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• For parents
• For children and young people

Here is a selection of the most useful and authoritative web sites offering guidance for parents about safe Internet usage by their children.

SWGfL

SWGfL is a charity dedicated to online safety. It has a wide range of information and resources for parents, students and teachers.

https://swgfl.org.uk/

Hwb Online Safety

hwb.gov.wales/zones/online-safety/

Wales’ online portal supporting learners, parents/carers and School with online safety, providing a range of resources and links to access support and guidance to help keep safe online. Hwb is a website and collection of online tools provided to all schools in Wales by the Welsh Government.

‘In The Know’ Guides

Report Harmful Content

So you got naked online

CEOP – Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

ceop.police.uk/

CEOP works with child protection partners across the UK and overseas to identify the main on-line threats to children and coordinates activity against these threats to bring offenders to account. They seek to protect children from harm online and offline, working with the National Crime Agency and in partnership with local and international agencies. You can use the website to make a report to one of CEOP’s Child Protection Advisors

CEOP have an education programme for parents/carers helping keep children and young people safe by providing education about sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

Get Safe Online

getsafeonline.org/safeguarding-children/

Get Safe Online is a public / private sector partnership supported by HM Government with information on online safety, providing practical advice on how to protect yourself, your computers and mobiles device a against fraud, identity theft, viruses and other problems encountered online

Childnet

childnet.com/parents-and-carers

Childnet offers practical internet safety information and resources for schools, young people and parents/carers.  This site offers information, advice and resources in an informal and accessible style, especially aimed at young people and parents/carers.

NSPCC Online Safety

www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

On-line advice including how to set up parental controls. Talking to your child about staying safe online, safety of apps and games, video chat sharing and streaming apps

InternetMatters

www.internetmatters.org/

Launched in 2014, and supported by NSPCC, FOSI, Childnet, ThinkUKnow, PitDA, CEOP, Family Lives, Ofcom, BT, Sky, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Virgin, and offering useful resources to help parents and carers make informed choices about their children’s online safety.  Issues covered include inappropriate content, cyberbullying, online grooming, sexting and online reputation.

Google Family Safety Centre

www.google.co.uk/safetycenter/families/start/

Provides parents and teachers with practical tools to help them choose what content their children see online. Look out for the video tips on how to set up safe searching on Google and YouTube. Note that each of the search engines e.g. Yahoo, Virgin, Bing! etc, have their own internet safety pages. You can search for these from the home page.

Our general Information Technology Advice for Parents

 Download our Advice for Parents including:

• the benefits we recognise in Information Technology
• the dangers and drawbacks of these technologies
• advice for parents on how to manage children’s use of Information Technology