Child safety online

To keep your child safe you should tell them not to:

• Give out personal information to people they only know online, such as name and address, contact numbers, personal photos, bank details, PIN codes, and passwords.
• Supply details for any account registration without asking for permission and help from you.
• Visit chat websites that aren’t fully supervised.
• Arrange to meet an online friend in person without your knowledge and permission (if you agree to let them, you should always go with them).
• Give any indication of their age or sex/gender in a personal email address or screen name.
• Respond to unwanted emails or other messages.
• Keep anything that worries or upsets them online secret from you.
• Make use of parental controls on any internet-enabled device – Information on how to do so should be available on the service provider’s website.
• Agree and enforce boundaries with your child about what they can and cannot do online.
• Activate safe search settings on search engines.
• Consider monitoring your child’s internet use by checking the history folder on your browser as it contains a list of previously visited sites.
• Install and regularly update filtering software to protect against inappropriate internet access.