Online safety push for five-year-olds
Children as young as five are being targeted in a new online safety campaign by the UK body charged with protecting children from abuse.
The campaign uses cartoons to show five to seven-year-olds that people are not always what they seem.
It is thought 80% of children in this age group use the web and one-in-five parents of this age group worry about who their children contact online.
The campaign is being launched as part of EU Internet Safety Day.
The organisation behind the safety campaign - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) - is one of the many which have been behind campaigns designed to help children and teenagers to keep themselves safe from online predators.
The organisation believes that by raising awareness of online risks at an early age, children will be better protected as they grow up.
When it was set up nearly four years ago, it began by running campaigns in secondary schools for teenagers and has gradually targeted younger and younger groups.
SAFETY TIPS FOR PARENTS
1. Talk to your child about what they are doing online
2. Make sure your children understand they should keep online friends online
3. If they want to meet someone in the real world, make sure they take you, or another trusted adult, with them
4. Encourage your child to only chat to and webcam with people they know in the real world and that they understand why they need to protect personal information
Source: Ceop
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