ThinkUKnow

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**ThinkUKnow**
The ThinkUKnow homepage, with links to the main sections of the website and tabs linking to other related websites.
URL	http://www.thunkuknow.co.uk/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Government
Registration	No
Owner	Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
Created by	Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre Education Team

ThinkUKnow is the education programme of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre aimed at Young People, and encourages safety online. It is based around 3 key themes;

How to Have Fun
How to Stay In Control (or How to Take Control)
How to Report a Problem

The Education programme consists of a presentation, which is given to young people in schools, youth groups and other youth environments, a website aimed directly at young people, which also contains information for teachers and parents, a number of hard hitting education films, designed to make Young People think about who they are talking to online and other resources including posters and a range of promotional material.

1 The Website
- 1.1 Young People
- 1.2 Adults
2 Presentation
3 Films
- 3.1 Clare's Story
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] The Website

[edit] Young People

The website was originally started in 2001 by the home office, and was advertised on television and in cinemas, however in April 2006, it was taken over by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre, who now keep it running. The website was designed by Contrapositive, with input from the CEOP Centre's dedicated youth panel, to make it relevant to young people. Currently the website is split into 3 main areas, each linked to one of the programmes main themes, and a colour, which runs throughout pages in that area of the website, and also the presentation, with the website then being split into 8 areas in each of these (except How to Report) each about a new technology, and how to either have fun with it safely or how to stay in control when using it. The section entitled how to report includes information on what can be reported to the CEOP centre online, and how to do this, and fills only one page.

[edit] Adults

The website also includes a teachers area, this allows teachers and other youth workers who want to give the presentation to register to find out more, and also those already trained to request additional training materials. Currently, the links to the Parents Area go to the Get Advice pages of the CEOP website.

[edit] Presentation

The programme also contains a flash-based interactive presentation, which is given to young people in Schools and other youth environments. It is based around the programmes three main themes, with colour coded screens for each, and the education films embedded. It is designed to be talked through by a presenter, and includes points for discussion and demonstrations, like online reporting. It was originally estimated that between September 2006 and March 2007, 1 million young people would have seen the presentation, although it has since emerged that this will be nearer half a million, and a million by the end of the academic year

[edit] Films

Both the website and presentation include hard-hitting education films, and currently three have been released.

[edit] Clare's Story

Clare's story was the first film, made by Straker films for the centre before it opened in early 2006, and was featured excessively in media coverage of the launch. It uses 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' by 'Oasis' and opens with Clare, a teenage girl crying, having just been abused, then goes in reverse to show her leaving the attackers home, and meeting her attacker. It proceeds to show them chatting over MSN Messenger before they met up, and then she is asked to "take her top off", she then reports it through the CEOP centre's website and she is free to continue her life as normal.