With Ofcom figures showing that 19 per cent of three- and four-year-olds and 43 per cent of five- to- seven-year-olds own tablets, which the majority use to access online content, the NCA says it wants to encourage adults to start a dialogue about online safety with young children.
This is the first time the agency is engaging with younger children in a bid to protect them online in light of rocketing numbers of child sexual abuse referrals globally.
The NCA’s new resource, to be used by practitioners, teachers and parents with four- to-seven-year-olds, is based upon a three-episode animation series called Jessie & Friends. It is designed to teach children to recognise manipulative strategies in online chat like those typically used by offenders to groom children.
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