Online Safety
Please find below online safety resources to help support parents and carers with the ever-changing information about staying safe online.
National Online Safety resources
You can find really helpful Parent/Carer guides about social media platforms, setting up Parent/Carer controls on smartphones and safety tips by clicking the pictures below. These will take you to the National Online Safety website. Full guides can be downloaded by clicking on the pictures below.
TikTok
Group Chats
Twitch
Google Chromebook
Wink
Netflix
Steam
Yubo
Fifa
Minecraft
Roblox
Fake News And Scams
Supporting Children To Develop Emotional Literacy
Online Safety Newsletters
ESports
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Among Us
The Dangers Of Vaping
Disney+
Snapchat
Rumble
Managing Screen Time
Discord
Tekken 8
Developing Healthy Sleep Patterns
Clickbait
Using Technology To Boost Reading Skills
Marvel Rivals
Online Relationships and Dating
National College Free Courses
We also want to draw your attention to free parents courses available from National Online Safety, these should provide you with plenty of help in supporting positive conversations and keeping your child safe online.
Starting a conversation about online safety
It can be hard to know the best way to start a conversation with your child about what they’re doing online. The best advice is to try to start talking about it regularly, making it a normal everyday topic of conversation. This will also mean they are more likely to come and talk to you if they need help or guidance.
Some ideas about how to start conversations:
- Ask your child to show you what they enjoy doing online, or games/apps they’re currently playing.
- Talk about sites or games you enjoy, or ones you don’t enjoy and why
- Discuss things that may make them worried, and let them know they can come to you to talk
- Ask them about their friends online and how they know they are who they say they are
- Discuss with your child what they think is okay for young people of different ages to do, so they feel involved in the decision-making.
- Discuss digital footprints, and what they say about people
- Ask them what they trust online
- Ask them if they know how to report bad things, or how to block people.
Please remember if you have any online safety concerns, you can discuss these with your tutor team, or any of the designated Safeguarding leads in school.
Further support and E-safety Guides