Useful Sites for children

The latest information on the sites you like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what’s good, what’s not and what you can do about it. If you look after young people there’s an area for you too – with resources you can use in the classroom, at home or just to get with it. Most importantly, there’s also a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online. All the information here is brought to you by the team at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre

Test your internet safety knowledge with Hacker, listen to some Stay Safe songs with Helen Skelton, News Kids On the Block and Bobby Lockwood and get some tips from the Horrible Histories gang.

This program is designed for children ages 5-17, their parents and carers. With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations, NetSmartz entertains while it educates.

An interactive site for both children and adults to enjoy and learn from covering a whole range of eSafety issues in a user friendly way.

A useful website that offers online guides to social media / internet safety. It also offers online courses for parents re internet safety free of charge.

Find out about the laws that protect you and your data; help your child keep safe online and keep internet baddies at bay with valuable tech tips.

iKeepSafe’s vision is to see generations of the world’s children grow up safely using technology and the internet. Their belief is that YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A COMPUTER EXPERT TO KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE ONLINE and their site is packed with helpful advice on how to do this.

‘Know IT All’ resources for parents and carers highlights the gap that exists between children’s real experience online and adult awareness of these experiences. The site contains information about positive ways young people are using different technologies, what the risks are to users and it outlines practical advice in avoiding or minimising risks when using online and mobile technologies.

Advice and tools to help protect yourself and your family online. Including information about Google SafeSearch, designed to screen sites that contain sexually explicit content and remove them from your search results. While no filter is 100% accurate, SafeSearch helps you avoid content you may prefer not to see or would rather your children did not stumble across.

This guide has been created to answer these questions and introduce some of the most popular devices. Highlighting the safety tools available and empowering parents with the knowledge that they need to support their children to use these technologies safely and responsibly.