04 March 2022
'We work to empower people with knowledge and tools to build resilience against harmful, false, and misleading information.'
Learn more about recognising fake news, misinformation and disinformtion.
Useful resources for Parents and Carers
03 March 2022
The internet and social media are full of facts and opinions. Most are balanced and informative but others can be misleading or even harmful to share with our friends and families. Worse still, false information can often be about important things that impact whole communities, like health or the environment.
20 February 2022
What happened in a Rockville, Maryland, high school this January was a scene all too familiar for police officers across the US. An altercation between two boys ended with a shot ringing out, and a 15-year-old left bleeding on a bathroom floor.
What witnesses to the crime did next, however, shocked even Betsy Brantner Smith, a nearly three-decade law enforcement veteran and spokesperson for the National Police Association.
"The students started tweeting about it," she said. "That's just, unfortunately, the era we live in."
27 January 2022
A range of resources to help you deliver sessions for Safer Internet Day, whether you are a school, nursery, youth group, library, police service, or wider. These educational resources have been specifically designed to support educators in delivering messages about our campaign theme of respect and relationships in online gaming.
27 January 2022
.Gov campaign:
'This website brings together advice and resources to help you keep the children in your life safe.'
23 January 2022
A resource from iNEQE
'We have recently received multiple reports from parents and school staff about harmful content on gaming platform Roblox. To help you understand how to keep children and young people safe, we’ve created this important Roblox Parents Guide.
The latest reports we’ve received have outlined worrying accounts of younger children being sent ‘friend requests’ from strangers and exposure to sexualised content, with in-game characters imitating sex in the Roblox game Brookhaven.'
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