16 November 2005
The Home Office has published new guidelines to protect children who access chatrooms and use search engines.
Details on a new Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre have also been released.
The new guidance sets out advice to Internet service providers, listing ways they should help create a safer Internet experience for children.
It makes a number of recommendations such as offering ways users can report illegal online content and how filtering services to monitor unsuitable content found through search engines.
"I want to make sure that by working across international boundaries and involving the internet industry, we keep children safe from abuse in the UK and the rest of the world," explained Paul Goggins, Home Office minister and chair of the government taskforce onf child protection on the Internet.
"Our message to them is clear - there is no place for online abuse anywhere in the world, and our police are one step ahead in the fight to protect children," he added.
Mr Goggins went on to praise the development of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre which is set to open April next year.
The centre will provide a single contact point for anyone from the public, Internet and communications industry or police force to report anything unsuitable online that targets children.
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