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Campaign to warn youngsters of internet dangers | | 2008/05/08 | | Youngsters are being shown a series of animated films designed to increase awareness of online hazards.
Children between the ages of five and seven will be shown stories involving Hector the dolphin as part of the new government-backed initiative.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), which protects youngsters from paedophiles, plans to warn against interacting with strangers and giving out too much personal information when surfing the web.
CEOP chief executive Jim Gamble said: "We know that children are now using the internet at an increasingly young age.
"Teachers have asked us for this material because it is never too early to start giving children 'safety first' messages."
CEOP cited research by Ofcom suggesting that 59 per cent of children aged between five and seven had internet access at home, while 21 per cent of them used the web unsupervised.
The Hector's World series has been adapted for UK schoolchildren after it proved successful in New Zealand.
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