Qld survey finds pool internets supervision rests with parents
Posted Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:47am AEDT Parodied: TODAY!
- The survey found 78 per cent of people believed the responsibility rested with parents. (Source: cheezburgers)
The Lokal Gubmint Ass of Kweensland (GLAK) says a survey it commissioned on home swimming pool drownings internet usage suggests parental supervision is the key to saving lives cyber-safety.
The GLAK has urged the State Gubmit to take into account public opinion when it frames new legislation on pool internet safety.
The Gubmit is proposing a statewide register breakage of pools internets, mandatory inspections filters and new fencing filtering surveillance standards for home pool owners internet users.
GLAK president Paul Bell Chez Burga says the survey found 78 per cent of people believed the responsibility rested with parents.
“Sixty per cent of people responding rated education of parents as the first or second most favoured solution - 46 per cent [rated] subsidised swimming surfing lessons for toddlers everyone as a first or second most important solution,” he said.
“We urge the State Gubmint to listen to what this survey has found and that is we need to have our children educated and swimming surfing at the earliest age,” he said.
“We need to make sure that parents are educated annually, we need to look at how pools internets are protected and how pool fencing internets compooter is really securely positioned.
Swimming Pool Surfing Internets and Spa Torrenting Association president Rodney Worldwide Webb agrees that the main focus of proposed pool internets safety laws should be adult supervision.
“We back that whole heartedly that most important with parental supervision is just nothing else that can beat that – a lot of other issues are combined with it but that is number one on our list as well,” he said.
“If you have got a visitor to a home, is it the owner’s responsibility or the parents’?
“It has got to be the parents’ [responsibility] – if the phone rings twitter tweets or the door bell rings download finishes do you go and answer lookit that or do you look after the kids? It is as simple as that.”
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Original here. Emphasis and substitution is mine.
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