Safety Online
Children and young people love using the internet and are afforded a range of opportunities. For Safer Internet Day (5th February 2013), the UK Safer Internet Centre spoke to over 24,000 children and young people across the UK about what they do online and what they believe that their top online rights and responsibilities are.
Overwhelmingly children and young people respond- ed that they want to feel safe and they want to enjoy being on the internet. Young people believe it is important that they can turn to someone if they are worried or upset about anything they have seen online. There are a range of
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Ask children to tell you about what sites they visit and what they enjoy doing online.
Ask them about how they stay safe online. What tips do they have for you, and where did they learn them? What is OK and not OK to share online?
Ask them if they know where to go for help, where to find the safety advice, privacy settings and how to block or report on the services they use.
Ask them for help, whether they can show you how to do something better online or they have a friend who they think might benefit from some help?
Think about how you as a family connect with respect! What could you do to get more out of the internet?
people that they turn to, but both primary and second- ary age children are most likely to turn to their parents if something upsets or worries them online. Young people take part in a
wide range of activities online, enabling them to discover and access a wide range of content, to connect with their friends and family as well as offering them the potential to create and distribute their own content. While many young people are having fun online, there are things that stop them enjoying their time online, and adverts and people being unkind are the two highest rank- ing things.
It can be hard for parents to think about how to
support them online, but they do have a key role to play, particularly in helping children and young people to understand and make the best use of tools that are available to them. The UK Safer Internet provide a range of free advice and resources for parents and carers, and encourages parents to talk with their children to find out what it is that they are doing online, what they enjoy and where they need more support.
www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/ parents-and-carers
HELPING TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY SAFER ONLINE
have developed HomeSafeTM
The internet can be a wonderful place for your child to discover the world. However, there are times when you can’t always watch over their shoulder. That’s why TalkTalk , online
security with parental controls. It gives you control over the type of websites your household can access. HomeSafeTM
has been developed in
partnership with online safety experts and has the stamp of approval from Mumsnet.
Safety Outdoors
The Child Accident Prevention Trust aims to encourage parents to take simple steps to keep children safe so everyone can enjoy summer to the fullest, whether on a beach holiday or having fun in the garden.
Here are some important key messages for parents to help them stay one step ahead of potentially serious accidents this summer.
Water safety Keeping cool in the water is usually one of the highlights of the summer for children. Children should be able to enjoy the water without being in danger. Yet in the past six years, 30 children from the UK under the age of ten have drowned whilst on holiday abroad[1]
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There may not be a struggle to alert you that your child is in difficulty in the water – children
can slip silently under the water and drown quickly. That’s why it is so important to be vigilant and always supervise younger children closely around water. This is especially important when away on holiday, where the environment, regulations and routines are different, and parents will be relaxed and may be off their guard.
Water safety away from home ● In most cases, children who drown are unsu- pervised – some incidents have resulted from younger children wandering off and falling into a hotel or villa pool.
● Not all hotel pools have lifeguards – where they
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