Editor's view

There is no doubt that the internet has changed all our lives. The childcare sector may have been slow to adopt new technology, but nearly all early years professionals are now using the web to find advice and information, support topic work with the children, maybe access distance learning courses, and speed up communications for business and personal life through e-mail and more. But the internet has also enabled child pornography to proliferate and be distributed around the world at a shocking and alarming rate. Ever younger children are involved; international criminal gangs are increasingly running such operations as huge...