Online Safety
Campaign For Children

Children as young as five are being targeted in a new online safety campaign backed by the government.

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.

Experts say that by raising awareness of web risks at an early age, children will be better protected.

The campaign run by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety - a coalition of industry, charity and government groups - is launched as part of EU Internet Safety Day.

One of the organisations in 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.