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Keeping Safe Online A 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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8auwnJt qE (jigsaw)

Quality & Improvement Service

nyASSIST

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

• nline, 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

• f 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