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Our focus for 2008 is to help to dramatically reduce the number
of children surfing online without online filters installed, and
increase awareness amongst parents of the simple steps they can take
to make their children safe online.
Who is watching your kids when they are online?
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"1 in 5 children aged 10 to 17 have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet." Net Nanny is a powerful, yet simple to install parental control solution that helps parents protect their children and monitor their Internet use. More than an Internet Filter, it is peace of mind.
Recent research submitted by Microsoft to the EU Commission
estimates that despite widespread concern about online safety
content, only 1 in 10 Schools and Parents had installed any sort of
child safety software.
Get Educated and Get Safe
"Because they are upstairs and they're quiet
doesn't mean they're safe. They're no more safe upstairs on the
Internet than they are out in the park at 2 O'Clock in the morning"
MA State Police Internet Crimes Taskforce
What really does go on?
Paedophiles communicate with each
other and with unsuspecting children every minute of every day.
Don't fool yourself into thinking that this is a problem for other
people to worry about, if your child is surfing the net then you
need to get smart, before someone else educates your child on your
behalf.
Read this extract
from a paedophile communicating online with his like-minded friends,
kindly provided by Perverted Justice.com
Keech is a pedophile who has been a
member of the
BLISS forums since June 2002.
He has made note that he prefers little boys
with blonde hair and green eyes. He lives in the UK and has posted
about taking on a work placement through school in which he works
with children (an unpaid position).
Extract from Keech chat:
“
... I have seen great cuteness at the
placement venue when I went yesterday and I think it's too
good to turn down (indeed I went in and the kids started
asking who I was!) so I shall accept it for a few weeks and
see how it goes... I only waited four months for the police
check and good things come to those who wait....
Never done this sort of thing before but
its kinda like eating sprouts - how do you know you hate
sprouts if you don't try them? Thus, how do I know I'm not
going to like working in an After School Club if I don't
actually work there?
I feel lucky and happy. Getting home at
twenty to eight in the evening may well be one of the
downers but think of the boys. Keech....
The
Internet is a fantastic educational tool that your children should
be encouraged to use to its full potential, but whilst they are
still children they need to be protected from its darker side.
Nearly a third of young people
have received unwanted sexual comment online or by text. Just 7% of
parents know their child has been subjected to such material. 4.2
million websites contain indecent images 100,000 websites contain
indecent images of children
Children and young people often place
themselves at risk online by engaging in risky, cybersexual
behaviour. These situations could have been prevented if young users
had been sufficiently empowered to stay in control of their personal
information online or recognise and take steps to protect themselves
from risky engagement with suspicious contacts. Source:
CEOP
25% of children and young people surveyed said they had met up in
the offline world with someone with whom they had made initial
contact online. (based on a partial sample of 6000 respondents)
source: CEOPS
Bullying has taken on a whole new concept
with the advent of the digital age and almost 35% of children in a
recent survey said they had been subjected to cyber bullying.
In January 2007 it
was revealed that a number of British nationals who had been
convicted of crimes abroad, including 29 for child sex offences, had
not had their information added to the UK Police National Computer.
This posed a potential risk to children as information about these
crimes was not accessible to employers to be taken into account in
recruitment decisions. source:
Briefing from the NSPCC, February 2007
Parents Need to Take the Lead in Child
Protection
Never take anything for granted when it comes to your Child Safety. In 2006 UK Ofsted inspectors found that
hardly any of the 58 schools it looked at took "even the simplest of
measures in terms of record keeping". The inspectors found that most
schools believed local authorities had been carrying out criminal
records checks. Most had not checked whether staff were who they
claimed to be, had the qualifications they said they had or even if
they had a criminal record.
Under the new guidance, schools and colleges have been issued
with much clearer guidelines on their responsibilities. With
effect from January 2007 schools and colleges will have to
keep a record of all the checks they make, including ID checks,
qualification requirements and Criminal Record Bureau checks.
Education inspectors had been asked by previous education secretary
Ruth Kelly to look at the issue after it emerged that dozens of sex
offenders had been cleared by ministers to work with children.
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