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	<title>The TalkTalk Blog &#187; child internet safety</title>
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		<title>HomeSafe nominated for ISPA award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our unique network-level security service HomeSafe has had a great response from customers, politicians and the media, and now it has been nominated for an industry award.
More than 385,000 TalkTalk customers have activated HomeSafe, which can block access to websites about suicide, self-harm, drugs, weapons, gambling and adult content, as well as websites infected with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/05/21/homesafe-nominated-for-ispa-award/</link>
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		<title>Happy birthday HomeSafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is officially one year today since we launched HomeSafe, our groundbreaking network-level security service, and what a year its been.
Today over 350,000 of our customers are using HomeSafe and this continues to grow daily. In March we also became the first – and so far only – ISP to ask our new customers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/05/09/happy-birthday-homesafe/</link>
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		<title>Protecting children online with parental controls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We welcome the continued focus from Government, and specifically the Prime Minister, on the hugely important issue of protecting children online.
TalkTalk remains the only ISP to ask new customers to make an upfront decision about using parental controls. Since we began doing this in March, one in three new customers has chosen to activate them; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/05/04/protecting-children-online-with-parental-controls/</link>
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		<title>One in three new customers using HomeSafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection, chaired by Claire Perry MP, has published its final report which included a number of recommendations for Government and ISPs about how child internet safety could be improved.
It is good to see the continued Parliamentary and Government focus in this area. I’ve always believed that as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/04/18/were-leading-the-way-as-one-in-three-of-our-new-customers-are-using-homesafe-to-make-the-internet-safer-for-their-children/</link>
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		<title>Promoting online safety by keeping kids safe on the streets</title>
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Child safety has long been an important issue for TalkTalk. We’ve been working hard to help keep children safe online through our unique HomeSafe security service, but having recently learnt of the funding difficulties faced by school crossing patrols, we’re no longer looking only at child safety on the ‘information superhighway’ but also on real-life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/04/02/promoting-online-safety-by-keeping-kids-safe-on-the-streets/</link>
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		<title>Meet one of our HomeSafe mums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As any regular readers of our blog will know, internet safety is something that we take very seriously here at TalkTalk. We recently hosted an event at our Customer Experience Centre in London in celebration of Safer Internet Day and much of the discussion focused on how you strike the balance between protecting your children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/03/30/meet-one-of-our-homesafe-mums/</link>
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		<title>TalkTalk supports Beatbullying’s Big March 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you visit talktalk.co.uk on Thursday you might be surprised to see hundreds of thousands of virtual marchers crossing our website. That’s because 1st March is the Big March 2012, the world’s first virtual, global march against bullying. Nearly 1 million people have signed a petition calling for children to have the right be free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/02/27/talktalk-supports-beatbullying%e2%80%99s-big-march-2012/</link>
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		<title>New survey reveals parents’ worries over child safety</title>
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		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/02/17/3544/</link>
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		<title>TalkTalk announces launch of Government-backed ‘Active Choice’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I blogged about our reaction to the Government’s Bailey Review into the commercialisation of children, and specifically that we welcomed the recommendation that parents should be offered an ‘active choice’ about whether to use parental controls. We committed to implementing this for all new customers by October 2012 and today I am really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/02/07/talktalk-announces-launch-of-government-backed-%e2%80%98active-choice%e2%80%99-2/</link>
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		<title>Child internet safety in the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Child internet safety has been in the news again this week following a spam attack of indecent images on a social network.  While this instance was due to malicious hacking, our Life Online research has shown that the risks of exposing children to inappropriate content is very real:
•	17% of six year olds and 39% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/11/17/child-internet-saftey-in-the-news/</link>
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