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Resources for children and young people, parents and guardians and teachers

Avon and Somerset Constabulary have produced a small leaflet entitled 'A Guide to Internet Chatrooms'. You can download a free copy of this leaflet using the link below:


A guide to Internet Chatrooms (*PDF format - 642KB)


Keep your child safe on the Internet

The Home Office have produced a booklet entitled 'KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE ON THE INTERNET'. This publication is currently available to everyone free of charge and can be obtained by contacting the Home Office on telephone number 0870 0001585 and ask for 'Publications Department'.


www.homeoffice.gov.uk


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The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP)

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre works across the UK and maximises international links to deliver a holistic approach that combines police powers with the dedicated expertise of business sectors, government, specialist charities and other interested organisations - all focused on tackling child sex abuse wherever and whenever it happens.


www.ceop.gov.uk


Think U Know

This Home Office website contains guidance for both young people and their parents/carers.


The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has set up its own young person's website which has been designed and written specifically for young people of secondary school age. The website is called 'thinkuknow'.


www.thinkuknow.co.uk


Kidsmart

Kidsmart is an award winning practical Internet safety advice website for schools, agencies and young people, produced by the children’s Internet charity Childnet.


www.kidsmart.org.uk


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Virtual Global Taskforce

The Virtual Global Taskforce logo The Virtual Global Taskforce website was launched on Wednesday 26 January 2005 to deter and prevent individuals from committing child abuse on-line. The new website has been pioneered by the National Crime Squad in association with UK industry leaders and law enforcement counterparts in Australia, Canada, the US, and Interpol.


The Virtual Global Taskforce partnership aims to make the Internet a safer place for children and a more hostile place for paedophiles.


The website acts as a gateway to information on how to use the Internet safely, and links to a range of support agencies that can advise and support victims of abuse. It also facilitates the ability of Internet users to report on-line child abuse in a secure and confidential environment. The aim is for the website to become a "one stop shop" for all information about child protection on-line.


www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com


Parents Centre, Internet Safety

The DfES website link ‘Parentscentre – helping you to help your child’


http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/...


Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) logo Internet crime - illegal content: To report illegal internet content (images or websites) which you believe contains any of the following:

  • child abuse images - hosted anywhere in the world
  • criminally obscene content - hosted in the UK
  • criminally racist content - hosted in the UK

Go to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) website: www.iwf.org.uk


The IWF operate an internet 'hotline' which allows members of the public to submit details of illegal content online which they may have been exposed to.


Making a report is easy, just follow the step by step instructions on the IWF website. The IWF can only help with content that falls into one of these 3 categories.


The IWF works in partnership with UK Government, Industry & the Police to minimise the availability of illegal content online and to influence initiatives and programmes developed to combat online abuse.


www.iwf.org.uk


Childnet International

This website gives news and background to Childnet International, a non-profit making organisation, working with others to "help make the Internet a great and safe place for children".


www.childnet-int.org


NCH The Childrens Charity, Internet Safety

The NCH logo NCH, the children's charity, campaigns for wider access to information and communication technology for children from less advantaged backgrounds. NCH have been at the forefront of promoting online safety for all children.


www.nch.org.uk/itok



Useful links for teachers

Department for Education and Skills (DfES) - Superhighway Safety

This DfES website link aims to highlight the safety issues and provide practical information and advice for schools on how to use the Internet and related technologies safely.


http://safety.ngfl.gov.uk/schools


Useful links for children

Department for Education and Skills (DfES) - Superhighway Safety

Childnet International has designed the ‘Chatdanger’ website, which has been created to inform young people about the potential dangers and ways of keeping safe in interactive areas online, such as chatrooms, instant messenger, online games and email, and also via mobile phones. The aim of the site is very much to inform and empower users so they can use these services safely, and not at all to discourage people.


www.chatdanger.com


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