Several charities, including the NSPCC, National Children's Homes and Barnardo's, have warned that roughly 5% of consumer broadband connections - representing nearly 1m people - are still able to access paedophile sites because some ISPs have failed to implement the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) block list.

The Guardian newspaper reports that the group has now written to Vernon Coaker, a Home Office minister in charge of crime reduction, urging him to force all UK ISPs to block customers from being able to view such images:


The government had previously warned that it would only accept 100% take-up of the list and threatened mandatory legislation if this did not happen. It is not known precisely which ISPs have refused to adopt the list; although we suspect that it involves smaller operations.