Professional Safety Surface Installers: July 2017

The internet is full of great content to engage and educate young people. Challenges online are popular among young people and some challenges, such as the ASL Ice bucket challenge and the no makeup selfie, can promote and raise money for great causes.

However some of these challenges aren’t for a good cause, challenges such as Blue Whale and Neck Nominate videos can harm to young people and adults who take part. All children and parents need to be ready to deal with such challenges, whether they be rumored or real.

Peer pressure

One of the key issues raised over online challenges is that of peer pressure. Young people can sometimes be drawn into these challenges because it is what all their friends are doing and saying no can seem like a very hard thing to do. Children’s charity Childline have support for young people who are worried about peer pressure online and can be contacted via their website or on 0800 1111.

Our Advice

The internet is constantly changing, and new issues, challenges and online platforms are arising all the time. We would advise parents and carers to have an open and honest conversation with their children. Ask your children about what they’re seeing online and be prepared to talk about some difficult topics such as self-harm, suicide and negative influences online. The NSPCC has some great advice for when you need to talk about difficult topics.

It’s important that your children feel that they are able to come and talk to you about any issues they may be having online. Although it may seem difficult to have this conversation, we have some conversation starters that can help you to start a discussion with your family about their time online.

Other things to consider to keep your child safe online are:

Age restrictions: Think about the age restrictions on the sites you family use. Common Sense Media and Net Aware are great sites to see what other parents think of the age rating on different platforms so that you can make an informed decision of whether your family should be using them. Our social media guides gives an in depth look at the age requirements and safety features on popular social media sites.
Privacy setting: Most social networking sites have privacy settings to help you manage the content you share and who you share it with; you can decide if you want your posts to be shared with your online friends and followers only or with the public. You can also decide who can contact you on sites you use within the privacy settings.
Block and report: Make sure you child knows that they can block or report any user that makes them feel uncomfortable online. Childnet have some guidance on how to make reports on different websites.

If you are worried about a child:

Young Minds is a children’s charities which focuses on young people’s mental health https://youngminds.org.uk
Papyrus is the national charity for the prevention of young suicide. https://www.papyrus-uk.org

Other helpful links:

Our Parents’ Guide to Technology gives advice about smartphones, gaming devices, tablets and other internet-connected devices we also have a parents guide to the parental controls offered by your home internet provider.
With our Social Media Guides you can find out more about the safety features available on these popular social networks.

For professionals working with children

If you are a Professional worried about a child you can contact the Professionals Online Safety (POSH) Helpline

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Tuesday 25 July 2017

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Friday 21 July 2017

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Online Safety...and all that jazz!

In this blog, Lucy de Burgh, UKSIC Assistant Project Manager and Online Safety Live Coordinator talks to us about the latest series of Online Safety Live sessions across the UK.

I’m not one for blowing my own trumpet, but right now I’m afraid I’m going to give you a full rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “When the Saints go Marching in” (metaphorically speaking)!

I’ve been responsible for coordinating our Online Safety Live programme for 5 years now and the summer is giving me a very brief lull in the proceedings to allow me to take stock and review what we’ve achieved.

Testimonials

I still feel a wave of pride whenever we receive positive comments like:

“A really interesting and useful session. The delivery was excellent too. Thank you.”

“Great seminar – a valuable use of my time! Thank you” and

“The session was really informative, relevant and coherent. It was great to get resources to use straight away in our setting. More schools and organisations should be made aware of these sessions.”

Something for nothing

I really can’t take all the credit. In fact I can take very little what so ever, but I’m happy to ride on the coat-tails of the team every now and then. The people who should get the credit for Online Safety Live are our fantastic team of online safety consultants and specialists. To date, they have delivered a total of 300 Online Safety Live events to thousands of people working with children up and down the country, and all completely for free. There’s literally nothing else like it.

Everyone who attends a session is sent an evaluation report to complete to help us understand what they think of them. So far for 2017 we’ve received 799 evaluation responses, of those 784 people said that they feel better equipped to protect children, users and their organisation as a result of attending an event.

Unique insight

I personally I feel that, as a partner in the UK Safer Internet Centre and through our Professionals Online Safety Helpline, SWGfL has a unique insight into the current trends and issues professionals, parents and young people face on a day-to-day basis.

What’s also clear is that our commitment to current research, and our work directly in schools, with the young people themselves, means we are [BC1] positioned to update the children’s workforce on all that is Online Safety. Crucially we have access to the most current information and are able to signpost towards a wide range of great, practical and well considered resources.

The burning questions

The new academic year will see a new round of events starting in the South West then continuing to Northern Ireland, the North East and the Scottish Isles. We leave no unchartered territory and will be on hand to answer your questions, questions like:

“What are the latest apps and technologies that young people are using?”
“Which policies do I really need?”
“What are Ofsted looking for?”
“How do we manage sexting incidents?”

Open invitation

Well, I’m coming to the end of my jazz solo now, but in my final blast - I realise that time is all too limited and workloads are heavy these days, but if we are in your area, and you can make it, I urge you to come along and see us.

You really will gain much more than you expect and will come away with something, something that will make you think, maybe something you will put to use in the future and best of all it won’t cost you a penny.

Online Safety Briefings

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Thursday 20 July 2017

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Wednesday 19 July 2017

Mandatory age verification to view online pornography

Yesterday the Digital Minister Matt Hancock signed the commencement order for the Digital Economy Act 2017 which achieved Royal Assent in April.

The Act addresses a range of measures to protect consumers in the digital age, including the introduction of a new age verification process for accessing online pornography.

Expected to be in place by April 2018, this legislation will place requirements on commercial pornography providers to establish robust age verification controls to make it harder for under-18s to access this content.

See our blog from September 2016 to find out more

Minister of State for Digital, Matt Hancock said:

“The Digital Economy Act is about building a strong, safe and connected economy. It will secure better support for consumers, better protection for children on the Internet, and underpin a radical transformation of government services.”

Will Gardner, Chief Executive of Childnet said:

“Protecting children from exposure, including accidental exposure, to adult content is incredibly important, given the effect it can have on young people.

“Steps like this to help restrict access, alongside the provision of free parental controls and education, are key. It is essential to help parents and carers, as well as young people, be more aware of this risk and what they can do to prevent exposure and also to make sense of exposure if it happens.”

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Staying safe online in the summer holidays

With the summer holidays fast approaching children and young people will have more free time to spend with friends, family and online.

For some, this will be spent using the internet to keep in touch with friends, catch up with the latest apps and online trends, and playing their favourite games.

Sit down together

For parents, the summer holidays are a great chance to sit down with your children. Together you can visit their favourite sites and play their favourite games, this is a great way to stay up to date with online lives and show them that you’re interested in what they are doing.

The holidays are also a good opportunity to have positive conversations about the internet, so if something ever does upset your child online they would feel more confident in confiding in you. Our conversation starters are a great tool to help encourage an open dialogue with your child.

Social media and staying in touch

During the summer holidays, young people may want to keep in touch with their friends through social networking sites or games. It’s a good time to ask them about what sites they use, and check any age requirements as many social media sites require users to be at least 13 years old

Encourage your children to use the privacy tools on the services they use, so that the content they post is only available to people they know and trust in real life. To help your children set these up, we have a guide to the privacy settings on the different sites . You can also download the UK Safer Internet Centre's safety checklists for popular sites such as Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook.

Talking about their time online

The holidays are also a good opportunity to talk to your children about their online friendships, the sites they use and encourage best practices online. Why not:

Watch Red and Murphy talk to Freddie and Alisha about asking before they watch videos online
Read Digiduck’s Big Decision and help educate children aged 3 - 7 about how to be a good friend online
Take the ‘Be the change’ quiz and help 8 – 13 year olds to explore how children and young people share images and videos online
Have an adventure with Kara, Winston and the SMART Crew and help them to make SMART online decisions

Sharing holiday pictures

Some children may want to share photos and videos of what they are getting up to in their summer holidays online. Talk to your children about what types of photos are appropriate to share, and who they are okay to share with. Photos can hold clues that give away personal information. For example, if you share a selfie of you and friends, are there any landmarks or street signs that give away your location?

This is true for photos you might share of your children too! It’s always worth asking children if they are happy with an image you want to share online. Our Safer Internet Day research found that 2 in 5 (40%) of 8-17s said that in the last year their parents or carers have posted a photo of them that embarrassed them, rising from 34% of 8-12s to 46% of 13-17s.

Make a family agreement

A family agreement is a great way to start a conversation with your whole family about how you all use the internet and discuss together how to behave in a positive way when online at home, at school or at a friend’s house.

The agreement involves generating promises, these are positive statements about how your family want to look after each other online and how you should treat others online. The summer can be one of the best times to sit down as a family and agree these promises together.

Most importantly: enjoy the summer holidays!

This blog was originally posted on the Childnet Website

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New Online Safety Guides for professionals working with children

Today we are launching new tailored online safety guides for key professionals working with children, including social workers, healthcare professionals, residential care settings and governors/trustees.

These guides add to our existing guides for teachers and for foster carers and adoptive parents.

It is essential that all professionals working with children are empowered to support and safeguard children and their families in their use of digital technology, as well as knowing how to protect their own professional reputation.

Our new guides provide tailored advice for professionals working with children, with a range of topics covered, including:

Roles and responsibilities in relation to online safeguarding, including effective policy and practice
Understanding the latest technologies and trends
Managing online safeguarding incidents
Getting online safety training
Supporting children, young people, parents, carers
Professional reputation

Find out more in our Advice Centre.

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