The CEOP Education Team have put together a dark web explainer video in collaboration with the Children’s Society and the Marie Collins Foundation, including factsheets for professionals, parents and carers. The video briefly explains what the dark web is, why young people might want to go on it and what to do if a young …
The transition from Y6 to Y7 is an exciting and daunting one. Arguably the online risks and issues become greater as technology use increases and the child moves into their adolescent years. Childnet have created a number of free resources which can be used by parents to help with this transition. Videos include: Marvin wants …
Many parents/carers are not aware of the features that are available on devices, internet etc. which can be used to help protect their children. Internet Matters have a huge range of advice and guidance, which includes simple guides to set up devices including tablets, phones, gaming devices and much more. A good starting page which …
Wordle is a new, very simple game which has grown to extraordinary levels of popularity over the last few months. In the main it is a very safe game but with the rise in popularity it’s important to be aware as there are a couple of concerns. Internet Matters have written a great, short article …
Many incidents police are currently dealing with are related to TikTok, some of the children involved are in Y2/3, most are Y6/7 and you can imagine if they have required police intervention they are all very serious. It’s important that we keep ourselves up to date with the risks and issues. OpenView Education have put …
Supervised Experience builds on the historic (and pretty poor) Restricted Mode, which is essentially a filter allowing users to block content which is deemed for adult users only. There are now 3 filtering levels which are: Explore – for users 9+. Explore More – for users 13+ Most of YouTube – all content excluding content …
Gurls Out Loud is a campaign from the Internet Watch Foundation to empower girls to block, report and tell someone if they are asked by an adult for explicit images. “Every day girls are contacted online by adults who try to manipulate them…..our mission is to help you and all the girls you care about …
Pre-lockdown the large majority of students using this app were game based. Often children would use the Discord app to have conversations, share tactics etc. with their friends whilst playing their online games. But curiously the popularity of Discord has increased massively post lockdown and the majority of people are using the app just for …
Internet Matters have done it again, this time a personalised online safety toolkit you can use at home. By answering a few simple questions you can get age-specific advice, learn about popular apps, information on how to deal with any concerns and also tools to support your family’s interests and wellbeing. You can find the …
Squid Game is a South Korean TV series on Netflix. Released mid-September it became an overnight success and is now the most popular series on Netflix. The series centres around hundreds of players, all of whom are in debt, to play a series of 6 games, all of which have deadly consequences: you fail, you …
