CITY MP Diana Johnson has urged the Government to draw up plans for "co-ordinated action" to tackle child abuse.
The Hull North MP has stepped up her long-running campaign to clamp down on internet abuse following a summit of internet service providers (ISPs) in London.
Ms Johnson said: "There are a number of areas where action is needed to better protect young people from sex abuse.
"The criminal justice system needs reforming to give victims the support they need, and we need to ensure the expertise of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) is not lost.
"I'm also calling for compulsory sex and relationship education in all our schools to equip children with the life skills to recognise abusive behaviour.
"And we need to learn the lessons from the sex exploitation scandals in Rochdale and Rotherham as well as historic cases such as Jimmy Savile.
"There are now more than ten such inquiries and reports ongoing. The Home Secretary needs to bring these together so it can lead to co-ordinated action across a range of institutions."
Yesterday, Culture Secretary Maria Miller said the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) would be asked to work closely with the CEOP Centre to search for and block abusive images of children.
Mrs Miller said: "Until now, action has only been taken by the IWF when a child sexual abuse image is reported. Now, for the first time, the IWF has been asked to work alongside CEOP to search for illegal and abusive images and block them.
"The abuse of children is absolutely abhorrent – and that child is further violated every single time an image is circulated and viewed. The IWF and CEOP already do important and valuable work.
"This agreement will mean these organisations will no longer be limited to reacting to reports received. They will now have the remit and the resources to take the fight to the criminals perpetrating these vile acts."
At the summit, the UK's leading ISPs – Virgin Media, BSkyB, BT and TalkTalk – committed to providing a further £1m to help tackle the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material online.
The companies also signed up to a "zero-tolerance" pledge on child sexual abuse imagery.
But Ms Johnson said the action agreed at the summit was not enough.
"There are a whole range of actions that internet companies could take now," she said. "But the Government met the industry and decided to introduce only a few of them – and not until 2018."
