Online Safety

An online safety zoom for BGL parents took place in October 2022, the documents discussed are available to download at the bottom of this page.

For the most up-to-date information please follow Online Safeguarding - Parents & Carers - Lancashire Safeguarding Children Board

Some really useful links are listed below from the online safety zoom:

Parents and carers | CEOP Education (thinkuknow.co.uk)

CEOP Safety Centre

Keeping children safe | NSPCC

Childnet — Online safety for young people

Information, Advice and Support to Keep Children Safe Online (internetmatters.org)

The Best Parental Control App Services of 2022 (top10cybersecurity.com)

Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families | Common Sense Media

Homepage - UK Safer Internet Centre

Let's stop abuse together - Stop Abuse Together

Three-fold increase of abuse imagery of 7-10-year-olds as IWF detects more child sexual abuse material online than ever before | IWF

Advice for parents and carers (anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk)

Online Safety Tips for Parents - Be Internet Legends

Digital Parenting | Vodafone

You may find the following information useful by the NSPCC/O2:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nspcc+O2

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/share-aware - Useful videos and tools for parents to use to engage their children in discussions about online safety.

https://www.net-aware.org.uk – tool for parents to find out about latest app and social media sites.

Additional useful sites:

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

http://parentinfo.org 

http://parentzone.org.uk 

http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-carers 

http://vodafonedigitalparenting.co.uk 

Please see the images below offering important information about online apps. You are able to download these as a PDF.

Files to Download