Online Safety
This year's Safer Internet Day focus is all about protecting children from scams online.
Below are links to useful information to help you protect your child at home.
Parental Controls
Protecting young people from inappropriate online content.
Parental controls - UK Safer Internet Centre
Protecting against online fraud
Many of us spend a huge amount of time online. The internet makes our lives easier, but also provides a rich hunting ground for criminals who want to steal our money and personal details.
Protecting against online fraud - Stop! Think Fraud
Improve your password security
Your passwords are like the keys to your home. If they fall into the wrong hands, criminals can get inside your accounts and steal your information.
To protect your bank details and personal information, it’s vital that the passwords to your most important accounts are:
- unique
- hard to guess
- kept secret at all times
Improve your password security - Stop! Think Fraud
Double your defences with 2-step verification
Turn on 2-step verification and double the protection on your most important accounts, especially your email. It can be turned on in a matter of minutes – time well spent to keep the fraudsters out.
Turn on 2-step verification (2SV) - Stop! Think Fraud
Top Online Safety Tips from the
Have a conversation
It is really important to chat with your children on an ongoing basis about staying safe online. Not sure where to begin? These conversation starter suggestions can help:
Ask your children to tell you about the sites they like to visit and what they enjoy doing online.
What games do you and your friends like to play online? Can you show me the websites you visit the most? Shall we play your favourite game online together?
Ask them about how they stay safe online.
What tips do they have for you, and where did they learn them? What is OK and not OK to share?
Ask them if they know where to go for help.
Where can they go to find the safety advice, privacy settings and how to report or block on the services they use?
Think about how you each use the internet.
What more could you do to use the internet together? Are there activities that you could enjoy as a family?