Child Safety - What is more important?

Kidshield has only one aim - to educate and protect our children

Kidshield is packed with useful information and advice, we've reviewed the latest child safety software packages to help you decide which one is best for you. 

Our focus for 2008 is to help to dramatically reduce the number of children surfing online without online filters installed, and increase awareness amongst parents of the simple steps they can take to make their children safe online.

Protect your children online

Don't leave your family exposed to the real dangers they can face on the Internet.  Protecting your children online is as easy as purchasing parental control software for as little as £30 per year. 

"1 in 5 children aged 10 to 17 have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet." Net Nanny is a powerful, yet simple to install parental control solution that helps parents protect their children and monitor their Internet use. More than an Internet Filter, it is peace of mind. Read our review at parental control software

Kidshield have put together a range of products designed to keep your children safe from harm online.  Don't let someone else educate your kids!  We offer a range of free products including the Kidshield Guide to Understanding Cyber Lingo.

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Nearly a third of young people have received unwanted sexual comment online or by text. Just 7% of parents know their child has been subjected to such material.  4.2 million websites contain indecent images 100,000 websites contain indecent images of children

Source: Ceop

Children and young people often place themselves at risk online by engaging in risky, cybersexual behaviour. These situations could have been prevented if young users had been sufficiently empowered to stay in control of their personal information online or recognise and take steps to protect themselves from risky engagement with suspicious contacts.  Source:  CEOP

Get Educated and Get Safe

"Because they are upstairs and they're quiet doesn't mean they're safe.  They're no more safe upstairs on the Internet than they are out in the park at 2 O'Clock in the morning"

MA State Police Internet Crimes Taskforce

What really does go on?

Paedophiles communicate with each other and with unsuspecting children every minute of every day.  Don't fool yourself into thinking that this is a problem for other people to worry about, if your child is surfing the net then you need to get smart, before someone else educates your child on your behalf.

Read this extract from a paedophile communicating online with his like-minded friends, kindly provided by Perverted Justice.com

Keech is a pedophile who has been a member of the BLISS forums since June 2002.

He has made note that he prefers little boys with blonde hair and green eyes. He lives in the UK and has posted about taking on a work placement through school in which he works with children (an unpaid position).

Extract from Keech chat:

Kidshield Comment:  If you are shocked by what you've just read then you should be.  Educate yourself and then your children, install parental control software and keep talking to your children.

The Internet is a fantastic educational tool that your children should be encouraged to use to its full potential, but whilst they are still children they need to be protected from its darker side.

 Read an excerpt from The Real Face of Online Predators

25% of children and young people surveyed said they had met up in the offline world with someone with whom they had made initial contact online. (based on a partial sample of 6000 respondents) source:  CEOPS

Bullying has taken on a whole new concept with the advent of the digital age and almost 35% of children in a recent survey said they had been subjected to cyber bullying.

In January 2007 it was revealed that a number of British nationals who had been convicted of crimes abroad, including 29 for child sex offences, had not had their information added to the UK Police National Computer. This posed a potential risk to children as information about these crimes was not accessible to employers to be taken into account in recruitment decisions. source:  Briefing from the NSPCC, February 2007

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