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Helping Keep Children
Safe Online
 Welcome 
Lorna Naylor
Anti-bullying Co-ordinator
Children, Families and Cultural Services
Money management
Confidence
Communication
skills
Learning
Online?
Research
Computer skills
Creativity
Commitment
Supervised/Unsupervised Access Points
IN SCHOOL
Generally supervised,
protected and
monitored
OUT OF SCHOOL
WE NEED TO DO
MORE THAN
SUPERVISEWE NEED TO
HELP EDUCATE
Often no filtering,
supervision or
monitoring
CHALLENGE = to ensure that children are safe
wherever they use the internet
Special Education Needs
Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) can use the
internet in educational, creative, empowering and fun ways,
just like their peers. However, they may be particularly
vulnerable to e-safety risks.
Specific things to consider for
children with learning difficulties
• Children and young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder may make
literal interpretations of content, which will affect how they respond.
• Some children may not understand some of the terminology due to
language delays or disorders.
• Some children do not understand the concept of friendship, and
therefore trust everyone implicitly. They do not know how to make
judgments about what is safe information to share. This can lead to
confusion about why you should not trust others.
• There is some concern around cyberbullying. We need to remember
that some children with SEN or disabilities may be vulnerable to being
bullied through the internet, and may not recognise that they are being
bullied.
• In addition, some children may not appreciate how their own online
behaviour may be seen by someone else as bullying.
Websites and Technologies...
Positives, Risks and Actions
 Social networking
 Instant messaging/BBM
 Online gaming
 Mobile technology
Facebook Security
If your child is setting up a Facebook
account, consider the following:
•Help them set up their account – make sure that
they don’t put any unnecessary personal
information.
•Don’t make them any older than 13-17. Facebook
have separate security settings in place for younger
users
•Use your email address as the main contact – this
way you can see the people who are ‘friending’,
messaging and commenting on your child’s profile.
Talk through the privacy settings – go
through the settings step-by-step
Set privacy settings to ‘friends only’ and ensure that the
friends they have are ones they know and trust in the
real world.
• Limit the amount of adult ‘friends’ they have – these
could be friends of yours or family members. These
users may post content which you would not want your
child to see!
• If your child is already an underage user, revisit their
profile with them and ensure that these steps have been
implemented; it is never too late to take control.
Talk to them about some of the things that
can go wrong
• Discuss bullying, unwanted contact and inappropriate
content.
• Ask them to talk to you about anything that makes them
feel unhappy.
• Learn how to report any issues directly to the site.
Risks
 Inappropriate content
 Unwanted contact
 Overuse
Tips
 Leave all gaming devices in a family space
 Open up communication - talk to your child about the sites they are using and
why they like them
 Explain that people lie online and they are not always who they say they are
 Explain that people can be mean online and don’t always have their best interests
at heart
 Ask them to never give out personal information
 Set parental controls
 Set time limits on how long they can game for. Allow time for non-technology
based activities and allow an hour ‘screen free’ time before bed
PEGI
PEGI (The Pan-European Game Information age rating system) was established in
2003 to help European parents make informed choices
Violence - Game contains depictions of violence
Discrimination - Game contains depictions of, or material which may
encourage, discrimination
Sex - Game depicts nudity and/or sexual behaviour or sexual references
Drugs - Game refers to or depicts the use of drugs
Fear - Game may be frightening or scary for young children
Bad Language - Game contains bad language
Instant Messaging and Private Chat
Risks
 Unwanted contact
 Webcam capability
 Private moments
 Usage
Tips
 Ask your child to never accept people they don’t know and trust in the real
world
 Inform them that giving out personal information can be dangerous. They
need to treat personal information such as the school they go to or their
location like their tooth brush and not share it with anyone!
 Ask them not to webcam with people they do not know from the real world
and turn the webcam off after use!
 Teach them how to report a problem and delete people that make them feel
uncomfortable
Functions
Chat
Location
Risks
 Images taken and uploaded
 Location
 Personal messaging
 Usage
Tips
 Is my child old enough to have a mobile phone? Set boundaries
 Before buying your child a mobile, find out what functions it has – Internet, private
messaging, built in applications
 Set parental controls where required
 Set mobile rules - no mobile phone in the bedroom at night, mobile free time
before bed, no use after lights out
New site check list
 What can you do? - Functions of the site or
technologies
 Is there any parental information available?
 How do you report a problem?
 Can the account/profile be made private?
 Does it have any parental controls?
Parental controls
How can they help?
 Block sites that are not age appropriate
 limit inappropriate and illegal material
 Set timings – automatic switch off at bedtime
 Monitor activity
Can you get an app for that?
YES!!!
Vodafone has launched two apps to protect children and young people and to
empower and inform parents as smartphones play an increasingly important
role in how families manage their daily lives.
•Vodaphone Guardian- helps parents to manage their child’s smartphone by
providing protection from inappropriate calls, messages and online contact
Vodafone also provides Content Control that help prevent access to agesensitive content and services on mobile phones, such as those rated 18..
•Vodafone Digital Parenting- this app aims to help parents get to grips with
some of the digital devices and services their children enjoy, such as
Facebook®, Google and smartphones, and to get more involved in their
digital world. It is available on a range of Android devices and provides a
selection of articles from our Digital Parenting magazine.
•www.vodaphone.com
What is Bemilo?
• Bemilo is a safe mobile network, managed by parents,
used by children.
• Bemilo safety pack costs from £2.95 a month.
• Bemilo gives parents full control of their child’s mobile
phone usage. They can control the costs i.e. how much
they spend each month, they can control time of day that
their children can chat with their friends using voice and
SMS, and they can control when data is on or off. In
addition to this functionality, Bemilo offers parents a
whole host of controls to monitor and check their
children’s mobile online activity should the needs arise.
• Bemilo operates through the Vodafone network which
covers 99% of the UK’s population.
• www.bemilo.com
What is Cyberbullying?
Threats
Hacking
Prejudice
Stalking
Manipulation
Exclusion
Public postings
Advice for parents on cyberbullying
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Discuss cyberbullying with your children
- always respect others
- treat your passwords with care
- block/delete contacts & save conversations
- don’t reply/retaliate
- save evidence
- make sure you tell
Report the cyberbullying
- school
- service provider
- police
SEXTING
Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit
messages or photos electronically, primarily
between mobile phones and/or the internet.
Sexting is an extension of cyberbullying when
someone (or a group of people) deliberately
attempts to hurt, upset, threaten or humiliate
someone else. This includes when a recipient is
made to feel uncomfortable as a direct result of
the content, or asked to do something which
makes the recipient feel distressed.
Beatbullying’s research of 11-18
year-olds found that:
* 38% said they had received a sexually explicit or
distressing text or email (male: 36% | female: 39%)
* 70% of young people knew the sender of the message.
45% of messages were from a peer, 23% from a current
boyfriend /girlfriend and just 2% from adults
* Of the 25% who received an offensive sexual image, 55%
were issued via mobile phone
* 29% have been chatting online chat when someone started
talking about offensive or up-setting sexual things (male:
24% | female: 31%)
* In this instance, 45% said the chat was instigated by a peer,
10% by an ex-partner and 2% by an adult
SEXTING
HOW TO STAY SAFE
The safest way is to not take such photos - or allow them to be taken. Resist
pressure to be photographed. Failing that, there are ways to guard your privacy
better both on the phone and on social networking sites.
How to increase privacy on your mobile phone
• Ensure your phone is password protected
• If your phone is sold or goes for servicing ensure that all photos are deleted
How to increase privacy on social networking sites
• Do not become ‘friends’ with people you do not know or trust
• Report content on a social networking site that you believe is inappropriate to
the site administrators
• Check your general privacy settings: you can usually choose your profile to be
visible to everyone, to networks of which you are a member, or only to approved
friends. Restricting it to approved friends is the safest option as deter,ined
strangers can often circumvent checks to enter school or college networks
• Check settings for content you have uploaded: privacy of your photos, videos or
applications may not be covered by general profile settings. Check through
settings on pages where you manage your content and limit access to friends
SEXTING
If you are concerned about this issue and want
advice or if you want to report an incident
contact:
www.beatbullying.org
www.ceop.gov.uk
Online Reputations
• “It takes many actions to build a good
reputation, and it only takes one bad one
to lose it”
- Benjamin Franklin
In August 2009 a survey revealed that 45% of employers use social media to
check out job applicants
What employers look for
According to the same survey, 35% of employers have
rejected candidates based on:
• Provocative or inappropriate photos or information
• Drinking or using drugs
• Bad-mouthing previous employees, colleagues or clients
• Poor communication skills
• Discriminatory comments
• Lied about qualifications
Young people should understand 2,3 or 5 years may seem
like a long time in their world but actions today could hurt
them in the future.
The Child Exploitation and Online
Protection Centre
CEOP is the UK national lead agency who deal with the
sexual exploitation of children in the UK and abroad
www.ceop.police.uk
www.facebook.com/ceop
Click CEOP