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abuse. General and specialist facilities are available to provide such assistance, for young children, older
children and parents of children. However, the provision of assistance is barely designed for the possibility
that the abuse takes place within the context of child pornography. There is little awareness of the possibility
that the sexual abuse of children goes hand in hand with the production of images of this abuse, and that
this forms an additional dimension of being a victim of sexual abuse, which requires integrated treatment.
Associated with this, little is also known about the consequences of the distribution and possession of
material that constitutes child pornography for the children who are victims of this offense, and for their
parents, and few programmes of assistance exist that are directed at these aspects of being a victim. In
more general terms, little is specifically known about being a victim of sexual violence via the Internet,
or about the inter-relatedness that may exist between sexual abuse and online sexual violence. Besides a
few reporting and chat sites on the Internet, little in the way of assistance is on offer for victims of online
sexual violence in the age group from twelve years upwards.
The system of care provisions needs to form connections between offline and online forms of being a
victim of sexual abuse, and expertise needs to be built up with regard to effective methods and techniques
for the treatment of the consequences of online sexual violence.
4.2.3.8 Public-private sector partnerships
Various public-private sector partnerships existing in the Netherlands and in other countries are in the
process of developing a variety of initiatives in order to combat child pornography. A possible focus and
associated strategies can be derived from these interventions. It is therefore advisable to secure publicprivate
sector partnerships – once again – within a platform, where the various forces at play can come
together and can jointly give direction to this partnership.
Since the blocking of child abuse material in the Netherlands was not implemented, the Internet Safety
Platform of ECP-EPN no longer has an active working group that promotes public-private sector partnerships
in the field of child pornography. A similar consultative body could boost and give direction to
public-private sector partnerships, and at the same time develop new initiatives and reinforce existing
initiatives. One central point could also form a point of contact and assembly for public-private sector
partnerships and best practices from other countries. The Internet Safety Platform of ECP-EPN, which
hosts the Blocking <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> and Notice and Take-down working groups, is an obvious choice
to give direction to public-private sector partnerships. In order to prevent initiatives from interfering
with the focus of the police or overlapping with the barrier model that is currently being developed, coordination
with the Programme of Improvements in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> is desirable.
It may well be that alongside the current Internet Safety Platform and the Programme of Improvements
in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong>, the <strong>National</strong> Cyber Security Centre can provide opportunities to encourage
public-private sector partnerships with regard to child pornography The Internet community should
also become more structurally involved in the efforts to tackle child pornography.
4.3 Connections
In the foregoing sections, conclusions have been presented with regard to the constituent processes that
form part of the implementation of the child pornography policy. However, not everything has been
covered here. It is also necessary to investigate the extent to which connections have been made between