Recommendation 12

There is a gap in the UK’s online regulatory framework for a statutory body to support and champion the rights of individuals affected by non- consensual intimate image abuse, and to work alongside the courts in the civil regime. Such a body is required to help ensure victims are able to secure redress and to oversee the registry of NCII content that we recommend is introduced. Ofcom’s remit is already very wide, and its enforcement mechanisms are designed to act at too a high level for this function - it is ill-suited to the further responsibilities that are required. Existing Commissions, such as the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, do not have the powers or expertise to fulfil such a role. (Conclusion, Paragraph 75)