Online Safety Support
Guidance from the Department for Education
The DFE have recently published a range of resources to support Online Safety.Support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online includes:
- Thinkuknow provides advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA) on staying safe online
- Parent info is a collaboration between Parentzone and the NCA providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
- Childnet offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support
- Internet Matters provides age-specific online safety checklists, guides on how to set parental controls on a range of devices, and a host of practical tips to help children get the most out of their digital world
- London Grid for Learning has support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online, including tips to keep primary aged children safe online
- Net-aware has support for parents and carers from the NSPCC and O2, including a guide to social networks, apps and games
- Let’s Talk About It has advice for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation
- UK Safer Internet Centre has tips, advice, guides and other resources to help keep children safe online, including parental controls offered by home internet providers and safety tools on social networks and other online services
Government has also provided:
- support for parents and carers to keep children safe from online harms, includes advice about specific harms such as online child sexual abuse, sexting, and cyberbullying
- support to stay safe online includes security and privacy settings, blocking unsuitable content, and parental controls
New technologies have become integral to the lives of children and young people in today’s society, both within school and in their lives outside school.
Technology is developing at an increasingly rapid rate and at St Aidan’s Catholic Academy we are committed to nurturing active, lifelong learners preparing them to be responsible, contributing members of society and global citizens who can use technology as a tool to help shape their lives and their community.
St Aidan’s Online Safety Policy
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Reporting an incident as a member of staff or student.
Esafety Essential Information for Parents
Talking to Children about what they share online
Staying Safe Online
Click on the links below:
ThinkUKnow |
Bullying.co.uk |
ThinkUKnow – CEOP |
ChildLine |
ThinkUKNow – Exposed |
NSPCC |
ThinkUKnow – Beat Bullying |
Anti Bulling |
Safekids |
Stop Cyber Bullying |
Cyberstreet |
