How to keep your child safe online By

How to keep your child safe online By Aaron, Ebony and Joshy

Screen time Nowadays children spend a lot of time looking at screens, at school, at home they are everywhere, there are ways to control this remotely through apps or device settings. This will mean the device cuts off when the time has run out. Search the app store for screentime to find Free apps to help control screentime.

CEOP is an agency that investigates crime relating to online safety, it is the cyber side of the police this is only to be used if any abuse asking for personal details or cyber bullying is constant or a nuisance to make you feel bad, depressed or worried. To help you out to get to CEOP there is a link on the school website.

Age restrictions Many of your children’s console games will be age restricted like films are. While it is at your discretion whether children are allowed to play these games to help prevent it. Companies provide settings on consoles to help stop children buying these games, it is a good idea to read these restrictions and look at the content of games yourself before allowing them to play Find more information on youtube on how to do it!

Google safe search is a setting on google that helps prevent your child from inappropriate search results. While Google can be very reliable sometimes results can be off topic On the Google App; On Phone/Tablet

Don’t talk to strangers Many online games have some element built in communication and anyone could be on the other side, it is important that your child knows when to stop talking to someone. You can even disable Microphone features in game. Have a look in the console settings for how to control who can communicate with

Guided Access(Apple Devices) or Screen Pinning (Android) These are features built into the operating systems that allow you to lock access to one particular app on a device. On Apple devices it is incredibly easy to set up:

On Android it is also as easy; To set Screen pinning up; To enable it when you want to use it;

S. M. A. R. T Make sure, when your child is online, they follow S. M. A. R. T. it outlines how to stay safe online Smart is taught in to aswell. remind them of it at school. It is good home

Social Media Accounts All websites that come under social media will have some form of age restriction on them On most apps such as Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Musical. ly and skype Youtube however has no age restriction on watching videos but does require you to be 13 to have and account and subscribe to other channels. An option in this case is to use Youtube kids Socila media is hugely important in childrens ves nowadays, and if you decide to allow your child to have an account consider checking on it regularly and research/educate them on how they can stay safe.

Youtube kids is a child friendly version of youtube where there are limited amounts of videos and teh videos are more thoroughly reviewed on what content is available.