Lyneham Village Online Rated Child Safe

Internet watchdogs have launched new systems as part of ongoing attempts to keep children safe on the web. Worries about child safety on the net are the number one concern for parents and high-profile cases where children have met paedophiles online have intensified fears in recent years.

A labelling system developed by the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) enjoys the backing of some of the world's top sites including Yahoo, MSN and AOL. The system is designed to give parents control over net content by blocking access to certain sites and chatrooms known to be used by paedophiles.

The filters can be sent to block access to nudity, violence, drug and alcohol promotions. Parents can download the software free from ICRA's website and can either opt for pre-set filters or set up their own depending on how much freedom they want their children to have.

Lyneham Village Online has been rated as a safe area for children. It has been have developed as an environment that is safe for your children to browse. We are emphatically against the misuse of the Internet and will always strive to ensure that Lyneham Village Online maintains the highest level of scrutiny. The pages built on this website will pass the filtering system used by ICRA software.

The site is monitored constantly, especially in the interactive areas and numerous upgrades have been carried out to ensure the wrong information is alleviated straight away. All the pages have been designed to protect children from unsavoury content. The filter works by persuading websites to place a cinema-style rating in their source code. No filter system could be 100% safe though, such filters were not designed to take the place of parental supervision.

You wouldn't leave a child wandering around Leicester Square and you shouldn't leave them totally alone on the web. Computers should not be buried away in the corner of the child's room.

We do not make judgements about what is good or bad. Parents decide and they have a strong, legitimate concern about what children are doing on the internet. We can assure parents that this site has been built with the intention to be as near as complete "totally child safe".