Online Relationships

How to Support Children to Build Safer Online Connections | Primary

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This webinar will provide senior leaders, designated safeguarding leads and teaching staff with practical advice and guidance on how to support children of primary school age in choosing, building and maintaining online connections which are healthy, beneficial and safe.

How to Support Children to Build Safer Online Connections | Secondary

  • Available On Demand

This webinar will provide senior leaders, designated safeguarding leads and teaching staff with practical advice and guidance on how to support young people of secondary school age in choosing, building and maintaining online connections which are healthy, beneficial and safe.

Online Grooming: How to Recognise and Respond to a Continuing Threat

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This webinar will provide headteachers, designated safeguarding leads (DSLs), teachers and all school staff with practical advice and guidance on how they can keep children safe and disrupt the online grooming process.

An Introduction to Online Relationships

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The internet's ability to connect us with others who share our values, our sense of humour or our interests is a benefit that also has to be treated cautiously: after all, these are very often people who we ONLY know online. In this short explainer video presented by Myleene Klass, we examine online relationships - and how understanding them (and the associated risks) is key to safeguarding children and young people in the digital world.

Crowdsourcing

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Crowdsourcing involves a large number of people online contributing something - votes, ideas or most commonly money - towards a specific cause: it could be scientific or genealogical research; for charity; or to help fund a commercial project. Watch our five-minute video to make sure you're not lost on the subject of crowdsourcing.

Whistleblowing

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Part of our Online Relationships Series 2020-21

Catfishing

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Fake online profiles are hardly new, but some individuals on the internet take it to the next level - formulating credible life stories, using authentic-looking pictures and effectively crafting a believable identity to fool the unwary. What do these people actually want, and how can we learn to spot them? Our bite-size video on catfishing explains how to avoid being reeled in.

Location Tracking

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From planning a route for your journey to finding the nearest cashpoint or café, there are times when location services are a blessing. That isn't always the case, however - and sometimes (for children and young peeople especially) having our location pinpointed through a phone or tablet is a definite risk. Check out our quick video briefing on location tracking.

Technology Related Communication

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From tweets to TikToks and from messaging to memes, the online world is awash with ways for people to express themselves at the click of a mouse or the touch of a screen. Our short video covers the essentials of tech-related communication.

Online Grooming

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Online grooming is a nightmarish situation for parents and carers, and - even more pertinently - a potentially life-altering one for its young victims. Our short explainer video addresses the key issues that trusted adults need to be aware of.

Online Radicalisation

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Many groups with extreme political views attempt to use the internet to indoctrinate potential recruits to their cause - and impressionable young people are a prime target. This short video tells you what you need to know.

Sexting

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Part of our Online Relationship Series 2020-21

Digital Intimacies: Supporting Pupils to Navigate Sexual Content Online

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This webinar will provide school leaders, subject leads and teachers with practical advice and support on how they can have age-appropriate conversations with children around sexual content online.

Curriculum Considerations: Online Relationships and RSHE

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This webinar will focus on how schools should approach this creating a fair and balanced curriculum which considers the new Ofsted guidance and educates children about online relationships whilst also promoting positive mental health and well-being across the whole school community.

Online Relationships Explained

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Making connections online with people who we don't know in 'real' life can be fraught with risk - particularly for young people, and especially if the relationship begins to develop into something beyond a friendship. This bite-size video will quickly bring you up to speed on the often complex subject of online relationships.

Let's Connect this Christmas (Some Way)

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They’re back! Those loveable lads from Musicalternative have teamed up with us again to scatter a seasonal soupçon of sparkle.

What Parents And Carers Need to Know about Group Chats

  • Published 27th April 2022

This week's free online safety guide focuses on group chats. It highlights a number of risks such as bullying, inappropriate content and unknown members.

What Parents Need to Know about Group Chats (Spanish)

  • Published 27th April 2022

This week's free online safety guide focuses on group chats. It highlights a number of risks such as bullying, inappropriate content and unknown members.

Brighten Someone's Day Online

  • Published 16th March 2022

This week’s free online safety guide celebrates Red Nose Day 2022. It suggests simple ways to brighten someone’s day online – including video calling, posting a kind comment or sharing a feelgood playlist.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Yubo

  • Published 9th March 2022

This free online safety guide focuses on Yubo. It highlights a number of risks such as cyberbullying, inappropriate content and flimsy age gates.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Wink

  • Published 15th February 2022

This free online safety guide focuses on Wink. It highlights a number of risks such as grooming, cyberbullying and inappropriate content.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Wink (Spanish)

  • Published 15th February 2022

This free online safety guide focuses on Wink. It highlights a number of risks such as grooming, cyberbullying and inappropriate content.

10 Top Tips for Respect Online: A Digital World for Everyone

  • Published 2nd February 2022

This week's free online safety guide focuses on tips highlighting ways that adults can support young people’s positive online behaviours and show them how to avoid getting into difficulty as they learn to negotiate the continually evolving digital landscape.

10 Top Tips for Respect Online: Inspiring Children to Build a Better Digital World

  • Published 2nd February 2022

This week's free online safety guide focuses on 10 top tips for respect online: inspiring childing to build a better digital world, it takes a look at a number of tips such as how to prevent internet addiction, being aware of the dark side, and pressing ‘pause’.

10 Top Tips for Respect Online: Inspiring Children to Build a Better Digital World (Spanish)

  • Published 2nd February 2022

This week's free online safety guide focuses on 10 top tips for respect online: inspiring childing to build a better digital world, it takes a look at a number of tips such as how to prevent internet addiction, being aware of the dark side, and pressing ‘pause’.

10 Top Tips for Respect Online: Digital World for Everyone (Spanish)

  • Published 2nd February 2022

This week's free online safety guide focuses on 10 top tips for respect online: a digital world for everyone, it takes a look at a number of tips such as protecting yourself, replying wisely and being forgiving.

Let's Connect this Christmas (Some Way) - Lyric Sheet

  • Published 8th December 2021

By now you’ll have seen our collaboration with Musicalternative for this year’s National Online Safety Christmas song. If you feel like joining in – perhaps with your family or with your class – we’ve reproduced the lyrics here for you!

10 Ways You Can Share Kindness Online

  • Published 16th November 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on sharing kindness online, it takes a look at a number of tips such as reaching out, thinking before commenting and recommending fun things.

10 Ways You Can Share Kindness Online (Spanish)

  • Published 16th November 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on sharing kindness online, it takes a look at a number of tips such as reaching out, thinking before commenting and recommending fun things.

What Parents Need to Know about Tinder

  • Published 6th October 2021

This free online safety guide focuses on Tinder. It highlights a number of risks such as privacy concerns, emotional harm and potential pressure to meet strangers.

What Parents Need to Know about Tinder (Spanish)

  • Published 6th October 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on Tinder. It highlights a number of risks such as privacy concerns, emotional harm and pressure to meet strangers.

Back to School | Online Safety Tips for Children

  • Published 1st September 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on going back to school. It highlights a number of tips such as how to spot fake news, reporting something offensive online and how to deal with bullies.

Back to School | Online Safety Tips for Children (Spanish)

  • Published 1st September 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on going back to school. It highlights a number of tips such as how to spot fake news, reporting something offensive online and how to deal with bullies.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Hoop

  • Published 25th August 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on Hoop. It highlights a number of risks such as grooming, visible location and no age verification system.

Online Fair Play: the Dos and Don'ts of Online Conduct

  • Published 7th July 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on online fair play. It highlights how to tackle a range of potential risks such as online strangers, hurtful messages and an overspending of time online.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Roblox (Spanish)

  • Published 28th April 2021

This free online safety guide focuses on Roblox. The guide takes a look at how to tackle a range of potential risks such as in-app purchases, would-be online daters and chat functionality.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Rec Room

  • Published 24th March 2021

This free online safety guide focuses on Rec Room: a social hangout game, where users meet up with friends to explore and create rooms, each containing a different experience. The guide looks at how to tackle a range of potential risks such as online bullying, questionable connections and sexual content.

What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Avakin Life

  • Published 17th February 2021

This week's free online safety guide focuses on Avakin Life. Described as a place where teens and adults can make new friends, Avakin Life is a mobile game that has more than 1.4 million daily users. The guide takes a look at how to tackle a range of potential risks such as in-game chat, adult themes and in-game spending.

What You Need to Know about Catfishing

  • Published 16th September 2020

This free online safety guide focuses on catfishing. The guide takes a look at how to tackle a range of potential risks such as online grooming, fraud and identity theft.

What You Need to Know about Tech-Related Communication

  • Published 10th September 2020

This free online safety guide focuses on tech-related communication. It takes a look at how to tackle a range of potential risks such as a false sense of security, hidden messages and impacts on your child’s mood.

What Parents Need to Know about Online Grooming

  • Published 6th May 2020

A free guide to help parents and carers protect their children from the increased risk of online grooming as children spend more time online, including identification and available support.

7 Questions to Help You Start a Conversation with Your Child about Online Safety

  • Published 7th November 2018

This free online safety guide focuses on a series of seven questions that will help you as a parent or carer, start an initial conversation with your child around online safety. The guide takes a look at how to tackle a range of potential risks such as personal information, gaming addiction and online relationships.

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