Online Safety

Before we start - remember the SMART rules to help you stay safe online

Childnet's SMART Rules for Online Safety are a key part of our school "Charter for Responsible Computer Use" and children are regularly reminded to be SMART when they go online in school. Click the image below to open a PDF of our Charter in a new window.

It's important that children keep their information private and safe when they go online. See this video from Lego - Captain Safety has some great tips.

Useful online safety documents

Our "go to" organisations for online safety

www.saferinternet.org.uk/ for the latest tips, advice and resources to help children and young people have a safe and positive time online. Their resources for parents and carers are here.
Safer Internet Day is the annual online safety event held by the UK Safer Internet Centre, a partnership between Childnet International, Internet Watch Foundation and South West Grid for Learning (see below for more on SWGfL). They are part-funded by the European Union and part of the Insafe-INHOPE network and publish useful guides about online safety.
The South West Grid for Learning (swgfl) is a charity ensuring children benefit from technology, free from harm.

Parent Zone

Parent Zone is a social enterprise - so works like a charity but is a not-for-profit business and re-invests all profits into their projects. Promoting a healthy and safe digital life to parents and carers, children and professionals, their free services help to build the skills needed to deal with the online world. They work with corporate partners to develop new ideas - two examples follow:
Parent Info is their newsfeed, developed by Parent Zone in collaboration CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection command). A free service, it shares articles, tips, blogs, expert advice and resources to help parents and carers keep up with their children's on-line activities. They also run virtual parent/carer sessions about online safety (from cyberbullying to sharing carefully) - please click the link for details.
Be Internet Legends is Parent Zone's online safety adventure for families and has been developed in partnership with Google. It helps parents and carers to keep their families safer online and includes:
- the Parents' Hub: to help parents and carers to help their children be smarter, safer and happier explorers of the online world
- Interland, an interactive game for children
- the Legends Family Adventure, a short animated series by Aardman Animations about a journey to Interland.
- Find out more about becoming safer and savvier explorers of the online world by clicking the links above.

Guides

Parental Controls Advice

APPLE https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201304
MICROSOFT https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/search?query=parental%20controls
ANDROID/CHROME https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1075738?hl=en-GB

Useful links for children (in alphabetical order by group)

www.childnet.com/young-people - helping to make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people: Childnet developed the SMART rules which form the online section of our school "Charter for Responsible Computer Use" - remind yourself of them HERE - Get SMART from Childnet
www.childline.org.uk/ - a free, private and confidential service where you can talk about anything - we’re here for you online, on the phone (0800 1111), anytime
http://www.reportharmfulcontent.com/child - helping the Under-18s to report harmful content online
www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ - the education programme from a UK organisation which protects children both online and offline

Useful links for parents and carers

betterinternetforkids.eu online portal for Parents and carers has advice to help parents guide their children through topical online safety issues and news, published in a range of languages.
www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers - a non-profit organisation helping to make the internet a great and safe place for children
www.connectsafely.org/parentguides/ - by parents, for parents and carers: a growing collection of clearly-written PDF guidebooks that demystify apps, services and platforms popular with kids and teens
www.internetmatters.org/ - helping parents and carers keep their children safe online
www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls / - step by step guides to help you set up the right controls and privacy settings on networks, gadgets, apps, and sites for a safer online experience
https://www.net-aware.org.uk/ - your guide to social networks, apps and games
o2.co.uk/help/nspcc - here to help you, as parents and carers, make it easy for your kids to confidently explore this world safely, and navigate away from any dangers
www.reportharmfulcontent.com - helping everyone to report harmful content online
www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/ - Thinkuknow is an education programme from the National Crime Agency’s CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) Command
www.vodafone.com/content/parents/digital-parenting.html - helping your family live a happy and safe digital life - you can sign up for a printed copy of the Digital Parenting Magazine

Apps

www.bbc.com/ownit - helping children to take control of their online lives

Cyber bullying

www.antibullyingalliance.org.uk/cyber-bullying.html - advice on what to do about the unkind (and sometimes anonymous) use of digital technology - this can happen 24 hours a day
www.cybersmile.org/advice-help/category/advice-parents - a US anti-cyberbullying nonprofit organisation committed to tackling all forms of digital abuse

Helping with new devices

https://eephonesmart.co.uk/ EE have created the PhoneSmart Licence, a course that prepares children for the online world that their new phone presents by teaching them how to stay safe and be kind online.

Media (games, movies etc)

www.askaboutgames.com/ - supported by video game publishers and retailers in the UK who are keen to ensure their products are enjoyed by suitable audiences - here to help if you have a question about games and age ratings

www.commonsensemedia.org/ - rates movies, TV shows, books, and more so parents and carers can feel good about the entertainment choices they make for their kids

pegi.info - helping parents and carers to make informed decisions when buying video games by providing age classifications for video games in 38 European countries - PEGI considers the age suitability of a game, not the level of difficulty

Reporting (e.g. images, contact, grooming, content etc)

www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ - online reporting to one of CEOP's Child Protection Advisors
www.inhope.org/EN - reporting images of abuse
www.iwf.org.uk/ - anonymously and confidentially report images

Search engine for children

swiggle.org.uk/ - brought to you by the South West Grid for Learning in association with Google

A-Z of Online Safety

Online Safety At Home from ThinkUKnow

In Spring 2020, ThinkUKnow (from NCA-CEOP, the UK organisation protecting children both online and offline) produced fortnightly activity sheets during lockdown on "Online Safety At Home" for parents and carers to go through with their children. They are still useful today so we have linked to them below:

For EYFS:

This area will show all documents uploaded to the /docs/children/all_year_groups/online_safety_at_home/eyfs folder.

Documents will be shown in alphabetical order.
To list in date order, the folder should contain the word 'letter' or 'minute'.

For KS1:

This area will show all documents uploaded to the /docs/children/all_year_groups/online_safety_at_home/ks1 folder.

Documents will be shown in alphabetical order.
To list in date order, the folder should contain the word 'letter' or 'minute'.

For KS2:

This area will show all documents uploaded to the /docs/children/all_year_groups/online_safety_at_home/ks2 folder.

Documents will be shown in alphabetical order.
To list in date order, the folder should contain the word 'letter' or 'minute'.