NEW: NWG Group Online Onguard Leaflet
STAY SAFE ONLINE
Online risks:
Content – harm from what they see
Conduct – harm from how they behave
Contact – harm from interactions with others
- Privacy – children are at risk when they make their profiles and personal information open to ‘friends of friends’ and ‘anyone’.
- Online Contact – many children have online contact with people not known to them either through games or social networking.
- Cyberbullying – children can be bullied through apps or online content. BeatBullying website and Cybermentors websites can help.
- Sexual Images – children sometimes stumble upon them or are sent them. Childline can help or for illegal images the Internet Watch Foundation
- Fraud – children sometimes believe everything they see online. Get Safe Online can provide advice on how to use internet safely.
GoCompare, have compiled a guide to broadband parental controls and internet safety for children
https://www.gocompare.com/broadband/parental-controls/
Image from: http://www.stmaryshysongreen.com/e-safety.html
Links to more information:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
http://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers
Information Sourced from: UKCCIS, CEOP, NWG Network, http://www.stmaryshysongreen.com/e-safety.html