Child Exploitation & Online Protection
CEOP is short for Child Exploitation and Online Protection
Please click the link below to access the CEOP website and report a concern.
CEOP helps keep children and young people safe from sexual abuse and grooming online. They help thousands of children and young people every year.They are here to help and give people advice and you can make a report directly to them if something has happened online which has made you feel unsafe, scared or worried. This might be from someone you know in real life, or someone you have only ever met online.
If you make a report to them it will be read by one of our Child Protection Advisors who will get in contact with you on the phone number or email address that you give to them to make sure that you are safe and to discuss with you what will happen next.
We work with together with many other professionals whose jobs are also to make sure you are safe, including other police agencies who have specialist skills. If a crime has been committed we will work together to identify the person or people responsible and bring them into the criminal justice system.
- CEOP operates a 24/7 service for the receipt of reports
- Reports can be made to the CEOP by a young person or on their behalf by a parent or carer or professional working with these groups
- Children under 11 years old are encouraged to tell an adult that they trust about what has happened and to ask for their help in reporting this to either the CEOP or the police
- All reports to CEOP are reported as reports of crime and as such anonymous reports cannot be accepted
- Please click on the link below to report a concern to CEOPhttps://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/