E-Safety Advice for Parents

Whether on a computer at school, a laptop at home, a games console or mobile phone,
children and young people are increasingly accessing the internet whenever they can and
wherever they are.

As you would protect your child in the real world, you will want to make sure that they are safe whatever they are doing. Like learning to cross the road, online safety skills are skills for life.
If your child understands the risks and can make sensible and informed choices online, they
can get the most from the internet and stay safe whilst doing so – particularly from those
people who might seek them out to harm them.

 

So, how can you protect your child online?
 

The answer is simple. If you understand the internet and understand what the risks are, there
are a number of things you can do that will make your child safer online...

 

Here are some very useful links  

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

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

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_16/

http://www.ceop.police.uk/reportabuse/index.asp

http://www.naace.org

http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/

http://schools.becta.org.uk/

http://cms.lgfl.net/lgfl/web/safety;

http://www.nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/173927

http://www.childnet-int.org/safety/parents.aspx