Discover free downloadable resources and engaging activities for various age groups, fostering a safer online environment this Safer Internet Day! Safer Internet Day 2024 takes place on 6th February 2024 and the official resources are now available to download for free. The theme this year is Inspiring Change? Making aRead More →
How Ofsted inspects safeguarding in schools webinar explores: This webinar is now available on YouTube for you to watch and hopefully pick up some useful information and tips on what Ofsted will be looking for when they visit your school. Outline of sessionRead More →
Young people’s relationships with AI chatbots is perhaps more common than you might think and it is an area of AI that is becoming more and more popular. ‘Coded Companions’ is a new report from the youth platform VoiceBox, which presents in-depth research into how AI chatbots affect young people’sRead More →
The UK Safer Internet Centre’s Professionals Online Safety Helpline has introduced new guidance to aid educators and professionals working with young people. The guidance aims to answer frequently asked queries on topics including reporting content of concern on social media, impersonation on social media platforms, and responding to incidents ofRead More →
Better Internet for Kids (BIK) teacher corner is a place especially for teachers, educators and other adults who work with children and young people. This is a ‘one-stop shop’ for learning and teaching about digital citizenship and online safety. You will find free information, advice and resources to support youRead More →
An Online Safety Calendar for 2023-2024 is freely available from Childnet. From September all the way through to August, this calendar has all the key days you need to know about, resources you can use as well as key points in the year that you could use to refresh yourRead More →
The Department for Education’s (DfE) updated statutory guidance for schools and colleges in England, ‘Keeping children safe in education’ came into force on 1st September 2023. This revised guidance was shared for information in June, but there have been further amendments to paragraphs 142, about the appropriateness of filtering and monitoringRead More →
Free SCLN Tools available to download now. Talking about online life can be challenging for all of us. Having speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) makes it even more difficult. Parent Zone have produced free resources to help and to make it much easier for anyone to describe how theyRead More →
Talk Relationships – free lesson plans and elearning offer from the NSPCC. You can now access free lesson plans and also sign up the NSPCC ‘Talk Relationships’ elearning courses to support you with delivering sex and relationship education in your setting. Talk Relationships supports secondary schools to deliver inclusive sexRead More →
Free online safety books from Book Creator in partnership with Common Sense Education. These activity books are for 5-11 year olds and can be used and remixed whenever you want. They are a great starting point for teaching key messages in digital citizenship and online safety and students can addRead More →
CEOP has an opportunity for you to help inform new films for 9-12 year olds. They are working with Brickwall Films to create a series of age appropriate videos to help protect 9-12 year olds from online sexual abuse. They would like to hear from students in this age rangeRead More →
If you are concerned about Artificial Intelligence and Online Safety, then a good starting point would be to look at the guidance provided by South West Grid for Learning. Their support page breaks down everything you need to know about AI and how to stay safe online. It explains whatRead More →
The final Be Internet Legends assemblies of the year are aimed at Year 6 for their transition to secondary school. The assembly shows pupils how the five Legends pillars can help them to settle in and support each other in their new environment, staying positive and safer online. There willRead More →
An update from CEOP Education – Sky News – an opportunity for schools. Sky News are seeking primary or secondary teachers to deliver a CEOP Education lesson with children on camera, to highlight the work that schools are doing to protect children from online sexual abuse. Only a short portionRead More →
Parents and carers resources from CEOP are the perfect way to encourage open and balanced conversations at home on a wide range of topics. There are six activity sheets to download and share, topics covered: For each one of the above, there is also a video to support these topicsRead More →
Send me a pic? is a resource pack of session plans and short film clips that aims to develop young people’s knowledge and awareness of what nude image based abuse is and the resulting impacts. The National Centre for Social Research has been asked to carry out research to evaluateRead More →
Learn how to support young people to report nudes shared online, to see if they can be taken down. When a young person loses control of a nude image of themselves they can use the Report Remove tool to see if the image or video can be taken down, andRead More →
Research undertaken by the UK Safter Internet Centre has found that we need more and better conversations with young people about what they do, see and experience online. Entitled ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’ It has thrown up some really interesting information, itRead More →
This key strategy strives to improve age-appropriate digital services and to ensure that every child is protected, empowered and respected online. The child-friendly version of the new European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK+) is now available for free download. Alternatively, it is also possible to order printedRead More →
Despite only emerging in 2016, TikTok is now the fastest-growing social media platform around. As a result, understanding how it works and how to use it safely really matters for families. However, it’s one thing wanting to find out more about functionality, reporting or privacy settings. Having the time toRead More →