Online safety
Staying Safe Online
For many parents the battle to stay up to date and keep their children safe online is a hard one with new apps every day and ever complex technology. Here are some useful links to help keep children safe online:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/
Helping children to stay safe online remains a challenge so we have compiled some information to help. We have some downloadable documents that are very useful:
WhatsApp: WhatsApp Guide for Parents/Carers
Snapchat: Snapchat Guide for Parents/Carers
TikTok: TikTok Guide for Parents/Carers
Digital Parenting
Part of helping to keep children safe online is being confident to tackle these issues with the children both as a school and as parents/carers. This can be a challenge with children learning about digital media quicker than we can keep up. Vodaphone offer lots of good advice to help with managing the dangers online with your children. How to spot: Screen addiction and the warning signs, online grooming warning signs, advice to prevent extremism, advice for those affected by online bullying, social media and its impact on mental health and advice on staying safe whilst using social media.
Please see the link below to their page and the further links to their newsletter for digital parenting which contains lots of advice:
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/digital-parenting/archive
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/cs/groups/public/documents/document/vodafone_digital_parenting.pdf
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/
As well as this, there is some information to help with other issues such as children “sexting” and accessing online pornography. These guides provide useful advice on how to have conversations with your child should the need arise.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/sexting/