Dear Friends and colleagues involved in Safeguarding Young People,
FAO: All persons working with Young People
In April this year, the Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre Jim Gamble, met with representatives of Facebook to raise concerns about the safety of many of their young users and to highlight the lack of reports to UK police from the Facebook environment.
This position was supported by senior colleagues across UK policing, many of whom put their name to a letter from ACPO calling on Facebook to place the ‘ClickCEOP’ button on the profile page of all its users. This step would undoubtedly make Facebook a safer environment by enabling children to access help and advice about online safety and to make a report directly to CEOP if necessary.
While Facebook were initially unwilling to embed the ‘ClickCEOP’ button in the site, CEOP and Facebook have now developed an application which will enable users to download the button and place it within their profiles. While this stops short of the original request for the button to appear automatically within all user profiles, it nonetheless has the potential to make young people safer in this environment.
I would ask that everyone working with Young People, with Facebook pages and profiles add the ClickCEOP app to their profiles – visit www.facebook.com/ceop to do this. Please encourage all your Young People to also download this link.
This app will give Facebook users direct access to advice and guidance should they ever need it, as well as a link to report concerns directly to CEOP. The app will be live in the Facebook environment from Monday 12 July.
If you have any queries, please get in touch with the CEOP Corporate Communications Team on 0870 000 3434 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Yours faithfully
Inspector Julia POTTS
Daventry Sector Commander