Online Safety
National Online Safety
In order to support parents with online safety and to safeguard our children, we send out guides from the National Online Safety every month on different areas of online safety, such as gaming and social media.
These guides are extremely informative and are updated regularly and can be found at:
NSPCC
The NSPCC also has some very useful information for parents and carers about how to protect your child when they are online.
This information can be found at:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
Digital Parenting
A wealth of information about how to enjoy tech safely as a family. This site is regularly updated with articles and advice from experts and contains resources and support to help you make the right digital choices.
Digital Parenting Advice and Support
Parent Zone - Tools and Advice
Parental Control Guidance for Devices
Click the links below to find guidance on parental controls:
Setting screen time on apple devices
Parental controls - Youtube Kids
Parental controls for android devices
TikTok Guidance
To have an account on a social social media platform like TikTok, Instagram, Whatapp, children should be 13 years or older.
Whatsapp Guidance
Guidance on Gaming
Cyberbullying
Please see the links below for information and advice on cyberbullying.
Internet Matters - Cyberbullying advice
National Online Safety Day - February 2023
Below is a picture of the Safer Internet Day leaflet for parents and carers. A PDF of it is available to download underneath, which contains hyperlinks to the further support. The arrows show where the hyperlinks are on the downloadable leaflet.
