Kidshield Forum

 

 

 

Get Advice on Child Safety

At Kidshield we believe that the key to ensuring our children's safety is to firstly educate our adults.

 

 

Facebook Child Safety

 

Facebook, the social networking site strengthens child protection by removing 29,000 sex offenders.

 

 

Parental Control Software

 

In real life you would protect your children, so why not protect them on the Internet?

Download software to protect your children from online sexual predators. Free Trials available...

 

 

 

Child Safety Online

 

Keep your children safe. Place the family computer in a common area, rather than a child's bedroom. Also, monitor their time spent online and the websites they've visited.

 

 

Web Filtering

 

Learn more about Web Filtering and how it can help to keep your children safe from online predators.

 

 

Cyber Bullying

 

Cyber Bullying is on the rise, using email, mobiles, text and instant messaging. Read the signs and stop it.

 

 

Dangers of Social Networking

 

The rise of MySpace, Bebo, Faceparty and other social networking sites has created a paradise for predators intent  on online grooming. If you are concerned about child safety ...

 

 

 

Abuse by People they know

 

2/3 children are abused by people they know.

 

 

Online Grooming

 

Online solicitation and 'grooming' are the most common forms of online child sexual abuse. 

 

 

Sex Offenders in your area

 

UK Mappa 2007 Annual Report  - find out the number of sex offenders in your area

 

 

Byron Review

 

Dr Tanya Byron heads up an Independent Review to protect children from harmful content. 

 

 

Stranger Danger

 

How great is the danger of “playing out” in an unsupervised public place?

 

 

 

Top 25 Online Safety Tips

 

 

 

 

Kidshield - Get Advice

 

If you require help or advice on any of the topics covered by Kidshield Europe, then please contact a dedicated helpline within your European country. 

 

Trained counsellors can provide you with the advice and help you need.

 

Within the UK you can contact:

 

CHILDLINE CONTACT
Help for children & young people 0800 1111
Help for adults 0808 800 5000
www.childline.org.uk  
CEOP CONTACT
CEOP the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre www.thinkuknow.co.uk
www.thinkuknow.co.uk Report Abuse online

 

 

Kidshield have asked the EU Commission for a complete breakdown of all Child Focussed Helplines within the European Community, and are awaiting their reply

 

As soon as the information is received Kidshield will publish on this page.

 

If you require help or advice on our range of Kidshield Educational Tools then please use our contact page

 

 

 

Who are your kids chatting to online?

 

Parental Control Software

 

Our top pick amongst the 25 tested by Kidshield  was Net Nanny which performed head and shoulders above other parental control software.  Net Nanny is more than an internet filter, it is peace of mind:

 

  • easy to install

  • easy to manage

  • provides monitoring of Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer Networking and lots more

  • costs less than an X-Box or PS2 game

  • Did everything we asked and more!

 

 

You can purchase Net Nanny directly from the Kidshield Store for only £29.99

 

 

 

 

 

Join our community at the Kidshield Forum, we want to hear your views

 

 

 

 

Name and Shame illegal content

The Internet Watch Foundation  indicates that the USA and Russia between them appear to host the majority of illegal child images.

 

Madeleine McCann

 

 

Megans Law

How the US manages it's sex offenders.

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Are your children's photographs safe on the Internet?

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Nannies, Au Pairs and your children's safety...

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Child Tracking Tools

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Sex Offenders Register

How does it work? Do it's powers reach far enough?

 

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EU Guidelines to Prevent Sex Offenders from working with children.  

 

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Your children's safety on holiday.  Read the Australian report

 

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The opinion of Downing Street on paedophiles in your community

 

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Child Sex Tourism Each year, more than one million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade.

 

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NSPCC Briefing on sexual abuse.

 

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Paedophile Ring uncovered in the UK

 

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