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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]
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. Wendy McAuliffe, Safety and Privacy Officer at Habbo Ltd -- which...
[November 13, 2002, 13:23]
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
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]
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]
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]
Government increases proposed jail terms for Web grooming
News The government is keen to crack down on Internet grooming, the term for paedophiles using the Web to cultivate relationships with children. The government announced on Monday that it is increasing the maximum sentence for grooming a child from the...
[November 3, 2003, 16:20]
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]
The Year Ahead: Is the Internet becoming safer for children?
News Internet chatrooms were recognised as a breeding ground for sophisticated Net predators, and the Home Office was compelled to pave new legislation that would criminalise the online "grooming" of children.
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
Blair considers new paedophile laws
News Burstow is reported as asking: "Will you take steps to review the law to ensure that such online grooming is a criminal offence and also use pressure, and bring it to bear on Internet service providers, so that they offer parents chat-free...
[March 1, 2001, 7:19]
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. Grooming" is the technique that paedophiles use on the Internet to entice children...
[May 9, 2001, 14:25]
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]
Rape victim's father demands paedophile crackdown
News Grooming" is the technique that paedophiles use to entice children into sexual activity on the Internet. The father of a Net paedophile victim is successfully lobbying the Home Office into criminalising the online "grooming" of children.
[March 1, 2001, 13:05]
Home Office screens Internet paedophile warning ads
News The taskforce has also received policy approval for an anti-grooming order, which will make it a criminal offence for paedophiles to solicit children in Internet chatrooms, while additionally containing a civil order to protect children from an...
[December 19, 2001, 16:50]
Kiwi kids most at risk from Internet dangers
News The British government has also announced plans to criminalise the online "grooming" of children. The survey conducted by Auckland University's psychology department found one in three Kiwi girls aged 11 to 19 to have had a face-to-face meeting...
[March 9, 2001, 7:20]
Chatroom Danger: The role of the Internet Watch Foundation
News s instant messaging service where paedophiles are regularly "grooming" youngsters for sex and the problem has gone right to the heart of government, with prime minister Tony Blair promising to look at the issue.
[March 15, 2001, 12:43]
Children's charities call for end to 'anarchic Internet'
Talkback Of course the rather inapropriately named "grooming" for real meets is not something I would wish to see growing but on the other hand many young people need a safe environment where they can express and explore the sexual feelings that many...
[October 5, 2003, 17:15]
Net abductor's sentencing delayed
News British courts have been inundated in recent months with cases of paedophiles abusing Internet chatrooms for "grooming" children into offline meetings, or trading child pornography over the Web. A British judge has adjourned sentencing on Monday...
[April 10, 2001, 8:39]
Straw plans Net paedophile crackdown
News It recognised the growing risk of Net predators grooming children online with a view to developing a sexual relationship with them in the real world. Home secretary Jack Straw is holding a summit Wednesday lunchtime to discuss the approach that...
[March 28, 2001, 10:54]
