Undoubtedly there will be many families where their normal ‘rules’ regarding children’s screen time will have been relaxed or potentially gone completely out of the window as you wrestle with keeping them occupied. Amidst the wealth of amazing facts and experiences, however, there will still be some people using the situation for illegal and unsavoury activities. There is a host of Internet Safety material available and two particularly useful sites/documents are:
Thinkuknow is the education programme from the National Crime Agency’s CEOP. Thinkuknow aims to empowers children and young people aged 4-18 to identify the risks they may face online and know where they can go for support. They have created a package for children and their families over the coming weeks and months. www.thinkuknow.co.uk
The NSPCC have a whole host of really useful videos, very brief, often only a couple of minutes, regarding various areas of child safeguarding issues. www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety