About Kidshield Europe

Kidshield Europe was started by Angela Fagan in early 2007 and soon joined by other parents who wanted to find out more about educating our children in both on and offline personal safety.

When we set out to research the subject we found lots of information, but the only site we had collectively heard of previously was "Childline", and that's only because we learned about it as children!

Our surveys and research amongst other parents revealed the same story time and time again - parents didn't really know where to look and most survived on the portions of information they had learned as children. Most did not actively seeks out the sites which provided the information and almost 98% couldn't name a child safety education site! (Based on 512 respondents)
 

What parents wanted to know about Child Safety

When we started research for Kidshield we wanted to know the answers to the following questions:

• how to protect our children?
• how to educate ourselves?
• how to teach our children to protect themselves?
• how to raise our children's awareness of the dangers lurking online and offline?
• what the education authorities were doing to raise the profile of online dangers?
• how the sex offenders register works, and why couldn't we be trusted with the information it contains?
• why megans law was considered good for the US but unworkable in the UK and Europe?
• how many children really go missing every year - and how many are found?
• how do internal police forces share information on predators and missing children?

Most of the adults (97%)  we spoke to during a survey before Kidshield was created, stated that although they were interested in teaching their child about personal safety, they were often unclear about how to deliver the message.  Although there is a huge amount of information online, parents often struggled to find what they were looking for - and even more alarming almost all quickly gave up! 

Kidshield Mission

Kidshield Europe missions are:

• To reduce the number of children who are subjected to any sort of online and offline abuse
• To raise awareness and empower both parents and educational authorities throughout Europe to consistency deliver personal safety training to children
• To consistency champion and lobby on behalf of child protection charities to ensure that they continue to receive funding.  (Some major childrens charities have been on the brink of closing due to funding difficulties - see Press Release)

The Team at Kidshield
Educate and Protect our Children


 

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