More try to access net child porn

This is horrific! I couldn't believe it!
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Some 35,000 attempts to access child pornography websites are blocked in Britain every day, figures showed.

The figures were compiled by BT, which accounts for around a third of the internet market, and it is feared the overall number could be much higher.

They show that attempts to access the websites have tripled since the company introduced its screening technology in June 2004.

The Cleanfeed programme, which prevents users from accessing child porn sites blacklisted by the Internet Watch Foundation, initially registered 10,000 attempts to access by them BT's 3.1 million domestic users each day.

The figures showed there were four million blocked attempts to access the websites over the last four months.

Mike Galvin, director of portfolio infrastructure at BT, said: "Project Cleanfeed plays a part in protecting children worldwide and therefore reduces the viability of this activity as a business.

"However, today's figures clearly demonstrate that this type of activity continues to be an industry-wide problem, and it is therefore critical that online child protection remains high on the agenda."

John Carr, from the National Children's Home charity, told the Daily Mail: "People will be shocked by these figures - they are quite chilling. But this is the size of the issue that we are having to deal with."

The figures were released as it was claimed that internet safety and how to avoid paedophiles should be part of the National Curriculum.

The director of the Cyberspace Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire, Dr Rachel O'Connell, said learning about the dangers posed by the internet should be compulsory in schools. "Online well-being should be a mandatory part of the school curriculum from the day a child starts at school," she said.