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The third ‘chapter' of the ‘Munch Poke Ping' project by Stephen Carrick-Davies has been been published. This resources has been completed with students from the Bridge Academy in Hammersmith, West London sharing their experiences of adult rated...

I'm attempting to document some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) around e-Safety topics to help schools and other settings. This is to build on our document " Safer Practice with Technology " which started life as a selection of similar...

Childnet International are launching their Film Competition 2012 and are hoping to build on last year's success and see another batch of fantastic short films promoting the positive uses of the internet (previous winners can be seen on their website...

The NFER have published a report " Protecting Children Online: Teachers' perspectives on eSafety " The report provides an analysis of the responses to questions from a bespoke NFER online teacher survey, using NFER's Teacher Voice Panel...

The Kent e-Safety Strategy Group are pleased to announce that the Staff ICT Acceptable Use Policy Template 2012 is being published to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2012 as part of "Connecting Generations" and exploring the digital world together...

Beatbullying today publishes Virtual Violence II: Progress and Challenges in the Fight against Cyberbullying - an in-depth study of the state of cyberbullying amongst children, young people and teachers in the UK. The report is commissioned by Nominet...

The theme for Safer Internet Day 2012 will be 'Connecting generations' and will take place on the 7 th February 2012 to encourage all internet users, whatever their age, to discover the digital world together safely. The UK Safer Internet Centre...

There has been an increasing number of requests for internet safety presentations and resources for Nursery, Reception and KS1 aged children, and therefore Childnet International have developed a set of resources to support settings in talking about being...

The UK Safer Internet Centre has released some information for parents in the run up to Christmas. A Parents’ Guide to Technology is an online resource providing advice for parents about the benefits, capabilities and potential risks of smartphones, gaming...

The theme for SID 2012 will be 'Connecting generations' and it will encourage all users, whatever their age, to discover the digital world together safely. The UK Safer Internet Centre will be encouraging parents, carers and grandparents to connect...

Next year, Safer Internet Day (SID) will take place on Tuesday 7 February 2012 and will be centred around the theme " Connecting generations and educating each other" . The UK Safer Internet Centre, together with the University of Plymouth is...

There is often a 'must have' gadget each Christmas and it’s usually technological! Parents can sometimes be swept along and not necessarily consider all aspects when making some of these present purchases, for example online access, age rating...

The Kent e-Safety Policy Template has been updated for 2012 by the Kent e-Safety Strategy Group to reflect the rapid changes in technology and to promote good practice within schools and settings. The e-Safety agenda relates to children and young people...

The TDA recently commissioned Sheffield Hallam University to work with two primary schools researching positive steps to achieving the outstanding grade from Ofsted in regards to safeguarding and e-Safety. The development and use of digital technology...

Today (26 October) the IWF not only marks its annual Awareness Day, but reflects on its 15 years of tackling online child sexual abuse content. The IWF is the UK reporting Hotline for images of child sexual abuse hosted anywhere in the world and UK-hosted...

Ofcom have published a new report which focuses on the importance of technology with children and teenagers and their parents. There are some interesting statistics uncovered including 12-15s say they would miss their mobile (28 per cent) and the internet...

The start of a new academic year is a great time to get parents and carers engaged and this year the team at CEOP have made it easier for schools and organisations to start the discussion. The specially produced ‘Back to School' resources, sponsored...

The Kent e-Safety Strategy Group are pleased to announce a new document: "Using Social Media and Technology in Education Settings". Online social media tools such as blogs, Wikis, social networking and video sharing sites can be excellent tools...

As the beginning of a new school year is here, Insafe continues its popular Back to School campaign offering teachers and schools a useful box of tools and tips to help start the year off on a positive note. This year the gift package for teachers includes...

Facebook has announced on its official blog that it will be making changes to have Friends list operate. Friend lists have been a feature of Facebook for some time, however very few users (approximately only 5%) are aware and make use of the feature....

Childnet international have launched a new set of resources ith the support of the TDA , which have been developed to inform and assist Trainee teachers and NQTs. . There are three key components to this new resource: a guide designed to support teachers...

In the next few days Facebook will be rolling out changes to its privacy settings options to all users. Facebook state that they believe the new privacy settings will offer more control to users and will make managing personal data more visual and straightforward...

New Ofcom research published today (4 th August 2011) reveals the extent to which the UK has become "addicted" to smartphones. The Ofcom Communications Market report looks at the huge growth in smartphone take-up in the past 12 months - over...

Anglia Ruskin University has published a study which identifies how bullying via texts, e-mails, social networks can have detrimental effects on mental health for people aged 11 to 19.This reseacrh would estimate that nearly one in five UK youngsters...

According to a recent study published today undertaken by the Nominet Trust , eighty per cent of parents believe that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have the ability to take over their children's lives. And one in three parents...

Google has launched a tool to enable users to understand and manage what people see when they search for you on Google. The tool called "Me on the Web" and is part of the Google Dashboard (users register to access personalised Google apps and...

Formspring is a social networking site with over 20 million users. Formspring lets users set up a profile and enables them to post questions to other users as well as answer questions posted to them. It can be integrated with other social networking sites...

Safer Internet Day (SID) 2012 will take place on Tuesday 7th February 2012 and the theme will be around 'Connecting Generations' . This theme lends itself to looking at educating each other and placing the subject of positive internet use and...

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has recently launched some guidance for school leaders following increasing number of concerns raised by members about the problems experienced with social networking sites (with Facebook being the one...

Following the success of their 2010 film challenge, Childnet International is pleased to announce that they will be running their second summer film challenge for young people aged 7-16 (previous winners can be seen at http://www.childnet.com/film/ )...