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Government announces £500k funding for the UK Safer Internet Centre

Fri 26 December 2014

On Boxing Day, Nicky Morgan MP announced that the government is committing £500,000 to the UK Safer Internet Centre to help it to continue its important work supporting children, families and schools. In the Government's press release , Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities Nicky Morgan, said: "From my conversations with parents I know how worried parents are...

All I want for Christmas... is a Wii U?!

Wed 17 December 2014

If this sounds like Christmas in your household, you’ve come to the right place! With technology at the top of many young people’s Christmas wishlists this year, we’ve launched new guides covering the latest devices to help parents stay up to date with the latest tech. Our new and updated guides cover popular devices such as the iPad , iPod Touch , Kindle Fire , iPhone , WiiU , PS4 and Xbox One...
devices, parental controls

#WeProtect Children Online

Thu 11 December 2014

On 10-11 December 2014, representatives from over 50 countries meet in London for the #WeProtect global summit to discuss how to end online child sexual exploitation and agree a coordinated global response. UK Safer Internet Centre partners, the Internet Watch Foundation have played a key role in the summit. In April the IWF was given a new remit to search proactively for criminal content, and...
policy, law, grooming, sexual abuse

Online Safety - Radicalisation

Tue 02 December 2014

The UK Safer Internet Centre has taken the unusual step of publishing this special bulletin to all Local Safeguarding Children Boards due to the unprecedented online threats posed to children across the UK from radicalisation and extremism. Whilst many LSCBs have well established PREVENT programmes, some do not and the special bulletin below encourages all LSCBs to consider these recent and...
online safety, radicalisation, LSCB, extremism, PREVENT, Safeguarding

Beth Tweddle tells us why she's supporting Anti-Bullying Week 2014

Mon 17 November 2014

This week (17th - 21st November) is Anti-Bullying Week and all across the country children, young people, schools, parents and carers are coming together with one aim: to stop bullying for all. As a study revealed earlier this year that online bullying has now overtaken traditional forms of bullying, with 12% of children now experiencing cyberbulling compared to 9% face-to-face, it is important...

Empowering all parents and carers to support young people on the internet: launch event at Islington Town Hall

Fri 14 November 2014

Event hosted by Childnet, Islington Council and London Grid for Learning celebrates the launch of new e-safety resources for parents and carers Expert panel includes Facebook, Virgin Media and the British Association of Adoption and Fostering On Monday 10th November, Childnet, Islington Council and London Grid for Learning hosted an event to celebrate the launch of two new resources that will...
fostering, adoption, translations, event

World Kindness Day

Thu 13 November 2014

It’s great to see so many people carrying out little acts of kindness this World Kindness Day. Being kind online is essential in creating a better and safer online community. That’s why for Safer Internet Day 2015 we will be encouraging everyone to be a good friend online. Run a Safer Internet Day education session Our education packs for schools and parents are designed to help schools, youth...
Safer Internet Day

Education Packs for Safer Internet Day launched!

Fri 07 November 2014

The UK Safer Internet Centre is delighted to announce the launch of Safer Internet Day education packs for primary age children (3-11 years), secondary age children (11-19 years) and parents and carers. The resources are designed to help schools, youth groups and other organisations to deliver activities for children, young people, parents and carers on Safer Internet Day 2015 on the 10th...
resources

New resource to help parents and carers talk to their children about pornography on the internet

Tue 28 October 2014

Survey reveals a quarter of parents say they have spoken to their child about pornography. Today Childnet launched a resource to help parents talk to their children about online pornography, as a survey finds that just a quarter of parents say they have spoken to their child about this important issue despite a recent report from the Children’s Commissioner for England concluding that “basically...
pornography

Tablet use on the rise

Mon 20 October 2014

Ofcom’s latest report, Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report, has revealed that almost half of children aged 5-15 go online using a tablet computer, twice as many as in 2013. Interestingly, tablets are close to taking over as the main device that children use to access the internet at home, coming in second place after laptops/netbooks as the device 5-15s ‘mostly’ use to go online...
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