Online Safety

Please follow the link below to the National Online Safety website.  You will find lots of really useful information and guides to support you with keeping your child safe whilst online, to understand online dangers and how best to react should an incident arise.

https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

Since the start of the pandemic, the amount of ‘self-generated’ child abuse imagery has increased dramatically. In 2020, the IWF confirmed 68,000 cases of such imagery, a rise of 77% on the year before. It accounts for nearly half (44%) the imagery we took action on last year. In 80% of these cases, the victims were 11- to 13-year-old girls.

The IWF has created a resource to help parents and carers understand the risks of ‘self-generated child sexual abuse imagery’ using the acronym ‘TALK’.

TALK Checklist by Internet Watch Foundation | Home (iwf.org.uk)

Social Media Checklist
This site gives you information about the media sites and provides downloadable booklets that have step by step guides of how to access, delete, block or report accounts.

https://swgfl.org.uk/resources/checklists/ 

Additional resources

Online safety issues - advice to support children| Internet Matters

Digital Parenting | Vodafone

NHS England » Schools resources

TALK Checklist by Internet Watch Foundation | Home (iwf.org.uk)

Online safety issues - advice to support children| Internet Matters