UK (MMD Newswire) May 25, 2011 – – A new dedicated team of experts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre will strengthen and lead the UK’s ability to respond to missing children, Home Office Minister James Brokenshire announced today. Speaking on International Missing Children’s Day, the minister outlined that CEOP will, from [...]

Australia (MMD Newswire) May 31, 2011 – – The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy and Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, today launched National Cyber Security Awareness Week 2011. National Cyber Security Awareness Week is an Australian Government initiative held annually in partnership with industry, consumer and community organisations, as well as [...]

UK (MMD Newswire) May 31, 2011 – – UK National Centre for Child Protection publishes annual results for safeguarding children and tracking child sex offenders In 2010-11: 414 children safeguarded 513 child sex offenders arrested 132 child sex offender networks disrupted and dismantled 414 children have been safeguarded or protected in the last year from [...]

CASPER, WY, (MMD Newswire) June 21, 2011 – – Today, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Janey Thornton addressed the need for more Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) sites across the country to feed low-income children when school is out. During the 2011 Wyoming School Nutrition Association Conference in Casper, Thornton [...]

USDA Release No. 0272.11 USDA and DC Officials Kick-Off Summer Food Service Program for Children USDA Official Highlights Role of Summer Meals Program in Preventing Child Hunger WASHINGTON, (MMD Newswire) June 23, 2011 — USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Administrator Audrey Rowe joined D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Office of the State Superintendent of [...]