Internet Safety for Parents

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Internet Safety for Parents Carers

• Rebecca Avery
• e-Safety Officer, Kent County Council

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What is e-Safety?

• e-Safety safeguarding children in the digital
  world
• e-Safety not about restricting children, but
  educating them
• e-Safety being educated ourselves to be able to
  support and help our children
• What is causing the problem?
• The Digital Divide Digital Natives vs
  Digital Immigrants
• Technology vs People?

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How much do you know?

• What is IM?
• How old should you be to have a Bebo account?
• Can it be a criminal offence to send someone a
  threatening message?
• What does POS mean?
• 1 in ? Children have met someone face to face
  that they met online?

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How do we use the internet?

• What are the benefits?

• What are the risks?
• Content Illegal, Inappropriate, biased, spam,
  inaccurate, advertising
• Contact Grooming, Child abuse, Cybercrime (ID
  theft)
• Conduct Cyberbullying and Behaviour (target and
  perpetrator)

• Access to Global information
• Educational Resources
• Entertainment, games and fun!
• Communication with friends/family
• Networking and friendships Sense of Community
• Privacy for expression of Identity
• Accessible
• Develops Key skills
• Communication
• Collaboration

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Have you heard of any of these...?
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CEOP and the VGT

• The Child Exploitation and Online Protection
  Centre (CEOP) was set up in April 2006 to protect
  children from online sexual exploitation
  www.thinkuknow.co.uk
• CEOPs Report Abuse button has received over
  5,600 reports in 2008-09 (54 was from under 18s)
• Approx 100 per month from CYP
• 30-45 boys
• 55-70 girls
• CEOP works as part of the Virtual Global
  Taskforce (VGT) and is made up of law enforcement
  agencies from around the world such as Australia,
  Canada, Italy and America.
• This means any reports of abuse made can be
  answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week worldwide.

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Using the Report Abuse Button www.thinkuknow.co.u
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Chatrooms

• Between 2 and 4 of all reports of abuse that
  goes to CEOP relates to Chatrooms

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Club Penguin
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IM Instant Messaging

• Benefits
• Private chat
• Increases creativity, communication and
  collaboration
• Record conversations (only in some IM services)
• Risks
• Private chat but can add anyone!
• Popularity contests
• No filtering/moderation
• Webcam use
• 34 of grooming reports made by children under-18
  incited a child to perform a sexual act 20
  incited a child to watch a sexual act
• 49 of all reports of abuse that goes to CEOP
  relates to IM

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Social Networking

• Most popular (currently) UK Sites are
• Facebook 13 8.5 million users
• MySpace 13 5 million users
• Bebo 13 4.1 million users
• SN Sites are the 2nd biggest area where CEOP
  receives abuse reports (16 of all reports)
• 70 of children aged 9 -19 use Social Networking
  sites
• 27 of 8 to 11-year-olds claim to have a profile
  page on a social networking
• Currently 41 of children using Social Networking
  sites have their profiles open to anyone

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Cyberbullying

• What is Cyberbullying?

• Advice for Parents

• "Cyberbullying" is the use of Information
  Communication Technology (ICT) particularly
  mobile phones and the internet, to deliberately
  upset someone.
• DCFS 2007
• What makes Cyberbullying different?
• Impact
• Location
• Anonymity
• Target and Perpetrators
• Motivation
• Evidence

• Be careful about denying access to technology
• Be aware your child is as likely to be a bully as
  a victim
• Discuss cyberbullying with your child
• Report the cyberbullying- School- Service
  provider- Police

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Also Consider...

• Gaming and Games Consoles
• Mobile Phones
• User Generated Sites
• Inappropriate Content
• Do you know?
• How these sites work?
• How to report a problem?
• How to use parental controls?
• Balanced use e.g. Addiction

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Where does it come from?
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• Everything that's already in the world when
  you're born is just normal
• Anything that gets invented between then and
  before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and
  creative and with any luck you can make a career
  out of it
• Anything that gets invented after you're
  thirty is against the natural order of things and
  the beginning of the end of civilization as we
  know it until it's been around for about ten
  years when it gradually turns out to be alright
  really
• Douglas Adams Stop worrying and learn to love
  the Internet

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Follow the Golden Rules

• Ground Rules
• Online Safety
• Location
• Dialogue

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Parental Controls

• Filtering and Parental Controls on
• Laptop/Computer (Free or purchased e.g. Vista,
  Live Family Care, K9, Net nanny etc)
• Mobile Phones (Contact provider to put controls
  on)
• Games Consoles (Check the console website for
  family advice)

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Safer Browsing

• Safer Searching
• Consider if a search engines safe search
  function can be removed?
• Try Family Friendly or educational sites to start
  with
• www.askkids.com
• http//kids.yahoo.com
• www.kidsclick.org
• www.cantufind.com
• www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/find
• www.totlol.com

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www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents
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Hector Protectorwww.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/hector
sworld/safetybutton.aspx
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www.childnet.com
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www.childnet-int.org/kia/parents/cd/
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www.bbc.co.uk/chatguide/parents
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Summary

• Get involved
• Dont dismiss it because you dont understand it!
• Use tools to help but dont rely on them 100
• Have family rules/boundaries for safer use
• Use the support thats out there (School,
  websites, other parents)
• Always remember whilst your child may be
  technology literate, you are life literate!

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Any questions?

• Thank you
• Questions