Progress made on internet filters says government
Internet service providers have made progress in their bid to protect children from pornography, according to the government.
Sky and Talk Talk are to launch family-friendly filters that will be automatically switched on for new accounts.
BT and Virgin are set to introduce something similar within the next two months.
The filters block pornographic websites and can be switched off.
In July David Cameron challenged the internet industry to do more to protect children from pornography.
On Monday, the prime minister will hold an internet safety meeting with firms including Google and Microsoft who have been under pressure to do more to block child abuse images on the internet.
Mr Cameron has previously said access to online pornography was "corroding childhood" and has called for "horrific" internet search terms to be blacklisted, meaning they would bring up no results on search websites.
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