Child Benefits cuts grab the headlines while cuts to Ceop- the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre slip through almost unnoticed!

[Livingbytheriver]

The government want to merge Ceop despite so many experts agreeing that it is a bad idea...now the Chief Executive has resigned it has made the headlines.

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Many "experts" also believe that it's good that he's gone.

Basically the boss decided that being the head of his own private little empire was more important than protecting children, so he walked.

They could have done a lot more good with their £11 million budget by educating people about the internet rather than engaging in pointless but high profile arguments with Facebook over an irrelevant button.

Well they did educate regarding internet safety (e.g think u know)...but it is not really any surprise that many other experts think that it is good that he has now gone, that?s how it works...if a government wants to make a cut, then there will of course be experts that are there to agree?

The facebook button being irrelevant is matter of opinion really...

"if a government wants to make a cut, then there will of course be experts that are there to agree"

Well we don't know if it is an actual "cut". The bosses grumbles and statements don't seem to be about funding but more about him wanting to maintain CEOP's "independence".

The Facebook button is irrelevant. Kids under 13 aren't meant to be on there anyway and having an app for it is by no means the victory that he tried to pretend that it was. Pretty much anyone can put an app on Facebook and it's voluntary and not there for every "child".

The effort and energy he put into tackling Facebook could have been used productively elsewhere, but then that wouldn't have attracted the headlines, so it does make you question what the real point was.

Plus the way to keep kids safe on line is not to encourage them to download apps willy nilly on facebook and get all their friends to (which is what you had to do with the CEOP button).

I'm very glad Gamble has gone, he was a self-aggrandising rent-a-quote, the comments made by one of his quango cronies on Today yesterday were outrageous, basically claiming that CEOP under the NCA was 'pro-paedophile'.

The true aims of CEOP will be much better served by being part of the NCA and fully accountable rather than some sabre-rattling quango.