Online Data Protection Self-Review Tool
360data is a unique self-review tool designed to help schools review and improve their data protection policies and practices. Built on the same approach as […]
Online safety
The world changes…children don’t
Modern day Romeo & Juliet What would the story of Romeo & Juliet look like in the present day? Star-crossed teens messaging, sending snaps and […]
Key headlines on online safety
This is a really useful infographic to share with staff and governors and shows results of from a survey of online safety practice across all […]
Keeping Children Safe in Education
As you may know a consultation launched in December 2015, and the Department for Education has now published its response and revised statutory guidance to ‘Keeping […]
Becoming critical thinkers online
It is so important that we teach young people to be critical thinkers when viewing online content. There is so much that we see every […]
Keeping Children Safe in Education
New guidance published today. This is an important update and well worth a read through, important to note that teachers must now read and UNDERSTAND […]
Appropriate Filtering and Monitoring – Safer Internet Centre
In December 2015, the Department for Education published proposed changes to ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for consultation applying to schools in England. Amongst the […]
Catfishing Apps Let Kids Fake Everything from Texts to Tweets
Digital literacy is so important for both children and adults. How often have you seen something on social media that you find hard to believe? […]
A quarter of a million UK students now using sugar daddies
Will I ever stop being amazed! via ‘A quarter of a million’ UK students now using sugar daddies, according to app – BBC Newsbeat.
Monitoring pupil internet use
New Guidelines out for Consultation “Schools in England must set online filters and monitor pupils’ internet use under plans to protect them from radicalisation, education […]
Twitter launches Periscope live video streaming app
Read a review on the new Periscope app Twitter makes a move into live-streaming video with a free app that allows public and private broadcasts from celebrities […]
Inspecting safeguarding in maintained schools and academies
Latest paper updated March 2015 Some amendments made to this paper: Footnote 13 amended. Para 41 amended in relation to trainee teachers and disqualification Inspecting […]
‘They’d ask to see parts of my body’ – BBC Newsbeat
Louise was nine when she first began logging on to gaming and social networking websites, posing nude and using webcams to perform sexually explicit acts […]
Life after Facebook
Top trending social media apps Common Sense Media have put together a really useful guide on the 15 sites and apps that young people are […]
Under Pressure – Childline’s latest report
ChildLine’s latest report outlines the challenges and pressures young people are facing online. During 2013/14 ChildLine counselled almost 300,000 children and young people and out of […]
