The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
The Public Safety Group’s role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our police, fire and rescue services are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services. We work with our partners in other government departments, local government and the voluntary sector to develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation.
The Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Unit (TCSAU), which sits within the Tackling Exploitation and Abuse Directorate in PSG, is responsible for leading the Government’s response to child sexual abuse, with a remit that cuts across serious and organised crime, law enforcement, national security, and social policy. The work of the unit is high-profile, and it is a supportive, empowering, and collaborative unit to work in.
This role is in the Industry Team. This post is new and will principally involve taking forward implementation of a Trusted Research Environment – a secure environment to house sensitive Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) data for industry to use to develop tools to identify and detect online CSEA. This is new project which is critical to make a success of implementation of the Online Safety Act, for which Ofcom is the regulator.
The role will involve cross-government working and engagement with industry, law enforcement and civil society partners. You will also get the opportunity to work with Ofcom to align this work with Ofcom’s new online regulatory functions. There will be significant technical and legal challenges to this work, which will also involve extensive stakeholder engagement in presenting the Trusted Research Environment for use by the safety tech industry. The post will also require a self-starter with an ability to quickly grasp and understand complex and often technical information and utilise this to develop and inform their policy position and rationale.
The role will also involve work to do with: successful implementation of the Online Safety Act; development of new online safety policy; and consideration of legal issues and law enforcement processes, in connection with identifying and reporting online CSEA.
This role will give the post holder the opportunity to experience the work of implementing a top government policy priority, working in a sensitive and often fast-paced environment to deliver across government and through and with external stakeholders.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
* Coordinate law enforcement agencies holding relevant data for the Trusted Research Environment.
* Broker cross-government agreement where necessary, given crossover with DSIT work.
* Oversight of legal and technical challenges.
* Engagement with law enforcement to understand the reporting of online CSEA to law enforcement.
* Engagement with tech industry as necessary.
* Awareness and understanding of the bigger picture of the fast moving online safety environment.
Please note that the list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder will need to be flexible in light of changing Ministerial priorities.
In addition, the post holder will be expected to work flexibly and may be asked to provide support on wider Group priorities as needed.
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