E- Safety
Children and young people are open to many risks while being online or using their mobile phones, they may be lured into giving personal information; name, age, address and telephone numbers which could be used for identity theft or fraud.
Cyber bullying may include sending unpleasant texts, emails or instant messaging. They may find cruel messages or pictures about themselves and having their username stolen to spread lies or rumours about someone else.
Your child may unknowingly download viruses that can attach itself to another programme, if this is opened through a spam email it can then damage or create files and generate unwanted behaviour to your computer. As part of a government backed campaign; 'Zip it, Block it, Flag it' was launched in order to help children keep safe while on the internet; it offers tips for parents and children to stay safe online.
Young people also use mobile phones to communicate to people and can send images of themselves to their friends or publish them on the internet, once that image has been published then the sender has lost the power as to what happens to it. More seriously they may be groomed by individuals or paedophile that use the internet and mobile technology to identify and target potential victims. Sexual predators may use fake information to get close to children or young people e.g. a false name, age and information.
Everyone had a role to play in empowering children and young people to stay safe while enjoying new technologies, just as it is everyone’s responsibility to keep our children safe in a non digital world.
Key points to follows;
• That the safety of children should be a vital concern for parents and for society.
• Efforts should be decisive in minimizing the availability of harmful and inappropriate material in popular parts of the internet.
• Parents play a major role in overseeing children’s access to material on the internet.
• Providing children and parents with appropriate guidelines, clear standards, signposts and somewhere to go when things go wrong.
• Video games must now be clearly labelled with age ratings, which are represented by a logo on the back of the game that represents each age group.
Ways To Reduce Risk When...
Cyber bullying may include sending unpleasant texts, emails or instant messaging. They may find cruel messages or pictures about themselves and having their username stolen to spread lies or rumours about someone else.
Your child may unknowingly download viruses that can attach itself to another programme, if this is opened through a spam email it can then damage or create files and generate unwanted behaviour to your computer. As part of a government backed campaign; 'Zip it, Block it, Flag it' was launched in order to help children keep safe while on the internet; it offers tips for parents and children to stay safe online.
Young people also use mobile phones to communicate to people and can send images of themselves to their friends or publish them on the internet, once that image has been published then the sender has lost the power as to what happens to it. More seriously they may be groomed by individuals or paedophile that use the internet and mobile technology to identify and target potential victims. Sexual predators may use fake information to get close to children or young people e.g. a false name, age and information.
Everyone had a role to play in empowering children and young people to stay safe while enjoying new technologies, just as it is everyone’s responsibility to keep our children safe in a non digital world.
Key points to follows;
• That the safety of children should be a vital concern for parents and for society.
• Efforts should be decisive in minimizing the availability of harmful and inappropriate material in popular parts of the internet.
• Parents play a major role in overseeing children’s access to material on the internet.
• Providing children and parents with appropriate guidelines, clear standards, signposts and somewhere to go when things go wrong.
• Video games must now be clearly labelled with age ratings, which are represented by a logo on the back of the game that represents each age group.
Ways To Reduce Risk When...
Mobile Phones-
•Phone retailers now market phones with filtering software that can stop children
from accessing inappropriate websites or images.
• Remind your children to never give out their mobile details to strangers or other people they do not trust as images can be sent via mobile and can be changed and shared online, once the image is out there they have lost control of it.
• Never use your mobile on public transport e.g. buses and tubes for fear of being attacked and the phone stolen.
•Phone retailers now market phones with filtering software that can stop children
from accessing inappropriate websites or images.
• Remind your children to never give out their mobile details to strangers or other people they do not trust as images can be sent via mobile and can be changed and shared online, once the image is out there they have lost control of it.
• Never use your mobile on public transport e.g. buses and tubes for fear of being attacked and the phone stolen.
Buying Online-
•Try and make passwords as long as possible, preferably combinations of letters
and numbers, using lower and upper cases and changing passwords as frequently as possible.
• Credit card details may be stolen if there on a non secure site, you can prevent this by using secure and trusted sites like PayPal.
• This can be reduced by using your firewall which can help prevent malicious software from gaining access to your private information/details.
•Try and make passwords as long as possible, preferably combinations of letters
and numbers, using lower and upper cases and changing passwords as frequently as possible.
• Credit card details may be stolen if there on a non secure site, you can prevent this by using secure and trusted sites like PayPal.
• This can be reduced by using your firewall which can help prevent malicious software from gaining access to your private information/details.
Social Networking-
• Never download images off an unknown user.
• Choose a username that could be used by either gender.
•To stop any email communication or instant messaging conversations if the person starts to ask questions that are too personal or sexually suggestive.
• Never download images off an unknown user.
• Choose a username that could be used by either gender.
•To stop any email communication or instant messaging conversations if the person starts to ask questions that are too personal or sexually suggestive.
Internet Use-
• Never to download images and emails from an unknown source which could
contain viruses.
• DO NOT give out any personal information e.g. name,
address, age, school as this could be used to groom a young child or identify
theft of a teenager.
• Children and young people should only visit chatrooms that are well monitored and never to accept offers off a private conversation.
• Never to download images and emails from an unknown source which could
contain viruses.
• DO NOT give out any personal information e.g. name,
address, age, school as this could be used to groom a young child or identify
theft of a teenager.
• Children and young people should only visit chatrooms that are well monitored and never to accept offers off a private conversation.