Just as you do not expect the highways agency to stop any cars coming down your road so you can let your children play on the tarmac unsupervised, please don't expect us to try and block unsavoury content on the Internet - we could not do that even if we wanted to - just look at how ineffective blocks on the pirate bay have become, and that is just trying to block one web site!

Recent OFCOM reports show that kids know how to bypass blocks and that most parents feel that their children know more than they do about the Internet.

Simply use a search engine to look for parental controls - there are many packages, free, and paid for, and even built in to many computers to help manage access to the Internet on a per user, and age appropriate, basis. If you are not sure, please do call our support staff who can point you in the right direction, or consider simply supervising younger children instead.

We do have some tools to help if you are trying to avoid some accidental access to unsavoury material for younger children. Ensuring safe search is set on search pages is a start. But there are tools you control if you want. We can pre-configure the router we supply with alternative DNS servers such as openDNS if you wish - just ask support. But do not be lulled in to any false sense of security - this is good to help with younger children and accidental exposure to some web sites, that is all.