Report a nude image online

You can use the following ID to confirm your identity using Yoti: 

• UK passport
• driver's license and provisional license
• citizencard.

If you don't have any of these, you can get a young person's ID card. You'll be able to get this for £5 with the promo code NSPCC5.

A nude image must include one of the following to be removed: 

• nude or semi nude sexual posing
• someone nude or semi nude touching themselves in a sexual way
• any sexual activity involving a child
• someone hurting someone else sexually
• sexual activity that includes animals.

Yes, Yoti is safe. Any personal data you send Yoti - like your photo, date of birth or address - is scrambled with a high level of encryption so that even if it was stolen, no one could use it to identify you. 

If you don't have Yoti you'll be asked to download it to your phone when you make a report.

IWF will read all reports within one working day, from Monday to Friday. But the time it takes to get your image removed from the internet can vary depending on where the image is hosted. 

If the image is on a UK-based website it can often be removed within 2-3 hours. Unfortunately, in some countries it can take longer - sometimes days or weeks. But IWF analysts will always try to make sure it happens as soon as possible.

We'll do our best to let you know once your image has been removed by sending a message to your Childline locker. However this might not always be possible.

When you use Report Remove, your image or video is shared with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). They'll work with the police to get your image removed from the internet.

Most of the time, nobody will know that you've made a report and it won't be shared with anyone else.

If the police already have the image or video you report, then they might investigate what's happened. Only the police can decide if they'll need to tell someone else.

The police might already have your image or video if:

• someone has reported it on another website and that website passed it to the police
• they're investigating someone who had or has the image or video already
• someone else reported the image to them directly.

Remember that the police are there to protect you, not to get you into trouble. If the image has been reported somewhere else and you're worried, you can always speak to a Childline counsellor.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) are there to help remove nude images of under 18s posted online.

There are lots of ways to get help with your report:

• if you’re having problems with Yoti, you can contact them directly in the app.
• if you need any support with making your report send a message to Childline with the title ‘Report Remove’.

Childline counsellors are always here for you and want to help. And you can talk to them about anything you’re going through.