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The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) was established on Monday 8 September 2014 following the windup of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), which had been the main industry regulator of the press in the United Kingdom since 1990.

The Editors’ Code of Practice sets out the rules that newspapers and magazines regulated by IPSO have agreed to follow.

The Code is written and administered by the Editors’ Code Committee and enforced by IPSO.

1. Accuracy
2. Privacy
3. Harassment
4. Intrusion into grief and  shock
5. Reporting suicide
6. Children
7. Children in sex cases
8. Hospitals
9. Reporting of crime
10. Clandestine devices and subterfuge
11. Victims of sexual assault  
12. Discrimination
13. Financial journalism
14. Confidential sources
15. Witness payments in criminal trials
16. Payment to criminals
    
    

IPSO Blog: Reporting sexual offences

Head of Standards Charlotte Urwin on the importance of encouraging conversations about sexual violence and our new guidance and public information can support journalists and survivors.

Last week I spoke at a conference in Birmingham, bringing together Independent Sexual Violence Advisers from across the UK. ISVAs provide emotional support and guidance for anyone reporting current or non-recent sexual offences through the Criminal Justice System.

I was there to launch new information we have produced for survivors of sexual offences, explaining what they can expect if they speak to a journalist about their experience; as well as guidancewe have produced for journalists on how to report sexual offences.