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Government increases proposed jail terms for Web grooming
News The government announced on Monday that it is increasing the maximum sentence for grooming a child from the seven years that was formerly proposed. We have decided to raise the penalty for the grooming offence following a convincing debate in...
[November 3, 2003, 16:20]
Internet 'grooming' legislation faces delays
News Speaking at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton on Monday, Beverley Hughes, the Home Office minister and chair of the Internet Taskforce on Child Protection, implied that new "grooming...
[October 2, 2001, 13:28]
Government unveils 'grooming laws'
News The first major shake-up of sex laws in more than half a century has seen the introduction of a new offence, which covers the practice of 'grooming'. Grooming typically involves paedophiles befriending children in internet chatrooms, often...
[January 30, 2003, 8:41]
Lawyers sceptical of "grooming" laws
News Government plans to criminalise the "grooming" of children on the Internet could be subverted by difficulties in defining online criminal intent, legal experts warn. Blair's decision to review laws dealing with "grooming" techniques used by...
[March 6, 2001, 11:44]
Hopes raised for Internet grooming ban
News Internet grooming, the practice by which paedophiles use the Web to cultivate relationships with children with the aim of making contact and abusing them, could soon be made illegal. The precise details of the bill will not be published until later...
[November 13, 2002, 13:23]
Home Office may criminalise chatroom 'grooming'
News The Home Office is to propose a controversial "anti-grooming" order today, making it a criminal offence for paedophiles to solicit children in Internet chatrooms. We are aware that the particular act of 'grooming' is not covered by criminal law...
[May 9, 2001, 14:25]
Straw makes Internet grooming an election issue
News Internet "grooming" has become an election issue for the Labour party, with opposition parties accusing the government of deceitfully taking ownership of a proposal to criminalise the online solicitation of children in the run-up to the general...
[May 21, 2001, 13:37]
Lawyers sceptical of "grooming" laws
Talkback I am the mother of a 14 year-old who has had the unfortunate experience of finding out that men are contacting her through a site popular in her middle school, for the purposes of engaging in cyber-sex.
[November 22, 2005, 3:05]
Switching and Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks
White Papers This paper considers the role of switching in minimizing the number of electronic ports (e.g. SONET ADMs) in an optical network that carries sub-wavelength traffic. Providing nodes with the ability to switch traffic between wavelengths, such as...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Blair considers new paedophile laws
News The grooming process is designed to convince vulnerable children that sexual relations with adults is acceptable. Burstow is reported as asking: "Will you take steps to review the law to ensure that such online grooming is a criminal offence and...
[March 1, 2001, 7:19]
Rape victim's father demands paedophile crackdown
News The father of a Net paedophile victim is successfully lobbying the Home Office into criminalising the online "grooming" of children. Blair's announcement that he was "actively considering" a review of the law to deal with online "grooming" during...
[March 1, 2001, 13:05]
Home Office to criminalise chatroom meetings
News The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalise the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal offence for an Internet paedophile to meet a child offline with the intention of...
[July 20, 2001, 17:18]
UNESCO calls for 'Cyber Mums' against paedophiles
Talkback iam in fear that the aisian mafia in keighley are slowly getting there grip on my youngest daughter since the police investigations into certain asian men from the pakistani community in keighley into grooming young girls from ages between 11-16...
[July 25, 2005, 8:57]
Coronation Street prepares chatroom danger plot
News Makers of the soap have consulted the government on how to present the sensitive issue of paedophiles using Internet chatrooms to meet children and subsequently "grooming" them for offline sexual meetings.
[May 14, 2001, 10:55]
Government puts onus for chatroom policing on ISPs
News An Internet Crime Forum Report published on Tuesday challenges all ISPs to moderate chatrooms specifically created for children, but fails to consider new laws to criminalise online "grooming". Grooming" is the technique that paedophiles use to...
[March 20, 2001, 15:15]
The Year Ahead: Is the Internet becoming safer for children?
News The Home Office waited a month before announcing its u-turn on grooming legislation. The "anti-grooming" order proposed to make it a criminal offence for paedophiles to solicit children in Internet chatrooms, while additionally containing a civil...
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
Government limits consultation on child protection law
News The Home Office has been criticised for excluding public interest groups from its initial consultation period on a new law designed to criminalise the "grooming" of children in Internet chatrooms. The "grooming" proposal was developed in August by...
[September 7, 2001, 8:30]
Optical Network Design With Optical Constraints in IP/WDM Network
White Papers This paper considers algorithms for the logical topology design and traffic grooming problem in WDM networks with router interface constraints as well as optical constraints. The optical constraints include restricted transmission range due to...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Cyberangels preach online safety to East London teens
Talkback I mean when grooming carries on after initial link up in the chatroom, via the vitims mobile phone, probably with the hope of an actual meeting for the groomer ? How will the new law deal with txt sex by an abuser to a victim.
[April 29, 2004, 20:41]
