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November 10, 2022Community, E-Safety, Safeguardingby

Online Safety: How to Combat Online Bullying

Defined as “ongoing hurtful behaviour towards someone online”, cyber-bullying makes its victims feel upset, uncomfortable and unsafe. In the digital world, it has numerous forms – such as hurtful comments on a person’s posts or profile; deliberately leaving them out of group chats; sharing embarrassing …
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November 3, 2022E-Safety, Parentsby

What Parents Need to Know About Sendit

Sendit is an add-on to Snapchat, not a standalone app: it requires users to have an active Snapchat account, which they then connect to Sendit. It’s important that trusted adults realise, therefore, that any risks associated with Snapchat also affect children using Sendit. Within the …
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November 2, 2022E-Safetyby

National Online Safety Poster: Amigo

Amigo is a social platform which purports to connect strangers from around the world – and, with built-in translation software, it reduces the expected language barriers. Focusing heavily on one-to-one chat, video calls and live streams, Amigo encourages its users to build up online relationships …
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November 2, 2022Community, E-Safety, Safeguardingby

National Online Safety Poster: Overwatch 2

With an age rating of 12+, the sequel to 2016’s Overwatch, is a futuristic shooting game with a focus on teamwork and strategy. Overwatch 2 is free to play, with an emphasis on competitive multiplayer action – meaning that children may want to play the …
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September 9, 2022E-Safety, Safeguardingby

An Online Safety Guide to Roblox

Roblox is one of the most popular video games on the market. By 2020, the game’s makers were claiming that more than half of children in the USA play it. As a ‘sandbox’ title, Roblox offers a huge amount of creative freedom: it lets players …
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August 23, 2022Community, E-Safetyby

What Parents Need to Know About Amazon Fire Tablets

The Amazon Fire Tablet is a popular choice: not only are Amazon’s own-brand devices more affordable than most other tablets on the market, but some models are designed specifically for youngsters (the Fire 7 Kids, Fire 8 HD and Fire HD 10 are aimed at …
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July 13, 2022Community, E-Safetyby

12 Ways to Champion Equality Online

A free online safety guide on 12 ways to champion equality online. In terms of the esteem it’s held in, women’s football has made impressive progress in a short space of time. That’s a bit like the online world: it’s come a long way, but …
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June 22, 2022E-Safety, Parentsby

Online Safety: Esports

British Esports describes ‘esports’ as “competitive gaming, human-v-human, usually with a spectator element to it”. In recent years, the esports industry has grown significantly – and is expected to reach an overall worth of $1.2 billion, with around 30 million monthly viewers, by the end …
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June 16, 2022Community, E-Safety, Schoolby

Online Safety: Twitch

The most popular channels focus (perhaps predictably) on Fortnite, League of Legends, Grand Theft Auto and Valorant – but whatever franchise someone favours, Twitch makes it easy to find fellow devotees to share gaming experiences with in real time, learning from each other and swapping …
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June 4, 2022E-Safety, Parents, Safeguardingby

What Parents Need to Know About Cross-platform Sharing of Inappropriate Content

Creepy characters like Slender Man or Huggy Wuggy. Dangerous online challenges. Songs or videos that aren’t suitable for youngsters. When things like these begin trending online, it can be difficult to prevent children accidently stumbling across them – especially if they use a range of …
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