There is support available to keep your child safe online. You can access further information on keeping children safe online.
Here are some useful links to help parents and carers.
Thinkuknow provides advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA) to stay safe online
to help families manage during this time, the NCAhas launched Thinkuknow: home activity packs, a set of fun, engaging activities based on Thinkuknow cartoons, films, games, and advice articles
a new activity sheet for each age group will be published on the Thinkuknow website every 2 weeks while schools are closed - these activities offer a great opportunity to help you keep up positive, supportive conversations about online safety in your home
Parent Info is a collaboration between Parentzone and the NCA providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
Childnet provides a tool kit 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
Internet Matters provides age-specific online safety checklists, guides on how to set parental controls on a range of devices and a host of practical tips to help children get the most out of their digital world
LGfL provides support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online, including 6 top tips to keep primary aged children safe online
Net Aware provides support for parents and carers from the NSPCC, providing a guide to social networks, apps and games
Let’s Talk About It provides support for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation
UK Safer Internet Centre provides tips, advice, guides and 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
staying safe online provides government guidance offering advice on parental controls, fact-checking information, communicating with family and friends while social distancing is in place and taking regular breaks
FREE online e-learning Courses:
https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses
At Newfield School, we take online safety very seriously.
The Internet opens up so many educational and social opportunities for our children, whether on a computer at school, a laptop at home, a games console or mobile phone. All of these devices allow us to communicate with the wider world. As you would protect your child in the real world, you will want to make sure that they are safe whatever they are doing. This page is designed to give you more information and tools to help make you and your child safer online. The articles below provide support on Internet safety at home using a range of devices that have Internet access. These links are all external site. We hope that they are useful.
If you would like some support on how to keep your child safe online, or wish to report an e-safety concern, please either ring and ask to speak to Mr Newall, who is our online child protection officer, or email him on: admin.newfield@schools.sefton.gov.uk (FAO: For attention of Mr Newall)
Top tips to keeping safe online
What is Safer Internet Day?
Safer Internet Day 2019 was Tuesday 5th February
Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people and inspire a national conversation.
Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved to help promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.
Globally, Safer Internet Day is celebrated in over a hundred countries, coordinated by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission, and national Safer Internet Centres across Europe.
The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and wider, to join together in helping to create a better internet. Get involved to play your part!
http://www.inhope.org/gns/home.aspx
Advice on Games Consoles and Other Internet Sites
Facebook Parents, please be aware of the need to set Privacy on to your Facebook account. By using the custom settings in the privacy section, you can control what information is available about you and your child online. The custom option also enables you to preview your profile so that you can see what information people can access when looking at your profile. Remember that this needs to be done every time you upload new pictures. If you don’t do this, your new pictures can be seen by all!
Games Consoles Parental controls are available on most games consoles. Many games consoles now have internet access and enable your child to communicate with others on the web. The links below will show you how to control your child’s use of the most popular games consoles.
Playstation- http://www.psplaysafeonline.com/uk/home/ Xbox- http://support.xbox.com/en-gb/pages/xbox-live/how-to/parental-control.aspx DSI-http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/dsi/en_na/settingsParentalControls.jsp Club Penguin http://www.clubpenguin.com/parents/player_safety.htm
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