Parenting in a Digital World – Keeping
Children Safe Online
• Consider how to take Good Parenting online
• Discussion on latest research and Risks
(3 C’s – Content Contact Conduct)
• Choose quality technology to support children's learning and
enjoyment, amongst a mix of other offline activities!
• Building children’s resilience online as they get older
• Practical tips and tools:
–Conversation starters
–Getting Involved with your child’s online activity
–Filtering updates, family boundaries
–General Support - Age ratings of Apps/games, when to buy
your child a mobile phone …..
• Contact [email protected]
Parent leaflets (13 different languages) http://www.childnet.com/resources/supporting-young-people-online
• Reminders from today’s
sessions
• Conversations starters
• Signpost to key
organisations
• Practical tips
“What can I do now?”
Foster Carers• Things to think about when planning a
placement
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Establishing trust and giving advice
• What to do if something goes wrong
Adoptive Parents• Managing online contact with birth
family members
• Managing your family’s online
presence
• Preparing for and responding to
unmanaged contact
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/fostering-adoption
This session can be used with Foster carers &
Adoptive Parents – 2 leaflets support discussion points below:
That was Then
This is now
Chinese city opens 'phone lane' for texting
pedestrians
15 million texts a minute
Remember Tech is positive –
Tech City/Old Street, New Computing
Curriculum, Year of Code
Ofcom – August 2013 – Changing Family Life
What tech
Is your
family
using?
Every year regulator Ofcom releases a report looking at children's use of
digital services. Its most recent, released in October, surveyed 1,600 children
aged five to 15.
• There has been a significant increase in access to, ownership of and
use of tablet computers by children of all ages. In contrast, the
incidence of TVs and games consoles in the bedroom is declining,
while smartphone ownership remains steady.
• Almost twice as many children aged 5-15 are going online via a tablet
than in 2013. (11 per cent of children aged three to four now having
their own tablet, up from 3 per cent in 2013)
• Younger children still prefer TV to any other device, and spend more
time in a typical week watching TV than doing any other media activity.
• Parents also treat boys and girls differently, monitoring some aspects of
girls’ online activity more closely than boys’.
• Gender differences are evident from an early age. Differences include a
preference for gaming among boys and for communicating online
among girls.
•
What Worries you?
Newspaper headlines are a great Conversation starter with your child
OFSTED Common risks:
Content
• exposure to inappropriate content, including online
pornography, ignoring age ratings in games (exposure to
violence associated with often racist language), substance
abuse
• lifestyle websites, for example pro-anorexia/self-harm/suicide
sites
• hate sites
• content validation: how to check authenticity and accuracy of
online content
Video sharing sites
Extreme Content Commonly Shared and Viewed by
Young People
Parents can to choose to set filtering via
home internet provider
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-
carers/parental-controls
• Grooming (including with sexual intent or with the
intent to radicalise)
• cyber-bullying in all forms (this is what worries
many children/young people the most)
• identity theft (including ‘frape’ hacking Facebook
profiles) and sharing passwords
Contact
• privacy issues, including disclosure of personal information
• digital footprint and online reputation
• health and well-being (amount of time spent online (internet or
gaming)
• sexting (sending images of child is illegal)
• copyright (little care or consideration for intellectual property and
ownership (for example music and film)
Common risks:
Conduct
“Just like in the offline world, no amount of effort
to reduce potential risks to children will
eliminate those risks completely. We cannot
make the internet completely safe. Because of
this, we must also build children’s resilience to
the material to which they may be exposed so
that they have the confidence and skills to
navigate these new media waters more safely”
Safer Children in a Digital World The Report of
the Byron Review
Tools for parents
Get involved - Choose quality and age appropriate technology together
amongst a mix of other offline activities
Conversations - Talk, support and reinforce you are there if things go wrong
Talk to your child’s school
Agree Boundaries for whole family (including parents!) tech at bedtime, weekends,
bathtime, mealtimes, screen time)
Passwords, Google SafeSearch, YouTube Safety Mode
Parental controls on your Internet service (http://www.internetmatters.org)
(e.g. BT Family Protection)
Parental controls and separate accounts on your computer
Parental controls on your mobile phone
(e.g. Vodafone Content Control)
Parental controls on your games console
(e.g. Nintendo DS and important control to turn off 3d for children under 7, Xbox
and restriction of Xbox live)
Facebook privacy controls
Embrace Technology - City Old Street –
future careers, New Computing Curriculum,
Year of Code!
Be Creators not just Consumers!
Take time together to explore and choose
quality Apps, Games and Websites
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
app-reviews