Online Safety
If you have any concerns or would like some support or advice regarding online safety, please speak to:
- Miss Buckle – Pastoral Lead and Designated Safeguarding Lead, Online Safety Lead
- Mr Murray – Computing Lead
The government has a page dedicated to supporting parents and carers to keep children safe online. There are links to other websites that can help parents to make informed decisions. It can be found here.
The NSPCC has information to support parents about children accessing online games. It can be found here.
Should you become worried that your child may be being exploited while they are online at home, you can report it to Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP). You can find out more about CEOP by clicking here to visit this section of our website.
Classification of Online Risk – The 4 Cs
Protecting Children from Harmful Content Online
The classification recognises that there are four areas of online risks arise when a child:
- Engages with and/or is exposed to potentially harmful CONTENT;
- Experiences and/or is targeted by potentially harmful CONTACT;
- Witnesses, participates in and/or is a victim of potentially harmful CONDUCT;
- Has access and is exposed to potentially harmful COMMERCE.
Useful links for parents and children
- The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) is often referred to as an online 999 where young people and parents can get advice on a range of issues such as viruses, hacking and dealing with bullying online.
- Swiggle child-friendly search engine – Swiggle.org.uk.
- BBC own it (site suited to Key Stage 2 children) – https://www.bbc.com/ownit
- CEOP – https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/4_7/child/
- Key Stage 1 Think You Know – https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/jessie-and-friends/
- KidSMART (now called Childnet) – https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers
- Digiduck’s Big Decision (Ebook for Key Stage 1) – https://www.childnet.com/resources/digiduck-stories
- Key Stage 2 Think You Know – https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk