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PARENTS are being taught how to prevent their children falling victim to online predators, amid rising fears about the prevalence of paedophiles on the internet. A 250-strong team of teachers, police officers and social workers are being sent across Scotland to give lectures and offer one-to-one advice. America's FBI estimates that 50,000 paedophiles across the world are online at any one time. In Britain, one in 12 children has had a conversation with a stranger online, according to the London School of Economics. Now, experts trained specifically to explain the hidden dangers posed by online predators will be passing on advice to anxious parents. The sessions, being offered free in schools, village halls and youth clubs, will also give explanations on how to access the internet for parents whose technological knowledge has been outpaced by their children's. The initiative comes after numerous requests from parents asking schools and police officers where they could learn more about the online threats facing their children. The move, which will see 4,700 experts giving advice across the UK, is part of the "ThinkuKnow" campaign run by the Child Exploitation Online Protection Service (CEOP), a Government agency tasked with fighting online paedophiles. Jim Gamble, the chief executive of CEOP, said: "It really is time that we share with parents the types of behavioural changes that could be the early warning signs in their children; that we get our minds around these new terminologies, these ever-emerging opportunities, and instead of facing them with fear, we face them with informed opinion and intelligent understanding."
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