Safer Internet Centre

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...