A recent survey by children's charity NCH and Tesco Telecoms shows thatchildren are increasingly at risk because their parents do not knowenough about the technology. The survey shows that more than half ofchildren are never or hardly ever supervised by their parents whenonline. More than a third of parents say they don't know how to denyaccess to specific web sites or install parental controls.
At the same time, at least half the children said they were able todisable parental controls and security software. 4Children's own Buzzsurvey this summer showed that 23 per cent of children had beenapproached by strangers either through the internet or on their mobilephone.
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