Supporting your child at home:
- Childnet is also a really good resource for parents and carers. You can find their parents and carers homepage here: Childnet. They have a great information sheet called ‘supporting young people online’, which is available in many different languages here: Childnet supporting young people online
- National Online Safety offers lots of up-to-the-minute information regarding current popular games and media. All you have to do to access them is be sure to follow their hashtag #wakeupwednesday on social media for weekly tips regarding current popular games and media – please scroll down for some examples - Tik Tok, Youtube, Roblox and Snapchat - but there are countless more online.
This site advises you to take four steps:
1. Have ongoing conversations with your children about staying safe online
2. Use safety tools on social networks and other online services, eg Facebook privacy settings
3. Decide if you want to use parental controls on your home internet
4. Understand devices and the parental control tools they offer in their Parents' Guide to Technology
- NSPCC also has some excellent resources to help keep your child safe online.
- In case you missed it, here are this year’s Safer Internet Day resources from earlier in the year (the focus was respectful relationships online):