Online Safety

 Below are some links to websites that provide resources and helpful advice as to how to help your children remain safe online. 

CEOP

CEOP stands for Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command. CEOP is a organisation which helps keep thousands of children and young people safe from sexual abuse and grooming online every year. They have helped thousands of children and young people, as well as their parents and carers seeking advice about how to keep their children safe online.

CEOP are willing to give advice about how to keep your child safe online and their website allows you to make a report directly if something has happened to your child online which has made either yourself or your child feel unsafe, scared or worried. This could be from someone they know in real life, or someone they have only ever met online.

Their website provides you as parents many links to helpful videos and information that you may find helpful to read through and access.

Screen time and boosting digital resilience

CEOPs surveys have shown that screen time has been a key concern for many parents and carers.

However, high-quality screen time can offer opportunities for learning, staying connected and boosting digital resilience.  

Please follow the links below to watch helpful videos about how to monitor this:

Thinkuknow

Thinkuknow is the education programme from NCA-CEOP, a UK organisation which protects children both online and offline. This website gives advice about staying safe when you're on a phone, tablet or computer.

Please see helpful resources and videos below:

Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to improving the lives of all children and families. They provide trustworthy information about apps, games, movie and television programmes. You can search for any game or movie and get an appropriate age rating and reviews from other parents.

Please note the following games and apps are not recommended for children under the age of thirteen according to common sense media.

TikTok (Originally known as Musical.ly)

Fortnite

Roblox

Snapchat

National Online Safety Website

Child Online Safety Advice during Lockdown

Please access the below resources to get helpful advice and tips to monitor your child's safety.

Watchkin

Watching videos on Youtube can expose your children to seeing unwanted and sometimes inappropriate adverts and songs. Using Watchkin enables you to filter videos and remove adverts to watch videos without any distractions in a family friendly environment.

All you need to do is copy and paste the Youtube URL link into the Watchkin website and it will be instantly filtered. At Great Berry, watchkin is used in all classroom settings to filter videos from Youtube.

Any other helpful resources: