These links below can help you make sense of what may have happened, think about telling a trusted adult, understand some common worries, and find support that is right for your age. 

More Support

If you need more help, these organisations may be able to support you too.

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Young Minds

If you’re struggling with your feelings, you're not alone. YoungMinds have loads of practical tips and advice from young people just like you, as well as information on getting the support you need.

VISIT
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Paprus

Support if you’re having suicidal thoughts or feel like you can’t cope — advisers help you focus on staying safe and finding a way forward.

VISIT
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Stem 4

Mental health apps and tools to help manage anxiety, low mood and urges to self-harm.

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Don't Suffer in Silence

About the Marie Collins Foundation

Who We Are

The Marie Collins Foundation is made up of specialist workers who understand about online sexual abuse and other forms of sexual harms that can happen through phones, apps, social media, games consoles, and other forms of technology. We call this Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse (TACSA). 

We have a lot of experience with working with children, young people and adults who have been sexually harmed and often help the young person or their families on their recovery journey after this abuse. 

We know it is never the young person’s fault, despite what others may think or say, and we work hard to ensure that everybody else understands this too. The staff at the Marie Collins Foundation are committed to ensuring no further harm is done to a child who has been sexually abused.

 

Who we are
What We Do

What We Do

We help children, young people, and their families to recover from the hurt that has been caused.  

We do this by ‘advocacy’ which means that we can support people in expressing their views, and what they would like to happen. As advocates we can also help people know what support they are entitled to and help to challenge other professionals if they are not doing what they should be doing. 

The other way we help is though education. We teach people who work with children by training them on how best to help a child who has been affected by sexual abuse. We also create resources for them to look at which can help them to help children and families who have been sexually harmed. 

 

We also:

  • Talk to people who make the laws and decisions on how best to respond to sexual abuse that happens online or via technology.
  • Where we think that the ways in which people help families are wrong, we will tell them the better way to help people.
  • Ask people that have been harmed online how they would have liked to have been helped. We then tell this to other people working with children so they can do this in future to help other children and young people. 

 

We also:

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