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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…

26 January 2024 UK SIC

Safer Internet Day Surpasses 1000 Supporters

Over 1000 organisations have already registered their support for Safer Internet Day with supporter numbers growing by the second!

22 January 2024 UK SIC

Meta Announces New Protections to Protect Teens from Harmful Content Online

Meta has announced new content policies to help protect teenagers from viewing harmful content across Facebook and Instagram.

20 December 2023 UK SIC

New guidance released for how to respond to the online sexual harassment of school staff in England

The Professionals Online Safety Helpline has released new guidance to support schools and colleges in England on How to Respond…

27 November 2023 UK SIC

Children must understand risk as UK schools say pupils abusing AI to make sexual imagery of other children

Initial reports show schoolchildren in the UK are now using AI to generate indecent images of other children, with experts…

17 November 2023 UK SIC

Free artificial intelligence lesson plans available from SWGfL

SWGfL has collaborated with the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit to develop educational resources for schools about artificial intelligence.

16 November 2023 UK SIC

Ofcom announces draft codes of practice to protect children online

Ofcom has published its draft codes of practice focusing on addressing illegal material online. Read more in this article