Paedophiles will be moved out of hostels close to schools and nurseries following a campaign by the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne.

Home Secretary John Reid is also considering giving parents more information about sex offenders living in their area.

The move is being hailed as a victory by Sara Payne who has been campaigning for the introduction of Sarah's Law since her daughter was murdered in July, 2000.

Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe has been ordered to travel to the US to see how Megan's Law, a similar system for monitoring peadophiles, works there.

Eight-year-old Sarah was abducted and murdered as she played in a cornfield near her grandparents' home at Kingston Gorse, near Littlehampton.

Paedophile Roy Whiting, 47, was jailed for 50 years after he was convicted at the end of an emotional trial at Lewes Crown Court four years ago.

Whiting had earlier been jailed for four years for kidnapping and assaulting a schoolgirl and had refused therapy while in prison.

Mr Reid has instructed the National Offender Management Service to move paedophiles out of 11 hostels close to schools and nurseries nationally.

The Home Office has also published a list of 100 hostels, including one at an undisclosed location in Brighton, which are approved to take sex offenders.

Sara Payne, 37, who lives in Surrey, said: "At last the Government is beginning to wake up and address paedophilia.

"The Home Office decision to send a minister to America to explore and perhaps at last implement a British version of Megan's Law is music to my ears.

"The expulsion of 60 sex offenders from hostels near schools is another important victory and I praise the Government for the decision.

"I have been campaigning for six years to make this country a safer place for our children because the Government had failed in its duty."