Safer Internet Centre

The UK Safer Internet Centre, in collaboration with the UKCCIS secretariat, has just completed a national survey regarding e safety within Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCB) across England. The survey questions aimed at ascertaining the nature, priority and history of each LSCBs e safety work. Overall the responses reveal that across England due to government changes and budget cuts, e-...

Over the last three years The i in online has delivered training on privacy issues to over 10,000 school children and their teachers across the UK and Ireland. The training aims to raise awareness about privacy rights and to provide a better understanding of data protection and how to protect personal information online. Data Protection Day - 27 January 2012 Visit the minisite to register to take...

A Parents’ Guide to Technology is an online resource from the UK Safer Internet Centre providing advice for parents about the benefits, capabilities and potential risks of smartphones, gaming devices, tablets and internet-enabled media players. It introduces some of the most popular devices, such as the BlackBerry, iPhone, iPod Touch and 3DS, highlighting safety tools that are available, as well...

A group of 28 industry partners, have signed a statement of purpose, agreeing to take action in five areas in helping to make the internet safer for children, including making it easier to report harmful content, ensuring privacy settings are age-appropriate, and offering wider options for parental control, reflecting the needs of a generation that is going online at an increasingly young age...

As February 7th 2012 is rapidly approaching, with it comes Safer Internet Day . We are happy to be able to share with you the launch of the UK Safer Internet Centre resource packs for both Primary and Secondary schools. This year’s theme aims to encourage pupils to think about their internet use, and the way that other age groups use the internet, and internet-enabled devices. Pupils will need to...

The Professionals Online Safety Helpline, (operated by the UK Safer Internet Centre) is very proud to announce that they have been shortlisted as Finalists in the 2011 UK Public Sector Digital Awards (formerly the e-Government National Awards). We are nominated in the “Best use of ICT to build a fairer society” category, and the winners will be announced at an awards dinner to be held at the...

The ACMA in Australia have released 2 new educational resources which are available online. Firstly, a film called Tagged, which looks at cyberbullying, sexting, digital reputations and personal responsibility. It is a powerful film, and has interviews with the characters in the film afterwards. You can see the film here http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/tagged/ and a press release for the launch http...

The IWF is marking its 2011 Awareness Day on Wednesday 26 October and would like your help. The aim of Awareness Day is to reach out online and through the media to raise awareness of it's internet Hotline and it's work minimising the availability of criminal online content, primarily child sexual abuse content, in partnership with the internet industry and the police. Due to the support of so...

UK media regulators joined forces today to launch ParentPort, a new website aimed at helping parents make their views heard on issues relating to programmes, adverts, products and services. ParentPort has been set up to make it easier for parents to complain about material they have seen or heard across the media, communications and retail industries. To find out more information please go to:...

This research from 25000 9-16 year olds spanning every EU country provides an unrivalled insight with information on children's access and usage of the internet, as well as their exposure to risk, and also harm. Findings are available in a cross EU comparison, but also country by country, and a range of reports have been written from the data, see http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/...