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Online safety at home
Online Safety at Home
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With your kids spending more time at home engaging with more of the fantastic online resources that are available online for both educational and fun purposes, you may be worried about an increase in screentime as well as online threats. We have compiled our top online safety websites with fantastic advice for parents and kids to reassure families about how to stay safe online when using gaming, using social media, online resources and general browsing as well as what to do if you encounter issues.
The Parentzone website is full of fantastic advice on how to access the online world safely and confidently. Their parent guides are a fantastic way for parents to become informed on the basics of a number of frequently used apps as well as tips on how to activate parental controls and limits including Zoom, YouTube, Netflix and Animal Crossing. There are also easy-to-use settings that enable parents to fully customise their child's use of the app from limiting screen time to blocking videos.
The Internet Matters site organises its advice by age and has really useful information on how to set up parental controls on devices such as smartphones, tablets as well as security options on your broadband service. You will also find a series of guides covering various online safety issues including emotional wellbeing, gaming and informative and reassuring advice for parents
Whilst YouTube is obviously a fantastic educational and entertaining resource for young viewers, we also recommend you check out the YouTube Kids app. Available on the Appstore and Google Play but not on PCs, it has been specially designed to be easy-to-use and intuitive for children as well as containing closely monitored content to reduce the risk of inappropriate material being available compared with the original site.
The government has recently (May 2020) issued some guidance for parents to help keep your children safe at home.
Swiggle is a child-friendly search engine aimed at ages 7+ to encourage safe and healthy attitudes towards online browsing. There is also a helpful parental guide for hints and tricks on how to support your child with this.
Should you spot anything online that you feel is harmful and needs to be reported to online providers - the Report Harmful Content website has advice for families on how to do this.
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