We identify opportunities to change law and policy, then build focused campaigns around them.
When a Bill, review or consultation touches our issues, we work to strengthen it and ensure overlooked harms are addressed.
Where the existing political agenda falls short, we develop practical proposals and build support for change.
We build relationships with MPs, peers, officials and regulators, helping them understand the evidence and the wider realities of sexual exploitation.
We respond to consultations and calls for evidence, bringing together relevant research, lived experience and CEASE’s analysis.
We bring organisations and individuals together, amplify good work already under way and build the wider support needed for lasting change.
Implement agreed reforms to pornography law and regulation, including age and ongoing consent checks for people featured in pornography and consistent standards online and offline.
The Review found policy fragmented across six government departments and multiple regulators, with no single body taking responsibility, and it made 32 recommendations. Government has accepted the principle of consistent regulation online and offline, but on our count 19 of those recommendations including a single enforcement body and a duty on platforms to prevent illegal content being uploaded at all, remain outstanding (CEASE analysis, September 2026).
The evidence has been gathered and accepted. What is left is implementation.
Make age assurance, platform duties and device-level protections work in practice, and restrict commercial platforms’ access to children.
This is not a ban on children, and no child or parent would face any penalty. It is a limit on Big Tech's access to children. Platforms built around livestreaming, disappearing content and contact with strangers have had their chance to make those features safe.
The price of access to children should be safety by design, and it should be set by Parliament rather than by the platforms themselves.
If a building is structurally unsafe, we do not wait for someone to be injured before restricting access. We keep people out while it is repaired.
Prevent third-party websites from advertising, facilitating and profiting from the prostitution of others.
Tobacco, gambling and alcohol are all held to standards of transparency, advertising restraint and public health accountability. The commercial sex industry is not.
That exemption is not a law of nature. It is a policy choice, and it can be reversed.
Tackle the demand that drives prostitution by criminalising sex buying and providing properly resourced routes out.
We support the Nordic Model, which targets the purchase of sex rather than criminalising the people being sold. We state that plainly because we would rather be argued with than assumed about.
Develop a joined-up approach that reflects the industry’s effects on public health, violence against women and girls, children, relationships and wider culture.
CEASE strongly welcomes the Government's decisive action to raise the age of access to 16 for social media.
Working in the area of sexual abuse, harm and exploitation, there is no shortage of alarming statistics and bad news, so good news is both rare and welcome.
CEASE is really pleased to see the Government have taken onboard recommendations from Baroness Bertin’s Independent Pornography Review and tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing bill which will give it…
The times certainly are a-changing for the pornography industry, and this time it is for the betterment of society.
CEASE welcomes the release of the Independent Pornography Review and the recommendations outlined by Lead Reviewer Baroness Bertin.
I have a difficult job, we all do at CEASE. We have to dig into some of the most horrific and depraved areas of humanity.
Lasting political change rarely comes from one organisation acting alone. CEASE works with charities, specialists, survivors and other organisations to build support around shared policy goals.
Lauren is our Head of Policy and Public Affairs. she leads CEASE’s relationships with parliamentarians, officials, regulators and partner organisations.
For parliamentary or policy enquiries, contact Lauren at lauren.agnew@cease.org.uk
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