E-SAFETY

• Keep virus and firewall software up to-date.  

• Remember that passwords should be kept private and not shared with others.  

• Involve everyone and agree on your family guidelines and rules.

• Regularly discuss online safety and go online with your children.  Communication is the key to ‘staying safe’ online. 

• Critically view all content as some websites are not what they appear 

• Keep the computer in a communal area of the house, where it's easier to monitor what your children are viewing. 

• Do not let children have webcams, or similar, in their bedroom.   

• Talk to your children about why they should not to give out their personal details.

• Time spent online should be monitored to help prevent obsessive use of the internet. 

Children need to follow a range of activities many of which will be offline.   Encourage your children, and in fact all family members, to tell you if they feel uncomfortable, upset or threatened by anything they see online. 

Have proportionate responses if the family guidelines are not followed.