Parenting in a Digital World – Keeping

Children Safe Online

• Consider how to take Good Parenting online

• Discussion on latest research and Risks

(3 C’s – Content Contact Conduct)

• Choose quality technology to support children's learning and

enjoyment, amongst a mix of other offline activities!

• Building children’s resilience online as they get older

• Practical tips and tools:

–Conversation starters

–Getting Involved with your child’s online activity

–Filtering updates, family boundaries

–General Support - Age ratings of Apps/games, when to buy

your child a mobile phone …..

• Contact katy.potts@islington.gov.uk

Parent leaflets (13 different languages) http://www.childnet.com/resources/supporting-young-people-online

• Reminders from today’s

sessions

• Conversations starters

• Signpost to key

organisations

• Practical tips

“What can I do now?”

Foster Carers• Things to think about when planning a

placement

• Privacy and confidentiality

• Establishing trust and giving advice

• What to do if something goes wrong

Adoptive Parents• Managing online contact with birth

family members

• Managing your family’s online

presence

• Preparing for and responding to

unmanaged contact

http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/fostering-adoption

This session can be used with Foster carers &

Adoptive Parents – 2 leaflets support discussion points below:

That was Then

This is now

Chinese city opens 'phone lane' for texting

pedestrians

15 million texts a minute

Remember Tech is positive –

Tech City/Old Street, New Computing

Curriculum, Year of Code

Ofcom – August 2013 – Changing Family Life

What tech

Is your

family

using?

Every year regulator Ofcom releases a report looking at children's use of

digital services. Its most recent, released in October, surveyed 1,600 children

aged five to 15.

• There has been a significant increase in access to, ownership of and

use of tablet computers by children of all ages. In contrast, the

incidence of TVs and games consoles in the bedroom is declining,

while smartphone ownership remains steady.

• Almost twice as many children aged 5-15 are going online via a tablet

than in 2013. (11 per cent of children aged three to four now having

their own tablet, up from 3 per cent in 2013)

• Younger children still prefer TV to any other device, and spend more

time in a typical week watching TV than doing any other media activity.

• Parents also treat boys and girls differently, monitoring some aspects of

girls’ online activity more closely than boys’.

• Gender differences are evident from an early age. Differences include a

preference for gaming among boys and for communicating online

among girls.

•

What Worries you?

Newspaper headlines are a great Conversation starter with your child

OFSTED Common risks:

Content

• exposure to inappropriate content, including online

pornography, ignoring age ratings in games (exposure to

violence associated with often racist language), substance

abuse

• lifestyle websites, for example pro-anorexia/self-harm/suicide

sites

• hate sites

• content validation: how to check authenticity and accuracy of

online content

Video sharing sites

Extreme Content Commonly Shared and Viewed by

Young People

Parents can to choose to set filtering via

home internet provider

http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-

carers/parental-controls

• Grooming (including with sexual intent or with the

intent to radicalise)

• cyber-bullying in all forms (this is what worries

many children/young people the most)

• identity theft (including ‘frape’ hacking Facebook

profiles) and sharing passwords

Contact

• privacy issues, including disclosure of personal information

• digital footprint and online reputation

• health and well-being (amount of time spent online (internet or

gaming)

• sexting (sending images of child is illegal)

• copyright (little care or consideration for intellectual property and

ownership (for example music and film)

Common risks:

Conduct

“Just like in the offline world, no amount of effort

to reduce potential risks to children will

eliminate those risks completely. We cannot

make the internet completely safe. Because of

this, we must also build children’s resilience to

the material to which they may be exposed so

that they have the confidence and skills to

navigate these new media waters more safely”

Safer Children in a Digital World The Report of

the Byron Review

Tools for parents

Get involved - Choose quality and age appropriate technology together

amongst a mix of other offline activities

Conversations - Talk, support and reinforce you are there if things go wrong

Talk to your child’s school

Agree Boundaries for whole family (including parents!) tech at bedtime, weekends,

bathtime, mealtimes, screen time)

Passwords, Google SafeSearch, YouTube Safety Mode

Parental controls on your Internet service (http://www.internetmatters.org)

(e.g. BT Family Protection)

Parental controls and separate accounts on your computer

Parental controls on your mobile phone

(e.g. Vodafone Content Control)

Parental controls on your games console

(e.g. Nintendo DS and important control to turn off 3d for children under 7, Xbox

and restriction of Xbox live)

Facebook privacy controls

Embrace Technology - City Old Street –

future careers, New Computing Curriculum,

Year of Code!

Be Creators not just Consumers!

Take time together to explore and choose

quality Apps, Games and Websites

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/

app-reviews