Press

• 10th December 2007
  New resource equips teachers to tackle e-safety issues
  As issues such as cyber-bullying and online grooming cause increasing concern, a new training resource – ’Know IT All’ for Trainees and Teachers – is launched today, designed to empower teachers and trainee teachers at secondary level to better understand, tackle and teach e-safety issues to children. The resource – developed through a joint initiative between children’s internet charity, Childnet International, the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), Becta and Microsoft – reflects the growing need that teachers and those entering the teaching profession have to understand, support and educate children in using the internet and mobile phones safely and responsibly. Two sets of interactive resources are being launched today, one for trainee teachers and the other for practising teachers; both cover a wide range of issues, including the viewing of inappropriate content and plagiarism ... [read more>>]
  
  
  
  
  
• 11th October 2007
  Childnet's 'Know IT All for parents' wins best practice challenge award
  At a packed ceremony in London on 11 October, Stephen Timms MP, the Minister of State for Competitiveness at the UK Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, presented Childnet International an award for ‘Know IT ALL for Parents’ in the much anticipated Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2007. The Best Practice Challenge is part of an initiative by Nominet, Department for BERR (Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform’s) and key parliamentarians to create a UK Internet Governance Forum. The Challenge recognises organisations, groups or individuals that have delivered a safer, more accessible, diverse Internet experience ... [read more>>]
  
  
  
  
  
• 17th May 2007
  Parents helped to “Know IT All” in their own language
  Government Minister welcomes new multi-lingual CD-ROM giving parents advice on internet safety. Childnet International, the children’s internet charity, announced today the launch of its latest Know IT All multimedia CD-ROM aimed at helping parents better support their children’s positive and safe use of the internet. Commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills, Know IT All for Parents is being made available to all maintained schools in England to order in quantity for parents free of charge. The multimedia CD-ROM encourages parents to talk to their children about the internet, and in order to support the whole community, a summary of the advice has been translated into Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Polish, Mandarin, Punjabi, Urdu and British Sign Language ... [read more>>]
  
  
  
  
• 9th October 2006
  Childnet launches ‘Know IT All for Parents’ at Computers for Pupils Event
  Children’s internet safety organisation, Childnet International, today announced the launch of Know IT All for Parents aimed at helping parents better support their children’s positive and safe use of the internet. Commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills, the interactive CD ROM will be distributed to 100,000 families who, over the next two years, will receive a computer as part of the Government’s Computers for Pupils initiative ... [read more>>]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• June 2006
  "Getting to Know IT All" wins Big Tick Award!
  The "Getting to Know IT All" volunteer education programme that Childnet developed with partners Microsoft and the Virtual Global Task Force has won an important Big Tick award from Business in the Community.  At a packed reception at the King Edward Hall in the City of London the team received the award in the “BT Cause Related Business” category, which is supported by the Home Office and in association with Charities Aid Foundation ... [read more>>]
  
  
  
  
  
• 20th April 2006
  Volunteers Make A Real Impact in Schools
  Independent evaluation of “Getting To Know IT All” volunteer programme highlights positive impact and suitable model to expand. Childnet is delighted to announce the results from the evaluation of the recently launched volunteer programme “GETTING TO KNOW IT ALL” which the charity ran with partners Microsoft, MSN and the Police’s Virtual Global Task Force ... [read more>>]
  
  
  
  
  
• 1st November 2005
  National Campaign to Help Young People Stay Safe on the Net “Getting to Know IT All Launches today”
  A pioneering national campaign launched today is to help teachers and parents promote Internet safety for children and young people through the provision of important resources and a unique school visit programme ... [read more>>]