Online Safety
Parental Guides for Supporting your Child with Online Safety
We are subscribed to an online service called National Online Safety, which provides a vast range of resources for parents, teachers and children to ensure child safety whilst using online resources.
National Online Safety also provide fantastic information sheets on apps, game, websites and phenomenon that children may come across whilst using devices with online access.
Whilst we will share these with you periodically, you may wish to set up your own account to access these guides.
A link to National Online Safety Guides
National Online Safety App for Parents
Below are some handy information sheets to help you step-by-step update your settings on apple and android products to reduce the risk of harmful material reaching your child. Although these are set up in a style for phone, they can easily be used the same way on tablet devices.
How to set parental controls - Apple phones and tablets (iPhone, iPad)
- Parental controls for apps and games
- Parental controls age-inappropriate content
- Parental controls privacy iPhone
How to set parental controls - Android phones and tablets
- Parental controls for apps and games
- Parental controls for privacy protection
- Parental controls age-inappropriate content
We will continuously be updating this page with useful content and sources of advice to ensure your children are kept safe when accessing the internet. Please make use of the links below to protect your children at home too.
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Think u Know
'Think u Know' is the official website of CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. This website offers advice to parents, schools and the pupils themselves.
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Childnet
Childnet is another rich resource of advice and guidance for families on all aspects of the internet and social media.
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Childnet
Supporting Young People Online - Leaflet available in 14 languages
- Arabic - Supporting Young People Online
- Bengali - Supporting Young People Online
- English - Supporting Young People Online
- Farsi - Supporting Young People Online
- French - Supporting Young People Online
- Hindi - Supporting Young People Online
- Polish - Supporting Young People Online
- Punjabi - Supporting Young People Online
- Somali - Supporting Young People Online
- Spanish - Supporting Young People Online
- Turkish - Supporting Young People Online
- Urdu - Supporting Young People Online
- Vietnamese - Supporting Young People Online
- Welsh - Supporting Young People Online
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The Safer Internet Centre
The Safer Internet Centre's website offers advice on how you can filter the information your children access.
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Parent Info
Here you'll find a collection of articles, tips, expert advice and resources designed to help parents keep up with what their children are doing on-line. Parent Info is a collaboration between The Parent Zone , which has been providing information and support to parents for a decade, and CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command of the National Crime Agency.
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The Complete Guide to Online Parental Controls
Guidance for parents/carers on how to set controls on a range of devices and web-based applications.
Our 'Safe Use of ICT' policy can be found on our 'Policies' page.
Guidance on anti-cyber bullying can be found within our 'Feel Safe & Secure' (anti-bullying) policy. For ease of access, this is also outlined below.
See also 'Internet Safety' page within the 'Children' menu.