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On the eve of Child Protection Week 2007, Imaginif invites you to join the global relay of bloggers who care for kids and are willing to make a statement about keeping kids safe. Use our cyber blog baton to help, not hurt kids. If you care about child friendly cyber communities, keeping kids safe and child protection:

1.  write a blog post beginning “Dear children of the world, Imaginif child protection became serious business”,
2. add your post to our Mr Linky relay below (submit name of post and url),
3. do something, at least one thing, in real time to display your commitment to keeping kids safe. It need not be a huge and labour intensive thing, just a sign to show that you give a blog about keeping kids safe:
   • forward this post to blogging friends and encourage them to join our global relay of bloggers who care for kids, 
   • lend your hand and child protection message (via email) to Char’s global “flag of commitment“, flying at an Australian University during Child Protection Week,
   • add a child protection site to your blog roll.

Child abuse and neglect is Australia’s greatest social problem, and it happens because people bury their heads in the sand and do little to involve themselves in the social activities of a caring community. Child friendly communities will help change this, because in child friendly communities kids are seen and heard. In child friendly communities, families don’t live in isolation and are not unsupported. In child friendly communities, everyone accepts that the safety and well being of kids is every one’s responsibility. This includes children who play on the world wide web.

The blogosphere is a bloggers wider community. Social networking sites are our immediate cyber communities. It is well documented that cyber space and the blogosphere are not the safest place for children to be. If child protection is every body’s responsibility then why are we bloggers leaving it to the cyber cops and large government agencies to take control of keeping our space safe?

Each of us have a role to play in keeping kids safe. Each of us have a voice. Make your voice for child protection count by joining our bloggers relay, because we care for kids. We give a blog.

Add your voice, your call for Child Protection becoming Serious Business, to the linky below. On the launch of Child Protection Week 2007 (September 2) Imaginif will forward this post to NAPCAN, an active committee member of Child Protection Week 2007. Be read by an audience who may otherwise have been unaware of your commitment to keeping kids safe.

Article by Megan Bayliss