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GVSF’s Online Safety Newsletter May 2021
This guide will help you set up parental controls to provide your child with a safer online environment.
Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) - Online Safety for Parents
Online Safety Information for Parents/Carers:
- What Parents and Carers Need to Know About WhatsApp
- DfE’s Advice for Parents on Cyberbulling
- National Online Safety - Online Safety Storybook
- Internet Matters Booklet - Discovery Digital at Primary School
- Parent Top Tips To Keep Children Safe Online During School Closure
- Thinkuknow Parents Help Sheet: Keeping your Child Safe Online While They Are Off School
- Instagram - What Parents Need to Know Leaflet
- Factsheet on Snapchat Privacy and Blocking. How to make your Snapchat Private.
- Momo - What Parents Need to Know Leaflet
- WhatsApp - What Parents Need to Know Leaflet
- Age Rating - What Parents Need to Know Leaflet
- Thinkuknow Parent's Guide to YouTube
Tik Tok - Information for Parents/Carers
#DITTO is a free online safety (e-safety) magazine to keep schools and parents up to date with risks, issues, advice and guidance related to keeping children safe online, with a view to enjoying and learning about technology.
Useful Web Links for Parents:
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for parents and carers to keep children safe online More support on specific harms children may experience online during COVID-19
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Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) Our vision is that children and young people are safeguarded, supported and their lives are improved. We can achieve this by all agencies working together.
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Be Internet Legends - Online Safety Join the Legends Family in this short, animated series as they go on a journey to Interland and learn some very important lessons about internet safety along the way.
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Childnet's Advice for Parents and Carers How to begin a conversation about online safety.
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Childnet - Keeping Young Children Safe Online Guidance on keeping under-fives safe online.
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Childnet - Parent and Carers Toolkit Offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support
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Internet Matters Expert age-specific advice to prepare and protect your child from a range of online issues, including: sexting, self harm, screen time, radicalisation, pornography, online reputation, online grooming, inappropriate content, identity theft, and cyberbullying
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Internet Matters - Broadband and Mobile Networks Broadband, mobile and WiFi providers offer filters to limit the inappropriate content a child might see. As these typically have to be set manually, you’ll find a comprehensive list of parental control guides that we’ve created to make this process easier to follow with our step by step videos and visual instructions.
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Internet Matter - Gaming Consoles and Platforms Games consoles have features that can limit what games they can play based on the age ratings and can even turn off certain features to allow gaming to be a little safer. To learn more about these features visit this webpage.
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Internet Matters - Parental Controls Give your child a safe space to explore their curiosity online. Internet Matter's step by step guides will help parents/carers to set up the right controls and privacy settings on the networks, gadgets, apps, and sites they use to give them a safer online experience.
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Internet Matters - YouTube Parental Controls YouTube is a fantastic resource, especially when homeschooling, but not all the content is appropriate for children and not all YouTube channels are made for young audiences. YouTube has an app just for children – YouTube Kids – but many people don't realise that the main YouTube app has a restricted mode. Check out more about how it works here
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Let's Talk About It (LTAI) Advice for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation
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London Grid for Learning Support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online, including tips to keep primary aged children safe online
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NSPCC Support for parents and carers from the NSPCC, including a guide to social networks, apps and games
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Parent Info A collaboration between Parentzone and the NCA providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
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Parent Zone - Pan European Game Information (PEGI) Games Ratings Explained Visit this site for more about game ratings
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TikTok - Safety Center On this page parent/carers will find information and resources to help them understand TikTok, the tools and controls parent/carers and child can enable together, and how to help children have their best experience with the app and community.
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ThinkUKnow Advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA) on staying safe online
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ThinkUKnow - Gaming. What's Appropriate for Your Child Games are also rated based on the content, not how difficult they are. 18 rated games can have very graphic violence, adult language, themes and horror elements. Learn a bit more about appropriate games by visiting this site.
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ThinkUKnow - I’m worried my child might see something inappropriate online It's important to remember that no filters or controls are 100% effective so make sure your child knows that they can, and should, talk to someone if they see or hear anything upsetting online so we can offer them some reassurance.
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ThinkUKnow Online Safety at Home Activity Packs CEOP’s simple 15 minute activities suitable for children aged 4-14+ can be done at home and focus on topics including image sharing, live streaming and watching videos on the web.
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UK Safer Internet Centre Tips, advice, guides and other resources to help keep children safe online, including parental controls offered by home internet providers and safety tools on social networks and other online services
Five articles to help keep parents engaged with their child's online activities:
