Its report made several recommendations for protecting children on the internet, including improved supervision of chat rooms and better display of safety messages.
[4] A report published by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 31 July 2008 contained various recommendations among which were:[5] On 29 September 2008 Children's Secretary Ed Balls and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced the launch of UKCCIS, which was supported by organisations including Google, Yahoo, BT, Microsoft, and Facebook, and which had an initial brief to deliver a "Child Internet Safety Strategy" to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in early 2009.
In addition they were also to investigate ways and means of "tackling problems around online bullying, safer search features, and violent video games."
The government asked the Council to set up a working group involving charities and industry to try to reduce the blocking of sex education advice for young people.
Research was carried out on inadvertent blocking and charities were consulted to find out the degree to which the introduction filters had reduced their website visitor numbers.