Keeping Safe OnlineA guide for parents and families

Clare Barrowman

Health and Wellbeing Adviser

Education and Skills

North Yorkshire County Council

Questions

• Would you talk to someone you didn’t know?

• Would you speak to someone you have never met like they were your best friend?

• Would you speak to someone you have never met and be really horrible to them?

• Would you hang up your personal pictures of yourself in a public place for everyone to see?

• Would you walk around naked/ topless?

• Would you tell any one where you lived /Which school you went to?

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Service

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Safer Internet.org.uk – parent controls

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

Controls are not a single solution to staying safe online; talking to

your children and encouraging responsible behaviour is critical.

However, controls are a vital first step to helping to protect your child

online, and here seven simple things you can do to use them

effectively:

1. Set up home broadband parental controls and make use of

controls on your home broadband.

2. Set controls on your search engine; encourage your child to

always use child-friendly search engines, and activate and lock

the safe search settings on the browsers and platforms they use.

3. Make sure every device is protected. Controls should be

installed on every device your child uses, such as their mobile

phone, tablet and games consoles (both home and handheld).

4. Use privacy settings. Activate the safety measures offered by

different sites; social networking sites like Facebook have privacy

settings that will help prevent your child seeing unsuitable

advertising or sharing too much with other people.

5. Block pop-ups. If you’re worried about your children accessing inappropriate content though accidentally clicking on adverts in pop-ups, follow the advice from BBC Webwise on how to stop these.

6. Find good sites and agree on them as a family. By talking to your child about their interests you can help them find suitable sites to visit and apps to use. Review these sites as they get older.

7. Manage their use and access. Children may be very worried that your response to a problem will be to take away their internet access. Whilst this may be an appropriate response in some cases, the threat may be a barrier for a child who needs help. Be aware of this when talking to them about their internet use, and reassure them that they can talk to you or a trusted adult whenever they need to.

A Safer Set Up

Safe Search modes for search engines

Family Safety Centre

Internet Filtering

Parental Controls

Safety Mode

Preferences

CyberMentors

Share Aware

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/shareaware

Sharing Inappropriate Images / Keeping Safe • http://www.nspcc.org.uk/shareaware

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

Sharing Inappropriate Images

Nude Selfies:

• Understanding Why

• Talking to your child

• When should I be worried?

• Where to get help

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

Know IT All

Top Tips 1. Talk to your child about what they’re up to online.

2. Watch Thinkuknow/ shareaware films and cartoons with

your child on the topic.

3. Keep up-to-date with your child’s development online.

4. Set boundaries in the online world just as you would in

the real world.

5. Ensure they have non-screen time – children should

have 60 mins of physical activity a day and a minimum

of 10 hours sleep

6. Consider when, where and how your children can

connect – are they safe? It is 24 hours/ 7days a week –

primary aged children need about 10 hours of sleep a

night

7. Use parental controls on devices that link to the

internet, such as the TV, laptops, computers, games

consoles and mobile phones.

Remember this about people

not just technology