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How Children are Making Money from Online Gaming

An interesting article about how young people are making money from their online gaming

Online Safety Bill PASSED!

A hugely significant piece of legislation was passed earlier this week. The Online Safety Bill is a key policy that will ensure that children and young people should be even safer online in the future. Click below to read a couple of articles which outline what the bill actually means in reality

Britain makes internet safer, as Online Safety Bill finished and ready to become lawOnline Safety Bill passes its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law.

The Online Safety Bill has been passed in "a momentous day for children"After years of campaigning, the Online Safety Bill will soon be made a law, and will help protect children from online abuse

A Guide to Online Reporting

SWGfL Release Online Reporting HubWe’ve created this brand-new hub that gives you all the information you need around how to report harmful online content.

New Guide to Using Twitch

Your Guide to TwitchYour Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here If you have a gamer in your household, chances are you’ve heard the word ‘Twitch’ being used. The name sounds fun, age-appropriate, and harmless. It would be easy to assume it is a type of game or a new slang word. In reality,

National Child Exploitation Awarness Day

National Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2023Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here The focus of this year’s National Child Exploitation Awareness Day is on child sexual exploitation. The day aims to highlight issues on the topic and encourage people to think, spot and speak out against abuse. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We all have a role to play in

New TikTok Challenge to Watch For

Safeguarding Alert: Explicit Images Trend on TikTokYour Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here What is the issue? Our safeguarding experts have been made aware of a viral challenge circulating on TikTok using variations of the hashtag ‘foopah’. A play on the phrase ‘faux pas’ (an embarrassing public act), the trend

A Guide to ChatGPT

Guide to ChatGPT for Parents and CaregiversFind out how the artificial intelligence (AI) tool works and how to talk with kids about it. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

How Safe is JusTalk App?

How safe is the JusTalk App?Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here What is the JusTalk app and is it safe for young people? Schools and safeguarding professionals are reporting that children and young people are receiving harmful and inappropriate messages on the JusTalk app. After an investigation by our Online Safety Experts, we

A Review of Harmful Content (including A Tate & Hustlers University)

A Review of Harmful Content OnlineYour Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here It is not difficult to imagine harmful or abusive behaviours being present on social media. What can be challenging to deal with is the presence of popular online personalities or influencers who become well-known and even famous for exhibiting this behaviour over

A Guide to E-Sports (Podcast)

"Wizz and HiPal Walkie Talkie!

Wizz and HiPal Walkie Talkie: The Safeguarding Risks of Social Networking AppsRecently, friend-finding and social networking apps Wizz and HiPal Walkie Talkie have been topping the charts in their app store categories. Due to their appeal to young people, our experts investigated the apps for potential safeguarding risks, and compiled advice and tips on how to keep the children and young people

"Being Real" on TikTok

Being Real on TikTok NowTikTok has released a new (but familiar!) feature within their app called 'TikTok Now'. Our online safety experts have taken a look to assess what TikTok Now is, the safeguarding concerns that come with it, and the comparisons it has to the popular photo sharing app BeReal.

Do You Know About, "Be Real"?

Recent Live Streaming of Explicit Content on Twitch

Dangerous Online Chat Room-Omegle

Dangerous Online Chat Room - Safeguarding AlertWe have previously reported a dangerous online platform called Omegle and the risks it poses to children and young people who visit it. Following a recent press release and concerns from parents, carers, and safeguarding professionals, we have decided to release further information and guidance. What

Parental Control Apps Review

Parental Control Apps – Online Safety ReviewChildren and young people can spend a significant amount of their time using devices and exploring the online world. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with this – it’s a place for them to socialise, to play, and to learn. However, with Ofcom reporting that 9 in 10 children in the UK will own

A useful overview of some of the most popular apps that currently exist to provide Parental Controls. This review comes from SaferSchools.

Online Challenges & Suicide Prevention Day

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Responding to Online Challenges

Some Useful Links to TikTok's Policies and Help Centre Guidelines

Information Requests Report | TikTokThis report offers insight into the legal requests for user information that we received from government and law enforcement agencies, from July to December 2021.

Supporting Young People with Screen Time Issues on TikTok

Community Guidelines for Use of TikTok

Do You Know About Snapchat's "Meet Up" Feature? If not, click below to find out more

SAFEGUARDING ALERT – Snapchat Meet UpWe have received reports from parents and young people around a new feature found in popular app Snapchat. This feature allows users to obtain directions to another user’s exact location and address. Since its release, many users have expressed their outrage and have called out the platform for including it without

A Resource FOR Children Aged 11-18 from CEOP

A new resource has been created by CEOP, targetting pupils aged (roughly) 11-18 years old.

Click HERE to visit the site

A New Resource FOR Children Aged 4-7 from CEOP

A new resource has been created by CEOP, targetting pupils aged (roughly) 4-7 years old.

Click HERE to visit the site

A descriptor of the resource is below, taken directly from the CEOP website

Featuring characters and messages from the CEOP Education Jessie & Friends resource, the new 4-7s website helps children to develop the skills and knowledge they need to stay safer when spending time online.

Designed for children to visit with their parents, carers or other supervising adults, users complete ‘badges’ where they help the characters, Jessie, Tia and Mo, to identify when to ‘Tell a Grown Up’ (TAG) in different situations online.

Each badge asks a series of questions, aimed at helping children to recognise worrying or frightening situations online. Answering each question correctly earns a star. When children have answered all the questions in a badge and collected three stars, they will get a certificate to download or print and colour in.

How To Add Parental Controls to Home Broadband

Click below to find a 'step by step' guide showing how to add PARENTAL CONTROLS to the most popular broadband and mobile networks. The providers included in the link below are shown in the infographic

Broadband & Mobile Network Parental Controls - Internet MattersWe've pulled together some guides to help you with setting up and managing broadband and mobile network parental controls.

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Safeguarding Soundbites: Exam Stress, Missing Children & More from Safer Schools

Ofcom's 'Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2022'

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2022This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17.

An excellent report which illustrates the latest trends and developments across various aspects of Online Safety

Everything You Need to Know About Apex Legends

Apex Legends: Everything You Need to KnowIn the last few years, battle royale style games like Call of Duty: Warz

How to Become a Better Digital Citizen!

These guides all come from the excellent, National Online Safety site which has over 150 superb guides for how to keep your children safe online.

Want to Know More about "WINK"?

Safer Internet Day 2022

Latest Info Video Guides from Safer Schools

60 Second Update: Wk Beg 10th Jan'22

A Set of Guides to Blocking, Reporting and Ensuring Safety Settings are in Place, on Some of the Most Commonly used Social Media Sites

We have posted some new links on the 'RESOURCES' page, under 'PARENTS' which show how to REPORT, BLOCK and change SAFETY SETTINGS on some of the most popular and commonly used Social Media sites.

Click HERE to visit this page to find out more!

Latest Videos from Safer Schools Team

A Guide to a Safe, Connected Christmas

All About 'Poppy Playtime'

Yubo, Poppy Playtime-Latest 60 Sec Update

Bullying Beyond the Classroom

With the recent, well-publicised issues that a number of staff have been having, around pupil use of TikTok to make wholly innappropriate posts and videos about members of school staff, we wanted to flag up an excellent support resource which any staff member can utilise to get advice and support around dealing with such an issue. This service is free and has the power to request the 'take-down' of such posts, directly from the social media company themselves.

Click HERE to visit the POSH Helpline

***Updated Resources for School Staff***

The bank of resources for schools to access in order to provide support around Online Safety has been updated (25th Nov'21) and now includes a number of brand new and updated links to excellent support and guidance. The Padlet below, contains all of the links for schools to use.

A Guide To Helping Young People Navigate 'Stunts' (e.g. TikTok Challenge)

Help Kids Navigate Viral Social Media StuntsLearn why kids participate in viral social media challenges and how you can help them make responsible decisions. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

Safer Schools' 60 Second Update

(Wk beg 1st November)

A Helpful Guide to DISCORD

The World According to Discord: Your Guide to the Online Chat PlatformEvery day, we see the release of new apps and new features that promise to help keep you more connected to others. One of the most popular online spaces for children and young people to connect is Discord. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about this platform and why it presents

Digital Parenting Week 2021:

11th-15th October

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Superb Guides to Setting up Parental Controls on Android Device or iPhone

Check out these excellent guides from https://nationalonlinesafety.com/ which talk parents through how to set up PARENTAL CONTROLS for both Android Devices and iPhones

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