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Sensitivity and access procedures
  • Access to personal and sensitive information: Internal Procedural Manual
  • Sensitivity Criteria
    • Overview of workflow
    • 2.1 Due diligence
    • 2.2 Personal data
    • 2.3 Business sensitivity
      • 2.3.1 Identifying business sensitive information
      • 2.3.2 Determining the appropriate access status
    • 2.4 Cultural sensitivity
    • 2.5 Distressing or offensive content
    • 2.6 Child sexual abuse material
      • 2.6.1 What is child sexual abuse material?
        • 2.6.1.1 What is an 'indecent' image?
      • 2.6.2 Who are we safeguarding?
      • 2.6.3 Relevant legislation
        • 2.6.3.1 Wellcome's position
      • 2.6.4 Staff welfare and safeguarding
      • 2.6.5 How to flag CSAM or potential CSAM
      • 2.6.6 Cataloguing
      • 2.6.7 Requests for access
        • 2.6.7.1 Facilitation of onsite access
      • 2.6.8 Digitisation and take down
  • Managing Access
    • Undertaking sensitivity review
      • Further guidance on the personal data flowchart
      • Restriction and closure periods
      • Redaction
      • Catalogue titles and descriptions
      • CALM fields
        • Assigning OrderingCodes
      • Sierra fields
        • Sierra Access Status+Conditions
      • Documenting decisions
      • Packaging physical material
    • Access Status Options
      • Safeguarded access
      • Access conditions statements
      • Changes to the access status
        • Temporary changes to the access status
        • Permanent changes to the access status
        • January openings
      • Missing & Withdrawn Items
    • Access Exceptions
    • Access to Uncatalogued Collections
    • Access to NHS Records
  • Access and Copying Conditions
    • Access and copying conditions
  • Online Access
    • Assessment for online access
  • Access Appeals
    • Access appeals process
  • Collections, Access, Diversity and Inclusion forum (CADI)
    • About the forum
    • Resources
    • Topics
      • Child Sexual Abuse Material
      • Working with communities and academics
      • Content Advisories
      • By Appointment
      • Participatory cataloguing
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  1. Sensitivity Criteria
  2. 2.6 Child sexual abuse material

2.6.3 Relevant legislation

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There are three main offence-creating legal provisions that relate to child sexual abuse material:

Data Protection legislation will also be considered if the subjects of the material are alive, or if access is likely to cause substantial damage or distress to their surviving direct descendants.

What is prohibited by law?

  • The possession of indecent images.

  • The making of indecent images, which includes the viewing and subsequent download to a device on which it is viewed.

  • The distribution or showing of indecent images, which is the intentional sharing of an image known to be indecent.

  • The production of indecent images, which includes the actual taking or making of a photograph or production of a film.

When are non-photo / pseudo-photographic images prohibited?

  • They are produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal.

  • They are grossly offensive or obscene.

  • They focus solely or primarily on the subject's genitals or anal region.

  • They show a penetrative or non-penetrative sexual act with or in the presence of a child.

Protection of Children Act 1978
Criminal Justice Act 1988
Coroners and Justice Act 2009