National Collage - What Parents & Educators Need to Know Guides
Cybersafe Scotland educate and support parents. Their sessions support digital parenting, empowering parents to get involved with their children's online safety in order to protect them in situations where they cannot protect themselves.
This website provides parents with a wealth of information about helping to keep children safe online. As well as other information, this website includes guides on:
Parental controls offered by home internet providers.
Guides to different types of technology e.g. smartphones, gaming devices, tablets and smart televisions.
Safety tools on social networks and other online services e.g. web browsers.
Internet Matters is a UK-based, not-for-profit organization that provides parents, carers, and professionals with evidence-based resources, guides, and advice to help keep children safe and happy online, covering topics from social media risks and parental controls to digital literacy and online wellbeing for all ages.
The National Crime Agency's CEOP Education team aim to help protect children and young people from online child sexual abuse.
We do this through our education programme, providing training, resources and information to professionals working with children, young people and their families.
Common Sense Media (CSM) is a non-profit organization that provides age-based ratings, reviews, and guidance for movies, TV shows, books, apps, games, and websites, helping parents and educators navigate media choices for children.
Parent Club Scotland is the Scottish Government's online hub providing trusted, evidence-based advice, tips, and support for parents and carers through all stages of family life, from pregnancy to teenage years, covering health, education, wellbeing, and finances, with input from experts and other parents.
CEOP - Child Exploitation and Online Protection
A police agency tackling child abuse on the internet. This website includes a unique facility that enables parents and young people to make reports of actual or attempted abuse online. This button, which will be found on many different sites will take you straight to the CEOP website.
https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_uk/parents
"Internet Legends" refers to Google and Parent Zone's "Be Internet Legends" program, a free educational initiative teaching UK children (ages 7-11) online safety, digital citizenship, and critical thinking skills through lessons, activities, and an interactive game called Interland, helping them navigate scams, bullying, privacy, and misinformation safely.
NSPCC provide advice to support parent/carers to understand apps to setting parental controls. they provide information and resources to help you understand online safety and talk about it with children and young people.