Keeping Your Child Safe Online
Children's use of digital technology is one of the biggest threats to a child’s mental and sometimes physical wellbeing. There are 1000’s of applications children use, many with the potential of creating a safeguarding concern and making a child vulnerable online.
The European Commission appointed UK Safer Internet Centre is made up of three partners; Childnet International, the South West Grid for Learning and the Internet Watch Foundation.
Together they raise awareness about internet safety, develop information materials and resources and organise high profile events such as Safer Internet Day. You can access a range of resources from across the UK, Europe and wider afield.
The UK Safer Internet Centre also publish a newsletter which often contains practical and useful information regarding keeping children safe online. The latest newsletter covers issues such as Pokémon Go and keeping safe during the holidays.
National Online Safety (NOS) have some great guides for parents and carers - we regularly retweet updates from NOS on our school Twitter page, and please see some of their advice below.
This advice is for parents and carers about cyberbullying. It provides advice and information about how they can protect their child from cyberbullying and how to tackle it if it happens.
A Guide to helping you manage your child's digital safety:
Supporting children’s safety is a shared responsibility between families, schools and wider society. For parents and carers, this responsibility has become increasingly complex as children’s lives are now deeply intertwined with the digital world. Many parents face difficult decisions about how to balance protecting children from online harm with enabling access to spaces that are now central to learning, socialising and play.
Please see the link to a useful guide on helping parents/carers to manage children's digital lives.
Check out the latest online safety advice from Google. There's some really useful information and top tips to help keep yourself, your children and your family safe online.
Common Sense Media is a great resource for getting to know about not just the apps available, but for all media that children and young people use, watch, read, or have access to.
Social Media
Parent and Social online networking advice- a leaflet offering insight to parents & carers around the dangers of social networking and the appropriate use of social media.
A Parents guide to social media - designed to help you understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely. With it, you will be better informed and able to communicate with young Facebook users in your life.
Parents Portal Links
Our pledge - keeping yourself safe on the web - follow the SMART rules!
