In March 1997 PressWise organised the Child Exploitation and the Media Forum in association with the UK charity Action on Child Exploitation and some 40 other statutory bodies and NGOs, as part of the UK's response to the Stockholm World Congress Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (1996).

The Report and Recommendations of Elizabeth Lawson QC, who chaired the event, proved to be extremely influential in the revision of the guidelines issued by the Broadcasting Standards Commission and other UK regulators.

The Forum Documentation is available on request from PressWise.

Contents

• Recommendations of the Forum Panel by Elizabeth Lawson QC
• Summary of proceedings by Denise Searle
• Child Exploitation and the Media: Over-exposure or cover-up? by Mike Jempson & David Niven. 
• Declaration and Agenda for Action
  World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, 28 August 1996.
• Forum Documentation
  Details of the 36 papers submitted in evidence.

The full report can be downloaded here:
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