Facebook has announced a major revamp of how users control their privacy on the site. Among the changes, items posted online will each have their own sharing settings determining who can see them...

Some useful advice from  Rob Ellis    1.       If you know the identity of the perpetrator contacting their parents or, in the case of older children, the young person themselves to ask ...

Please see below for advice from the Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning concerning Formspring:- YHGfL have recently responded to some concerns around Formspring  Formspring is a social n...

  A new booklet has been launched today to help provide parents across the globe with the tools and the confidence  they need to help their teenagers improve their privacy and safety on Facebook ...

What are you doing to make sure your school and pupils are e-safe? Read this useful primer from Becta

This article from the TES references BECTA's advice to interactive whiteboard users and suggests a projector upgrade to safer wall-mounted solutions with shorter throws (this is where the projector...

This website will help you to identify school activities that may need to be covered by a licence and directs you to the appropriate organisation for further information and advice. Creative works are...

Many games consoles such as the Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 and other handheld consoles such as PSPs and DSlites now allow Internet access at home and it is important to educate your children and yoursel...

The first phase of Becta's new safeguarding area went live recently to coincide with Safer Internet Day and our successful 3rd biennial safeguarding conference: Empowering children and young people in...

This report is based on evidence from a small-scale survey carried out between April and July 2009 in 35 maintained schools in England (includes 4 Bradford schools). It evaluates the extent to which t...

Safer Internet week begins on February 7th 2011 with the 8th of February designated as Safer Internet Day. Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more res...

Children will be warned not to hand over intimate details to strangers they meet online, in the country's first "green cross code" for the internet which will be launched by the Government today. Re...

Orange UK has just launched a new film aimed at parents called "Not knowing's not enough".  You can view this on Orange's safety website here  (see the film link on the right hand side of the page)Â...

When you're searching on Google, we think you should have the choice to keep adult content out of your search results. That's why Google have developed SafeSearch, a feature that lets you filter sexua...

Online shopping allows us to shop from the comfort of our own homes and also opens up the whole world as a shopping mall; we can purchase hot air balloon trips for special occasions or the weekly shop...

Staff at Parkwood Primary School in Keighley demonstrate five key messages which underpin its whole school approach to e-safety. Pupils deliver an e-safety assembly to parents, and local authority ...

Staff at Parkwood Primary School in Bradford demonstrate five key messages which underpin its whole school approach to e-safety. Pupils deliver an e-safety assembly to parents, and Education Bradfo...

As every cautious scientist will tell you, you can never prove that something is absolutely safe and no one would want to gamble with the health of children. However given the latest worries about Wi-...

Instant messaging (IM) has proved more popular than chat rooms in recent years. Common messaging clients include Yahoo Messenger , AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk and MSN Messenger (Windows Live Me...

  There are literally hundreds of social networking sites available across the globe; the most common ones used in the UK are Bebo, Facebook and Myspace these sites are designed for users aged 13 a...