eSafety
Please find below useful information regarding eSafety.
Guide for Parents and Carers on Managing Children’s Digital Lives
The Children’s Commissioner for England has produced a guide for parents and carers on managing children’s digital lives, designed to demystify some of the issues such as the challenge of managing children’s everyday online habits, what you should and shouldn’t be doing, and the often-complicated parental controls on individual social media platforms, to help make talking to your child about them easier. It offers advice on setting boundaries and bringing up difficult topics that cannot be ignored – not just once, in a cursory way, but regularly.
An introductory blog on the guide from the Children’s Commissioner can be viewed here:
The guide, along with an Activity Pack for children, can be accessed here:
Social Media 'Checklists'
The SWGfL group have produced a series of easy-to-use checklists to help parents better-understand their children's use of the most common Social Media platforms.
AI Chat Parent Factsheet
Following reports in the news regarding inappropriate, over-sexualised and abusive material on AI Chat Apps, Lincolnshire Police have created the attached factsheet that can be downloaded below, which we hope you find useful. Whilst AI can be a powerful creative tool and has many benefits that will change how we use the Internet it is important parents are aware that safety features have not caught up with all available apps, so they need to be checked by an adult and monitored in order to avoid harmful content being seen by children and young people.