Keeping Your Child Safe Online
Supporting Your Child Online
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How To Set Up Parental Controls The 4 big internet providers in the UK – BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media - provide their customers with free parental controls which can be activated at any time. They have come together to produce these helpful video guides to help you to download and set-up the controls offered by your provider.
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Online Gaming: Information for Parents Internet safety advice is directly applicable to the gaming environment. It is essential that children are aware of the potential issues and are given the skills and knowledge to help manage and reduce these risks, with the help of those around them. This leaflet explores the online gaming environment and provides a wealth of safety advice.
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A Parents' Guide To Technology This resource provides e-safety advice and information for parents and carers.
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Reporting Advice for Adults and Young People Most services have rules about what kind of content is allowed on the site. Often if something is harassing an individual, inappropriate or violent it breaks the rules. You can report this kind of content using the reporting tools on the sites.
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Smart Crew Adventure Cartoons These cartoons illustrate 5 e-safety SMART rules and include a real life SMART Crew of young people, who guide the cartoon characters in their quest, and help them make safe online decisions.
The Digiduck Stories
The Digiduck collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3 - 7 about how to be a good friend online. The collection now includes a book, PDF, poster and interactive app.
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Digiduck: Famous Friend Digiduck and his classmates are set the task of finding out who their special guest will be at school today. Through chatting online and asking questions they try to decide who the mystery guest is. Follow Digiduck and his pals in this story about critical thinking and reliability online.
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Digiduck's Big Decision Help arrives just in time for Digiduck when faced with a difficult decision! Follow Digiduck and his pals in this story of friendship and responsibility online.