The Prime Minister has today hosted a summit at Downing Street where he has welcomed the progress made by Internet Service Providers and leading search to better protect children from harmful material online and block child abuse and other illegal content, but has warned that there is still more to do. Speaking ahead of the event, the Prime Minister has said the internet search engines in...

Today, Facebook announced the roll-out of Graph Search for UK English users of Facebook. Graph Search will give Facebook users greater ability to share and search so it will have an impact on your privacy - the information you and others can share and find about you. Our partners Childnet have put together a series of useful tips to help you manage your privacy. Tip 1: Check you are happy with...

Tuesday 15th October is Ada Lovelace Day. Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the achievements of Ada Lovelace – the first computer programmer – as well as the achievements of women across science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to provide inspiring role models and motivate the next generation of women to get involved in STEM subjects. Ada Lovelace is credited with creating the first...

The No Hate Speech Movement is a Council of Europe initiative to raise awareness of hate speech online, and to combat it. The campaign website has all information regarding the Movement, its aims, outcomes and news about what is happening. You can watch the campaign video too. The No Hate Speech Movement provides a space for young people to talk about and react against hate speech online. Through...

Based on data from over 3,000 schools, the report discloses the strength and weaknesses of wider e-Safety provision in schools in the UK. It concludes that the strongest aspects are still ‘policy and filtering’, whilst consistently the weakest area is still staff training. This report uses evidence from schools using the multi award winning 360 degree safe self review tool and also concludes that...

This week, leading SRE experts have been calling on the UK government to update the teaching guidance for sex and relationships education. At the UK Safer Internet Centre, we are calling on David Cameron to support and prioritise the update of the teaching guidance for SRE. It was published in 2000 but over the last decade we have seen an explosion in the use of digital technologies and social...