Key Safeguarding Links

Please find some useful links for a range of safeguarding issues:

• Think U Know – Information from CEOP about online abuse and exploitation

• Internet Matters– Information from BT, Sky, Talk Talk and Virgin
  • Parents pack
  • Digital resilience toolkits
  • Leaflets 
  • What the experts say
• Childnet– Information for parents and carers
  • Family agreements and conversation starters
  • Supporting Young People Online Leaflets
  • Music, TV, Film and the Internet Leaflets
  • Parents resource sheet
  • Screen time boundaries
  • Digital Wellbeing guidance
  • Critical thinking
  • Live Streaming

• UK Safer Internet Centre parents advice
• The Parent Zone– guidance for parents and professionals working with families
  • NSPCC Online Safety– NSPCC Online Safety advice
  • O2 and NSPCC
• Talking to your child
• Barnardo’s Follow me
• Barnardo’s Be Safe guidefor parents and children about sexual exploitation
• Parents Protect– Lucy Faithfull Foundation
• Get Safe Online
• Family Online Safety Institute(FOSI)
• Vodafone Digital Parenting
• EE Digital Living resources– for schools and parents and carers
• NWG and UK Safer Internet Centre leaflet: Online: Onguard – A Guide to Becoming a Safer Parent Online 
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – Screen Time guidance

Review Sites and Social Media Guides

• Net Aware– NSPCC reviews of 50+ popular apps and games
• Internet Matters – Safe set up guides (includes popular social media sites)
• Common Sense Media – American site which reviews websites, games etc with age suitability
• UK Safer Internet Centre
• Think U Know

Parental Controls

• UK Safer Internet Centre: Parents guide to new technology
• UK Safer Internet Centre: Parents guide to parental controls
• Internet Matters– Safe set up guides for devices and social media apps
• NSPCC Parental Controls
• Yahoo Safety Tips
• Google Safety Center– includes family safety
• How Computers Work
• NetLingo– common online acronyms and text speak e.g. LOL, POS
• Staying safe online: parental controls on broadband

Vodafone Digital Parenting Magazines

• Vodafone Digital: Parenting Resources Zone
• Digital Parenting Magazine (issue 9)
• Digital Parenting Magazine (Archives)

Gaming and online video content

• Ask About Games– advice on computer gaming and parental controls
• Pegi – information about games rating
• Safer Internet Centre Gaming Resources
• NSPCC Online Games
• Parents Guide to Games
• Internet Matters – safe set up guides for gaming devices
• BBFC

Links for Foster Carers and Adoptive parents

• Think U Know: Specific Risks 
• Think U Know: Placement Plans
• Safer Internet Centre: Advice for foster carers and adoptive parents

Resources to support parents and carers  

• Parent’s Protect and Lucy Faithfull: What’s the problem?– Family action planning tool – covers children accessing adult content, ‘sexting’ and downloading indecent images.
• Think U Know:
  • Worried your child is being sexually abused?
  • Worried about your child, sex and relationships?
  • Finding out your child has been sexually abused
  • Supporting a child who has been sexually abused
  • Finding out your child has done something sexually harmful
  • How to report to CEOP
  • Reporting to social media sites
• The Marie Collins Foundation– support for children and families who have experienced online abuse

Childnet

• What to do if your child sees something upsetting online
• Need help?
• How to make a report

NSPCC

• Sexting
• Online Porn
• Video Chat and Live Streaming
• Safer Internet Centre: Need help?