Independent evaluation of “Getting To Know IT ALL” volunteer programme highlights positive impact and suitable model to expand.

Childnet International today announced the death of Nigel Williams, Childnet's founder and first CEO (1995-2003).

Children’s internet charity, Childnet International, today announced the launch of its “SORTED” online guide – a major new resource produced entirely by young people for young people on the issues of internet security.

RAF Cosford’s Cyber Café has very generously donated £3,000 to Childnet International.

Childnet and Cisco Systems have successfully completed the pilot phase of their “Kidsmart” volunteering project, designed to help pupils in primary schools use the Internet safely. Childnet International employees and volunteers from Cisco Systems worked in partnership to teach over 1,000 pupils, across nine primary schools in the Tower Hamlets region of London.

As a member of the Home Office Task Force on Child protection on the Internet, Childnet has contributed to a major Home Office education and awareness campaign promoting internet safety. The campaign includes high profile advertisements in the national press and a new dedicated website.

Nigel Williams, Childnet's founder and first CEO, has been awarded an international award for his “outstanding contribution with international impact to the awareness of social implications of information technology”, at the Institut d’Informatique, Namur, Belgium.

Childnet is delighted to announce that the recently published Know IT All interactive CD-ROM for secondary schools, has been nominated for the UK Internet industry awards (The ISPAs ) in the category 'Developments in Online Safety'.

Childnet International and the National Crime Squad are pleased to announce the secondment of one of Childnet’s Project Managers, Helen Penn, to the new Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre for a 12 month period from 1st February 2006.

Firstly to the Home Office and Scottish Executive consultation on the possession of extreme pornographic material. Childnet support the proposal in the consultation to make illegal the possession of extreme pornographic material. The production and publishing of such material is already illegal, and Childnet outline in the response why the possession of such material should also be made illegal.Childnet have also recently submitted a response to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Consultation on the Draft Safety Measures Notice for Mobile Chat Services.