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E-safety – How can parents help to keep their children safe?

E-safety – How can parents help to keep their children safe?. Jane Fletcher- Senior Education Services Consultant for Drug Education PSHEE and Citizenship. Where do you fit in the picture?. What is e-safety?.

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E-safety – How can parents help to keep their children safe?

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  1. E-safety – How can parents help to keep their children safe? Jane Fletcher- Senior Education Services Consultant for Drug Education PSHEE and Citizenship

  2. Where do you fit in the picture?

  3. What is e-safety? E-Safety refers to ‘all fixed and mobile technologies that children and young people may encounter, now and in the future, which allow them access to content and communications that could raise issues or pose risks to their wellbeing and safety’. ‘Safeguarding Children On-Line’ BECTA

  4. Benefits of Technology • Educational games and programme • Research information • The opportunity to communicate with people from all around the world • The opportunity to share resources and ideas with people that have the same interests • Shopping around the world without leaving your computer

  5. Risks of using the internet • People lying to others online • Bullying using the internet (Cyberbulling) • Seeing inappropriate images and material • Viruses and pop ups • Paedophiles use the internet to meet young people

  6. Mobile phones • Internet via mobile phone technology • Chat rooms and social networking sites wherever and whenever • Bluetooth technology to share music files and photos with friends • Ringtones can be downloaded from the internet straight to phones

  7. Why is e-safety important? • 25% of children and young people surveyed said they had met up in the offline world with someone whom they had made initial contact online •  22% of 11-16 yr olds have been a victim of cyber-bullying • Nine of 10 children aged 8-16 have viewed pornography on the Internet, often in the process of doing homework. • There are over 500 million registered users of Facebook

  8. Schools have to fulfil safeguarding procedures to ensure that children are safe whilst online at school. They have excellent web filtering to block dangerous websites. They have to ensure that children are taught how to be safe..... BUT what happens at home? How can you help?

  9. Safety settings http://www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/familysafety/tools/ • Google SafeSearchscreens sites that contain sexually explicit content and remove them from your search results • SafeSearch Lock • SafeSearch on your phone Visit http://www.google.com on your phone

  10. YouTube Safety Mode • Content filtering on Android clip • Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs • Gambling themes or simulated gambling • Sexual and Suggestive Content • Violence • http://www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/familysafety/tools/

  11. Mobile Safety • Vodafone digital parenting • If you are unhappy about any images or messages you get sent on your mobile keep a record and contact your operator who may be able to help • Advice

  12. CEOPchild exploitation and online protection • CEOP work in partnership to protect children and young people from sexual exploitation – from the e-world to the real world. They are a branch of the police…….

  13. ‘Report Abuse’ in action • Microsoft have made a real commitment Some schools and other organisations use this as a link from their websites Approx £30,000 per month revenue lost from advertising in this space

  14. Down load the Hector’s World safety button for FREE

  15. Teaching Resources for Reception and KS1 The Adventures of Kim and Lee – Animal MagicFrom the CEOP – Thinkuknow website

  16. Getting the message across • ‘Jigsaw’ is a great film to use with upper key stage 2 children. It highlights the importance of not giving out personal information whilst online….. • The film is available from the Thinkuknow website

  17. Safer Internet Day 2013February 5th Online rights and responsibilities

  18. Children under 13 years of age are not permitted access to Facebook. Encourage children not to contact teachers….. Monitor their friends list and which groups they join….

  19. What’s available for your children to look at: Far right Fascists groups Extreme left wing groups Anti-Semitic groups Anti-Muslim groups Homophobic groups Hate site links Adult offering sex Gambling Porn links One night stand groups Anti Christian groups Extreme foul language Photos you might not want them to see Support of crime groups Support of drugs groups

  20. Social net working sites are HUGE! Go online and find out with your child how to use them properly…

  21. Miniclip and Neopets are very popular online gaming sites

  22. Advice to parents • Know what your children are doing online – even put a time limit on use • Ask them to teach you to use any applications • Keep the computer in a family room - this means you can keep more control of what they do (i.e. Webcams) • Help your children to understand that they should never give out personal details to online friends - personal information includes: • their messenger id • email or home address • mobile number and any pictures of themselves • If your child receives spam / junk email & texts, remind them never to believe them, reply to them or use them.

  23. Always keep communication open for a child to know that it's never too late to tell someone if something makes them feel uncomfortable.

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