Audience

Teachers and school staff

27 March 2024 UK SIC

Impersonation and Scamming Alerts Introduced on Instagram

Instagram has rolled out a new feature aimed at enhancing user awareness regarding potential suspicious activities and impersonation attempts.

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.

26 March 2024 UK SIC

Join the Childnet Youth Advisory board to make a difference online

Want to know more about the Youth Advisory Board and what you have to do to get involved - just…

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…

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.

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

14 February 2024 UK SIC

New Instagram Privacy and Safety Checklist

The Instagram Privacy and Safety Checklist offers easy and straightforward guidance to help protect your profile.

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…