A HOME office report, which warns parents to move computers out of their children's bedrooms to protect them from internet paedophiles, has been described as "totally unnecessary" by a new internet service provider.

The new provider V21 is about to change web history by ensuring that there is no need for parents to worry about children's internet access, a factor not accounted for in the Home Office report.

Unlike search engines that have family-friendly switches that only work when searching through that engine, V21 overwrites Internet Explorer to omit all adult material at all times from all sources.

Thames Valley Police does not endorse individual programmes but urged parents to consider all electronic safeguards to protect their children.

Guy Bailey, a Thames Valley Police spokesman, added: "Parents should be able to trust their child enough to be responsible and if they do find something that does make them uncomfortable, the child should be able to go to their parents and say.

"Obviously having the computer in a public place in the house does help but technical safe guards should also be utilised."

Recent media research has revealed that an estimated three-quarters of a million images of children being sexually abused are circulating internationally on the internet.

Kevin Baigent, who pioneered the programme, was so incensed by the free availability of pornography and other harmful information on the net that he gave up his job as a social worker in a mission to clean up the web.

He said: "There has been so much negative publicity about the internet that it is easy to forget just how much decent, informative and educational information is available to children.

"It is undeniable that any children who surf the web, using chat rooms or newsgroups, can be vulnerable pray to countless numbers of paedophiles.

"Never before have parents been more aware of the hidden dangers to their children that lurk on the World Wide Web.

"In the last six years more than 2,000 men have been convicted for internet sex offences. These statistics are frightening"

The family friendly programme costs £14.99 per month and includes unlimited access and call charges.