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elixir786's avatar
elixir786
Joining in
12 months ago

Child Safe not working

Hi, 

I have had child safe on and its always worked almost perfectly. But it seems to have stopped working. Please can you advise. Ive searched the forums but it seems there no fix (as far as i could tell)

  • Hi Exlixir786,

    Thank you for your post and welcome to the community. 

    I'm very sorry to hear about this. To confirm, have you checked your online account to see if it is still active?

    ^Martin

    • Yorkie72's avatar
      Yorkie72
      Joining in

      I have the same problem. Child Safe is on, but not working (for three days now). It has always worked before. 

      • Daniel_Et's avatar
        Daniel_Et
        Forum Team

        Hi Yorkie72 👋 Thank you for your post and welcome to the Virgin Media Community 😀

        We're sorry to hear about the problem you're having 😔

        In order to look into this for you further, we'll send you a private message on here. Look out for the envelope in the top right-hand corner.

        If you're on a portable device with a smaller screen, click on the icon in the top right-hand corner and select "messages" from the additional menu options.

        Regards,
        Daniel

  • I have the same problem.  It happens intermittently, and I have raised several complaints with Virgin Media previously but not received a clear answer.

    It is a safeguarding issue but does not seem to have high enough priority with Virgin Media.

    • Ilyas_Y's avatar
      Ilyas_Y
      Forum Team

      Hey pbejon Thanks for reaching out to us.👋🏼

      I'm sorry to hear about the issues with web safe and child safe. 😞
      I will assist you on this and provide you the support needed.

      I will send a private message.

      Kind regards,
      Ilyas.

    • Ilyas_Y's avatar
      Ilyas_Y
      Forum Team

      Thanks for speaking with us today pbejon on the VM forums. 👋🏼

      I'm glad we have been able to assist in relation to this query for the web safe by changing the settings on our end.
      As advised - we will continue to gather more of these cases as the numbers are rising and will let everyone know of what the issue is.

      In the meantime, any other queries - reach out to us and we'll assist wherever and however we can.

      Kind regards,
      Ilyas.

  • It has started working again.  I am not sure if this is due to follow up or just random.  It would be good to have an explanation on why this happens from time to time and what can be done to stop it happening.

  • I'm still puzzled as to what the issue is.  You mention that settings were changed on your end - what sort of settings were these and why were those settings needed for childsafe to work? 

    Also, it seems to me that childsafe started working again before you reported changing any settings, so perhaps there is no connection.

    It is the 2nd time this has happened to me, it seems to have happened to others, and I think more of an investigation is needed at VM beyond saying that some settings have been changed.

    • Paul_DN's avatar
      Paul_DN
      Forum Team

      Hi pbejon,

      Thank you for reaching back out, we appreciate your concern and understand you don't wan't this to continue to  happen, as advised we are compiling all possible information and this is being investigated.

      Regards

      Paul.

  • I replied on a different thread regarding the same issue and have had no response, I have had this happen numerous times and yet again I’m in the same situation, security and safeguarding do not seem to be a priority for VM and there appears to be no quick fix? I’ve waited for hours on messages with WhatsApp and today yet again 2 hours with no agent talking to me! I need support with this as a matter of urgency. 

    • Lee_R's avatar
      Lee_R
      Forum Team

      Hi Shazza2003 thanks for posting and welcome to our community.

      Sorry to hear that your child safe is not doing its job.  And for any inconvenience this may be causing you. I'd like to take a look on your behalf. I am going to send you a private message. Please keep an eye on your inbox in the top right of your screen.

      Regards

      Lee_R

  • It seems to me that this is a widely reported issue, and the VirginMedia response is the same to each of us - private messages asking us to clear security, then feedback that settings have been adjusted at the VirginMedia end, and eventually child safe starts working again.  But there is no expedited way of reporting this to VM when it happens, and no feedback on what is wrong with the VM system that it keeps failing in this way.

    I think this is something that we all ought to raise with the Ombudsmen to ask for feedback.

    • John_GS's avatar
      John_GS
      Forum Team

      Good evening pbejon 

      Thanks for posting and welcome back to the community.

      We can confirm there's not an overall issue and the reason for the PM is that we've often been able to resolve these issues for people.

      If you do experience any issues with the service, please get in touch.

      Best wishes.

  • Does Virgin Media keep figures on how many complaints it gets relating to child safe going down?  Or does Virgin Media run any proactive checks on whether child safe is working without waiting for customers to complain?