NSPCC has revealed the top five platforms children talked about in Childline counselling sessions where they also spoke about online sexual abuse.
Between April 2025 and March 2026, Snapchat was mentioned in 324 counselling sessions where a young person also spoke about their experience of online sexual abuse – a 19% increase on the previous year.
TikTok (234 mentions), Instagram (197 mentions), Discord (92 mentions) and WhatsApp (39 mentions) have been named as the other top platforms mentioned in counselling sessions where online sexual abuse was the main concern, during the same period.
In fact, online sexual abuse has been the most commonly discussed concern in Childline counselling where Snapchat and Instagram were mentioned over the past three years.
Earlier this month, Childline revealed the top ten platforms children talked about in all Childline counselling sessions last year. In total there were over 5,500 mentions of these sites, with 15% of sessions mentioning online sexual abuse as the main concern.