Keeping your child safe online | Kings Furlong Junior School

Keeping your child safe online - key points

Set boundaries in the online world just as you would in the real world.
Talk to your child about what they are up to online. Don’t leave them alone!
Keep up-to-date with your child’s development online. How are they communicating with others online?
Keep all equipment that connects to the internet in a family space.
Know what connects to the internet and how.
Use parental controls on devices that link to the internet, such as the TV, laptops, computers, games consoles and mobile phones.
Lock down sites so that the information is not public.
Obey age restrictions, particularly on social media sites.

See what the NSPCC has to say here!

Online safety and remote learning

As a result of the current situation, children and young people are spending an increasing amount of time online. Online learning has been extremely beneficial, but as children gain confidence in using online resources, they will naturally explore other areas of the internet - which comes with it's own risks. For children to stay safe online, it's important for them to have conversations about their online activities with adults. Hampshire County Council suggest this video as a starting point:

Supporting primary school children online: advice from an expert

Resources from Parent Zone

KFJ online safety leaflet

National Online Safety - parent guide to internet controls

Useful links:

Childnet Useful resources to help keep your child safe online.

Useful links for online safety for parents (from Hampshire County Council)

Kiddle Kiddle is a safe search engine for kids powered by Google.

Internetmatter.org Gives you advice for each type of tablet and device, so that you know how to turn security and parental control settings on.

Qustodio Qustodio lets you monitor multiple devices and sets limits about what children can access and when. Other products are available such as Familoop.

Thinkuknow How to stay safe on the internet

National Online Safety

Digital family pledge (from Vodafone) Help your family set some house rules on how you use tech and behave online

Connected devices

There are so many connected devices on the market now, each with their own unique way of setting up parental controls and restrictions. Equally, the functionality of these devices can be daunting with chat, game downloads, in-app purchases, third party apps on the devices (such as social media, Netflix) etc.

Firstly, look up the device on YouTube using a simple 'how to' query e.g. 'how to restrict in-app purchases on Playstation 4'. Secondly, the wonderful people at Internet Matters have a one stop shop for setting up devices, which can be found here.

As well as devices, parents also need advice according to the age of their children. Again, Internet Matters has this covered for children aged 0-5, 6-10, 11-13 and 14+ here.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) have a nice, simple guide for parents to help with understanding gaming here.