Internet safety strategy aimed at children
December 9, 2009
The U.K. Council for Child Internet Safety has been officially unveiled. The campaign has been launched as a way of providing the country’s children with information on how best to protect themselves when using the internet. The councils mantra ‘Zip It, Block It, Flag it’ is reminiscent of The Green Cross Code man’s ‘Stop, Look and Listen’ and will hopefully encourage youngsters to keep personal details about themselves private, secure themselves against inappropriate websites and emails and alert the relevant authorities to sites and content which are a cause for concern.
Last week Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that he had received a wake up call when his youngest son managed to sent a nonsense Tweet to all his wife’s Twitter followers. He said that he and Sarah would be taking much more care in future to monitor their children’s internet activity. Soon after her son Fraser sent the Tweet Sarah Brown sent out another Tweet explaining the origin of the previous message. She said that in future she would turn off her computer when she was not using it to prevent the same thing happening again and also to save on energy.
The new internet safety strategy will try to implement recommendations made by Professor Tanya Brown, a parenting expert and psychologist. When she was looking into how best to get parents and children to use the internet in a constructive and non-harmful way she found that ninety-nine percent of eight to seventeen-year-olds were making use of the internet. She went on to point out that a third of children had no parental supervision whilst on the web and that twenty percent had experienced inappropriate content.
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