Audience

Educators

26 March 2024 UK SIC

Professionals Online Safety Helpline Publishes Online Reputation Guidance

The Professionals Online Safety Helpline has released new guidance to support schools with online reputation concerns.

22 March 2024 UK SIC

Children are using AI to create nudes, warns new report from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

A report from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) warns that children are using AI apps designed to…

22 March 2024 UK SIC

Sextortion report of boys increase as IWF announces record amount of cases

The Internet Watch Foundation has reported a heartbreaking eightfold increase in the number of sextortion cases.

19 March 2024 UK SIC

SWGfL Launches ProjectEVOLVE EDU – Online Training for Educators

ProjectEVOLVE EDU is a new professional development platform focusing on digital literacy and online safety for educators.

15 March 2024 UK SIC

How offenders abuse privacy apps – latest podcast episode from the IWF

Predators are using end-to-end encrypted messaging apps to contact children and distribute criminal material, warns new research.

11 March 2024 UK SIC

2024 Appropriate filtering and monitoring definitions published for public consultation

The UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) has published a draft of its 'appropriate' filtering and monitoring definitions for 2024 for…

7 March 2024 Beverley Thornton

Online Safety Clinics – New Events

SWGfL and the UK Safer Internet Centre have announced a series of new Online Safety Clinics covering a range of…

29 February 2024 UK SIC

IWF Hotline removes record amount of child sexual abuse depicting under 10s

Younger children are increasingly being groomed and coerced by predators into performing sexually online, warns the global hotline IWF.

20 February 2024 UK SIC

UK Safer Internet Centre Announces Accredited Filtering Systems for UK Schools and Colleges

Lightspeed Systems, Netsweeper and Smoothwall are the first filtering systems to be accredited under the new filtering accreditation scheme.

15 February 2024 UK SIC

Online Safety Live – New 2024 Events

Book your free place for our online safety live sessions taking place across February and March

12 February 2024 UK SIC

How the UK Safer Internet Centre Celebrated Safer Internet Day in Liverpool!

The UK Safer Internet Centre team were in Liverpool to celebrate Safer Internet Day. Find out what happened in this…

1 February 2024 UK SIC

Safer Internet Day: Advice from the Professionals Online Safety Helpline

The Professionals Online Safety Helpline is encouraging professionals to start discussions with children and young people about what they like…