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CEOP sets up site to teach kids how to stay safe online
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre – a UK police organisation dedicated to tackling child sex abuse – has launched an online safety programme.
The initiative, in association with BECTA (Bringing Educational Creativity to All), focuses on a cybercafe at thinkuknow.co.uk/cybercafe. The site aims to allow children between the ages of eight and 11 years to meet and learn about different aspects of online safety at their own pace.
Through a series of games, the children can help the characters use the internet to complete their homework, send emails and text messages, post online forums and a host of other activities safely. There is also a glossary for children to use should they need help in understanding the language of the online world.
It is intended that the free programme can be delivered either as a standalone online service for children and parents at home, or through teachers in schools who can download lesson plans and other resources. The content has designed by teachers.
Parents can also find help by visiting the site, where programmes have been designed to guide visitors through the technology. It explains all the different ways in which children are using the internet, as well as giving practical advice on how to protect them and provides useful first-warning signs in how the behaviour of young people may change if they are being targeted by offenders.
Jim Gamble, chief executive of the CEOP Centre, said: “What we have learnt from children and teachers alike is that children as young as eight are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of the internet. But where the natural, innocent naivety of children collides with the open and often unrestricted nature of the virtual world then their safety is always going to be called into question.”
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