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Internet Safety Programme Goes To UK Schools
News UK efforts to improve child safety on the Internet were continued on Thursday with the launch of a nationwide education programme, devised by Childnet International and PC manufacturer Tiny. The learning programme builds on an earlier initiative...
[January 10, 2002, 17:52]
Child Agencies Lambast Yahoo! Over Chatroom Apathy
News told ZDNet that it was working with Childnet in educating children about the dangers of using chatrooms, but Williams argues that words and good intentions are not enough. Childnet set up Chatdanger.com last month to coincide with the sentencing of...
[November 9, 2000, 15:41]
Police Chief Slams Yahoo! Chatroom Silence
News says it is in ongoing dialogue with the child agency Childnet to deal with the problem. Last week however Childnet led calls for Yahoo! Three children's charities including Childnet International, NCH Action for Children and Childwatch lambasted...
[November 16, 2000, 16:07]
Exclusive: Yahoo! Will Act Against Paedophiles
News King also confirmed that she is receiving advice from organisations such as Childnet International and the police. We are working closely with Childnet and the Internet Watch foundation as well as the police to deal with this problem," King told...
[November 21, 2000, 15:46]
Lawyers Sceptical Of "grooming" Laws
News On recommendation from Internet children's charity Childnet International, the government is considering making the "enticement" or "luring" of children in chatrooms a criminal offence. The precise wording is less important than the definitions...
[March 6, 2001, 11:44]
Investigation Confirms Chatroom Dangers
News This confirms the concerns that Childnet has that chatrooms can be quite dangerous places, and that those using them need to be aware of the need to be careful, particularly if they are approached by people who want one-to-one sexual conversations...
[December 18, 2000, 10:41]
CDA Verdict Won't Affect UK Fight For Net Decency
News Nigel Williams, director of UK-based pressure group ChildNet International said that the CDA was "not quite a quick fix, but certainly a government fix to the problem. ChildNet will launch proposals at next month's Global Communications conference...
[June 27, 1997, 12:30]
Yahoo! UK To Block Access To US Chatrooms
News He says that the decision was taken after consultation with children's charities and Internet watchdogs including ChildNet and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). Internet portal Yahoo! has changed its UK Instant Messenger client to block access...
[February 12, 2001, 14:59]
Rape Victim's Father Demands Paedophile Crackdown
News The family's MP, Paul Burstow and Nigel Williams, director of children's Internet charity Childnet International, were also in attendance. Home secretary Jack Straw and Home Office ministers Clarke and Lord Bassam had met Wednesday morning to...
[March 1, 2001, 13:05]
UK Expert Calls For Entrapment Of Paedophiles
News If US entrapment law has been so successful in a country where freedom of speech and civil liberties are so carefully guarded, the UK has to examine why current legislation prevents a proactive approach," argued Nigel Williams, director of...
[October 25, 2000, 11:07]
Government Claims Paedophile Laws Do Not Need Updating
News Nigel Williams, director of children's charity Childnet International, is unconvinced by the Home Office's response that existing legislation, in particular the Indecency with Children Act 1960, is sufficient to deal with online enticement.
[November 1, 2000, 6:06]
Chatroom Danger: The Role Of The Internet Watch Foundation
News Nigel Williams is the director of Childnet and a board member of the IWF. Online paedophilia is back in the news following the terrible revelations about the Wonderland Club -- the world's biggest Net-based child pornography ring -- and a string of...
[March 15, 2001, 12:43]
Safe Surfing Test Proposed To Protect Kids
News Leading children's charities such as Childnet International and NCH Action for Children, however, dispute IPPR's criticism of filtering packages. Some instances do occasionally arise, but the software will usually allow those individual sites to be...
[January 30, 2001, 15:36]
Never Mind The Brits, Here Are The ISPAs
News The Internet Watch Foundation Award for development in online safety, was given to Childnet for its Kidsmart initiative, which is designed to be a practical Internet safety advice Web site resource for schools.
[February 21, 2003, 8:25]
Exclusive: Interview With UK Head Of Yahoo!
News King also confirmed that she is receiving advice from organisations such as Childnet International and the police. In an exclusive interview with ZDNet News UK Tuesday morning, Martina King, UK managing director of Yahoo!
[November 21, 2000, 11:25]
News Burst: Paedophiles Stalking Their Prey Online
News Children's charity Childnet International is launching Chatdanger.com to coincide with the sentencing of Patrick Green. Internet paedophile Patrick Green has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl that...
[October 24, 2000, 9:44]
British Kids' Awareness Of Internet Dangers Has Increased
News Nigel Williams, director of Childnet International, agrees that an increase in publicity about the dangers of Internet chat has made children more reluctant to give out their personal information over the Web, but said that this is not an excuse...
[July 31, 2001, 17:17]
British Web Chat Doubles
News The figures show us the scale of the problem that we face -- it's a growing interest and not a minority thing," said Nigel Williams, director of Childnet International. Britain's uptake of online chat has doubled in the last twelve months according...
[March 23, 2001, 15:15]
Government Widens Net Of Responsibility For Kids
News At last the message is getting through that the Internet industry is much broader than ISPs," said Nigel Williams, director of Childnet International. The Home Office admitted at a cybercrime summit on Wednesday that it is no longer appropriate for...
[March 29, 2001, 16:18]
EU Pledges Limited Net Laws
News This was encouraging," said Nigel Williams, director of UK-based pressure group ChildNet International. Speaking at the Global Information Networks conference in Bonn, Germany, Guenther Rexrodt, the German economics affairs minister, said that...
[July 9, 1997, 17:00]
