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Online Safety

Children are spending more time online, in fact the time spent watching TV has actually reduced in favour of online media.

Talking about online safety a little, but often, works best.

Ofcom’s research into media use
 

CEOP

CEOP is a law enforcement agency and is here to keep children and young people safe.

If someone online has acted inappropriately towards you, your child or young person you know, please use the CEOP button to report it.

CEOP Report Button

Checking apps, games and websites

It’s sometimes difficult to know if media is appropriate for our children, especially if it’s an app or website that we haven’t used.

Common Sense Media lets you search for movies, apps, games and websites and see their official age rating as well a recommended age from other parents.

Common Sense Media

NSPCC Net Aware, is a similar service. Helping you find ratings and information on games, online apps and more.

NSPCC Net Aware
 

Great Advice 

Settings

Accidents can happen and sometimes inappropriate content is available in places you wouldn’t expect. We recommend setting parental restrictions and content filtering (available from most internet service providers).

No restrictions are completely infallible. It’s ok for children to make mistakes, it’s important that they know to get help from an adult.

Help and advice

If you have an urgent issue, something online was really not acceptable then please use the CEOP button above to report it directly to the police.