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'Online Safety' blog posts:
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20 Jun 2013New measures announced to tackle online child pornography
The Internet Watch Foundation will be asked to work with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre to actively seek out illegal images of child abuse on the internet.
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31 May 2013YoungMinds on Mark Bridger conviction: Protect Our Children
YoungMinds: Internet Service Providers must act now to restrict access to online pornography in order to protect our children.
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14 May 2013Record number of children protected from abusers
There has been an 85 per cent rise in the number of children protected from potential online sexual abusers and predators.
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18 Mar 20131.5m adults 'stumble upon' child pornography
Internet Watch Foundation finds 1.5 million people have found child porn accidentially yet 40 per cent do not know how to report it and 12 per cent would ignore it.
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5 Mar 2013NSPCC: Young people need protecting from sexualised society
NSPCC finds over 5,000 offences of young people committing child sexual abuse in the last three years.
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6 Feb 2013
Internet abuse is key child protection issue
NSPCC used Safter Internet Day yesterday to highlight the problems of internet abuse and cyber bullying.
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5 Feb 2013Today is Safer Internet Day
Tenth anniversary of Safer Internet Day urges young people to 'connect with respect'.
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5 Feb 2013YoungMinds awarded funding to develop online advice on medication
Innovation Labs have selected YoungMinds to develop a reliable online information and advice service on how precribed drugs may influence mental and physical health.
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4 Jan 2013Online support strategy needed
The time is right for an online mental health strategy for children and young people, says guest blogger Dr Aaron Balick
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21 Nov 2012Children's commissioner report on child sexual exploitation
Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups by the Office of the Children's Commissioner interim report findings.