Find out more (training and resources)
The Prevent team and West Midlands Police offer a free workshop for parents and carers to help keep their children safe online. The training looks at:
- Apps and appropriate ages
- Safety settings
- Grooming, sexting, bullying, radicalisation and extremism
- Gaming
- Introducing house rules
- How to approach conversations and what to do if your child is a victim
SWGfL worked with TikTok to provide a free online event, exclusively for professionals working with children and young people, to explore what digital wellbeing looks like in 2022 and provide information and tips to stay safe online. Watch the video.
Online safety resources
- The NSPCC has developed a suite of resources to support parents and carers in keeping children safe. Their advice guides include online safety, including specific advice around video games, self harm, sexting, leaving children at home alone and talking PANTS.
- Get Safe Online is a website dedicated to help you know that your children are safe on the internet. Their guidance is broken down into age ranges and has specific sections for gaming, social network, music and movies and parental control software so you can go straight to what you're looking for.
- Think U Know have produced Online Factsheets for children and young people at both primary age and secondary age.
- The Childline site has tips and resources aimed at children and young people to help them stay safe online.
- Stop it Now! work to prevent child sexual abuse, working with people who are worried about themselves and others and help to support parents and families.
- UK Safer Internet Centre - A wealth of resources and guidance for supporting children and young people to stay safe online.
- Cyber Aware - National Cyber Security Centre has a link to a wizard/tool to get a cyber action plan based on your current use and habits.
- Internet matters provide expert advice, information and more about using parental controls and keeping your children safe online. Their blogs include information about the latest apps, sites and internet trends. They also provide support for young people with learning difficulties and disability and their parents and carers
Parents Supporting Young People Online – Childnet provides advice for parents in twelve different languages including Bengali, Urdu, Polish and Arabic.