National Online Safety App
The new National Online Safety mobile app is now available! It’s a simple, flexible way for parents and carers to get expert guidance on online safety issues, whenever and wherever suits them. We think it’s a very comprehensive online safety app and provided you with a wealth of useful information. Download it now from your App store
Remote Learning Access on Games Console
Please find below the instructions on how to use your games consoles to access your remote learning:
What Parents Need To Know About ‘CyberPunk 2077’
It’s been beset by early technical issues, but glitches aren’t the only reason that Cyberpunk 2077 has hit the headlines. The extreme violence and explicit sexual content of this Blade Runner-esque sci-fi noir have also put it firmly on our radar. Now we’re putting it on yours. This week’s #WakeUpWednesday guide is our analysis of this long-awaited futuristic thriller that’s proving popular with children… despite its 18+ age rating.
What you Need to Know About ‘TELLONYM’ messaging network
What yoou Need to KNow About ‘League of Legends’ (LOL) Game
What You Need to Know About ‘AMONG US’ Game
Panorama – Is TikTok Safe?
TikTok was the social media sensation of lockdown. An app that provided a bit of fun for people stuck indoors, it now has hundreds of millions of users. Teens across the world spend hours on the app every day. On the face of it, Tik Tok doesn’t take itself too seriously, with users singing, dancing and chatting about everything from food to fashion, pranks to pets. But is TikTok safe for the millions of young people who have signed up? Reporter Tina Daheley investigates. Watch the episode on the link below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000p3p9/panorama-is-tiktok-safe
Top tips for Remote Education Guide for Parents/ Carers and Children
Family activities – Home activity packs
Parents and Carers Resources
If you haven’t already, read our Parents and Carers Help Sheets – there is one for primary and one for secondary. These contain key online safety advice and links to our resources, as well as support services. We have also created short videos to help you with online safety at home on the following topics:
- Watching videos
- Online gaming
- Social media
- Sharing images
- Livestreaming
- Cyber security
Home activity packs
These home activity packs a have been created to cover different areas of online safety for each age range, using our Thinkuknow resources. To access the videos and home activity packs use the link below:
Online Bullying and Trolling Guides/Support
https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/online-gaming-advice/
Support for parents and carers to keep children safe online
Options for reporting or talking through online problems:
CEOP
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children. It is part of UK policing and very much about tracking and bringing offenders to account either directly or in partnership with local and international forces. Anybody with concerns that a pupil is being groomed or sexually exploited, including involvement in Sexting, should contact them directly using the link below. I would strongly recommend that if possible, you also contact Mr Lindsay or any member of the Safeguarding team here at Hurworth as we may need to make additional referrals to Children’s Services.
www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre
Childline Instant Help
The link provided below will take you to the Childline website where you can click the explore button to find out more about topics such as Cyber Bullying and Online and Mobile Safety. More importantly if you click on the 1 to 1 Chat Online link you can contact a Childline counsellor in a 1 to 1 online chat (like instant messenger) about any online problems. Childline state that no problem is too big or too small.
ThinkUKnow
Here you can find the latest information on websites, mobiles and new technology. Find out what’s good, what’s not and what you can do about it. If you look after young people, there’s an area for you too with resources you can use at home or just to get yourself up to speed with the latest developments. Most importantly, there’s also a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online.
Here you can find a parents/carers guide to safely stream online and share images.
Delivering Online Safety at Home
Internet Watch Foundation
If you have inadvertently stumbled across potentially illegal online content, specifically images of child sexual abuse, criminally obscene material or anything that incites racial hatred then please submit a report to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The IWF works in partnership with the police, government, the online industry and the public to combat this type of material and you are helping to make the internet safer for all by taking this action.
Options for finding information about online safety guidance:
All the websites listed above have both reporting tools and sections of information and advice relating to e-safety. In addition to these you may find the following useful:
The Twitter feed from the CEOP website has many tweets with up to date information about online safety. It covers the type of current activity taking place not only across the UK but also specifically what is happening regionally.
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online is the UK’s leading source of unbiased, factual and easy-to-understand information on online safety.