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How do we protect young people online?
The news today of a man who posed as Justin Bieber online and has subsequently been charged with more than 900 child sex-related crimes in Australia, raises significant concerns on how to protect children online.
Looking at girl’s digital lives this International Women’s Day
Wednesday 3rd March 2017 marks International Women’s Day. International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
BBC highlight concerns about Facebook reporting
Our statement following a BBC report into how Facebook handle reports.
Primary Digital Leaders School share their thoughts about the programme
The Primary School Digital Leaders from Fosse Way Academy have written this great guest blog to tell us about their time on the programme. They explain what they have done as part of the programme, what they have found challenging and what they like most about being a Digital Leader.
SRE to be statutory in all schools
Relationships education to be statutory in all schools from September 2019 – with plans to also make PSHE statutory following further consultation.
Government launches major new drive on internet safety
This week the Government has announced that Ministers have begun work on a new Internet Safety Strategy aimed at making Britain the safest country in the world for children and young people to be online.
Launch of Childnet Film Competition 2017!
Online safety charity Childnet call on young people to ‘Be the Change’ and enter the 8th Childnet Film Competition.
Cyberbullying resources for parents and teachers
We have numerous resources, for both parents and for teachers and professionals, to help you if you think a young person is being bullied online.
What is Musical.ly?
Ellie Proffitt, one of our Education Officers, looks at the popular app Musical.ly.
Key statistics from the Safer Internet Day 2017 report.
For Safer Internet Day 2017 the UK Safer Internet Centre carried out research looking into the digital lives of young people, and the role that images play in this.
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