We take all aspects of safety very seriously, and this includes keeping students safe when they use the internet. The following links are provided to support parents and carers to keep their children safe online:
- Thinkuknow provides advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA) on staying safe online
- Parent Info is a collaboration between Parentzone and the NCA providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
- Childnet offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support
- Internet matters provides age-specific online safety checklists, guides on how to set parental controls on a range of devices, and a host of practical tips to help your child get the most our of their digital world
- London Grid for Learning has support to keep your child safe online, including tips to keep primary aged children safe online
- Net-aware has support for parents and carers from the NSPCC including a guide to social networks, apps and games
- ACT Early has advice for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation
- UK Safer Internet Centre has tips, advice, guides and other resources including parental controls offered by home internet providers and safety tools on social networks
Harmful or upsetting content online
Get support by:
- reporting harmful online content to the UK Safer Internet Centre
- getting government advice and trusted resources from Educate Against Hate on safeguarding from radicalisation, building resilience to extremism, and promoting shared values.
Concerned about bullying or abuse online?
Get advice on reporting online abuse from the National Crime Agency's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command. Alternative get advice and support from the Anti-Bullying Alliance, a specialist organisation for children who are being bullied.
Parent Toolkit - Online Issues
National Crime Agency - Latest Child Exploitation for Parents: Financially motivated sexual extortion
All schools and college in the UK have recently been sent information from the National Crime Agency, raising awareness of the recent rise in reporting of financially
motivated sexual extortion (a type of online blackmail often known in the media as ‘sextortion’). Children and young people worldwide are being
targeted.
This type of crime involves an adult offender (often from an organised crime group based overseas) threatening to release nude or semi-nude images
and/or videos of a child or young person, unless they pay money, or meet another financial demand, such as purchasing a pre-paid gift card.
Victims of any age and gender can be targets, however a large proportion of cases have involved male victims aged 14-18.
A child or young person is never to blame if they have been a victim. Offenders will have tricked, groomed and/or manipulated them into sharing an image.
Find out more about online blackmail on CEOP Education’s parents and carers website.
Advice from the National Crime Agency for parents
- Northamptonshire Safeguarding Partnership - a multi-agency service providing advice and information to safeguard children.
- Rehab4addiction - a useful source of resources and information about addiction and mental health plus a helpline to offer immediate assistance to those struggling with addiction in Northampton
- Parentsafe - useful information for parents about how to keep your child safe: online and beyond
- Commonsense - a tool to check the content of any online platform or game, etc
- CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) - a site to help you protect your child online
- Parent online safety presentation containing lots of useful tips and resources to help keep children safe online and have key safeguarding conversations
