E-Safety - Parents

Below are some key resources to support you in keeping your children safe online outside of school. 

NSPCC Resources

The NSPCC have a guide to parental controls that can be used to filter access to the internet and control screen time here: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/parental-controls/ 

There is a page with resources for keeping children safe online, including an online safety quiz and ideas for how to have conversations with children around a variety of online safety topics: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/?utm_source=utm_youtube&utm_medium=utm_banner&utm_content=utm_descriptionlink&utm_campaign=utm_shareaware2014 

The NSPCC have a guide to chat apps online: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/social-media/chat-apps/ 

They also have a useful guide to supporting children with SEND and their wellbeing online: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/online-safety-families-children-with-send/supporting-online-wellbeing-for-children-with-send/ 

CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) 

CEOP have produced a collection of resources for parents that can be filtered by topic and age range: https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/parents/Listing/?cat=&ref=4765#mMain 

AI Safety and Resources

Common Sense Media have created a parents guide to AI: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/parents-ultimate-guide-to-generative-ai 

They have also created a series of AI risk assessment that can be very useful in exploring AI tools and their risks to children: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/ai-risk-assessments