Searching the internet and child safety: a guide for parents
With ever increasing amounts of material – websites, images, video, etc - on the internet, searching carefully is crucial, but how can parents and carers help children search safely? This guide will help you.
Most children use search engines to find things on the Internet. In addition to the incredible positives and benefits that search brings, for example helping to research for school assignments, there is a risk to children searching the Internet of exposure to material that may be potentially harmful to them, or even material that is illegal.
This document aims to help parents in their choice of search provider by using a checklist of questions to outline what is current good practice in relation to child safety for search providers, and to enable parents to be aware of what they can do to help their children search safer.
This document is a summary of the full document, Good practice guidance for search service providers and advice to the public on how to search safely, published by the Home Office in December 2005.
All the main search providers in the UK contributed to this document to help identify and outline what is good practice for providing search in relation to child safety as well as drawing up information for parents about search.
Date: Fri Dec 22 10:35:35 GMT 2006
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