Nottingham City: Safeguarding Children Board
Stay safe Online Leaflet – Polish
Social Media Apps
We have been asked to make parents aware of the updated library on social media apps. Please be mindful that these particular apps are not the only ones where there have been safeguarding concerns; perpetrators utilise any platform where they can access children.
See the link below for a list of apps which can be used as a platform to access children; the list is not exhaustive and please be aware that new apps are constantly developed which children and then potential perpetrators access.
It should be noted that when we use the term “of concern” we, by implication, promote the message that anything not on this list is safe which of course is not the case. It is not the apps that are the risk but rather the people that use them. It is also worth noting that the minimum age is not necessarily a bar to children if they enter their incorrect age.
Guides for Parents and Carers
Advice for Parents on Cyber-bullying
Digital Footprint Online Safety Guide
Image and Identity Online Safety Guide
Privacy and Security Online Safety Guide
Relationships and Grooming Online Safety Guide
Children and young people spend a lot of time online – it can be a great way for them to socialise, explore and have fun. But children do also face risks such cyberbullying or seeing content that’s inappropriate. That’s why it’s important for them to know how to stay safe online. Click for advice on keeping you child safe.
GUIDE FOR PARENTS:
Digital Parenting Magazine: Issue 5
USEFUL WEBSITES FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS
What Parents Need To Know About Tumblr
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/
For years 3 and 4
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/cybercafe/Cyber-Cafe-Base/
For years 5 and 6
Teaching about hoax sites
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/about
Information Literacy materials on analysing websiteshttp://novemberlearning.com/resources/information-literacy-resources/Download attachment NSPCC online Safety Guide
CEOPS-WHAT WE DO
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children. That means we are part of UK policing and very much about tracking and bringing offenders to account either directly or in partnership with local and international forces.
But our approach is truly holistic. Walk through the CEOP Centre today and within any one team you will find police officers specialising in this area of criminality working with professionals from the wider child protection community and industry. You will find seconded staff from organisations such as the NSPCC, teams sponsored by the likes of VISA and SERCO and experts from government and corporations such as Microsoft offering specialist advice and guidance.
That approach is dedicated to building up intelligence that in turn drives the business, informs our operational deployments, steers our CEOP Academy programmes to law enforcement, child protection and educational sectors and drives our dedicated Thinkuknow programme for children and parents of all ages.
It is an approach that sees the development of specialist areas such as our Behavioural Analysis Unit, our approach to victim identification or the development of our Child Trafficking Unit as well as filtering into all areas of our outreach activities such as the Most Wanted initiative and our public awareness plans.
In fact the real lifeblood of the CEOP Centre is intelligence – how offenders operate and think, how children and young people behave and how technological advances are developing – all are integral to what we are about and what we deliver.
But similarly our results would not be possible without inclusion. So we are about opening the policing doors to new ways of thinking around this crime, working with industry, government, children’s charities and the wider policing community to explore all options and possibilities. In fact we want and will explore all options because we believe you can never stand still when dealing with such a complex, ever changing issue and where apathy can and does result in devastating consequences.http://www.ceop.police.uk/