Today, the Department for Education has released its report from the consultation it carried out over the last few months into internet parental controls. http://www.education.gov.uk/a00218633/parental-internet-controls-consultation The consultation was led by Department of Education Ministers as well as Home office ministers who chair the UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) Executive...

New research lifts the lid on ‘sexting’ attitudes and practices amongst teenagers A new study conducted by UK Safer Internet Centre and Plymouth University and supported by the NSPCC reveals new concerns and trends in ‘sexting’ amongst teenagers. The qualitative study engaged with 120 13-14 year olds and 30 10-11 year olds. The study concluded that: Sexting is considered almost routine for many...

The UKCCIS Evidence Group has today launched two new Research Highlights, which summarise the findings from The European Online Grooming Project. This project sought to describe the behaviour of both offenders who groom and young people who are ‘groomed’, with the two phases of the project summarised in two reports: Young People’s Online Behaviour : Findings from the European Online Grooming...

Three new Research Highlights from the UK Council for Child Internet Safety’s Evidence Group explore children’s use of new media and the internet, and how parents engage with and mediate their children’s online activities. Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes - Focus on Parental Controls Ofcom (Oct 2012) Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes - Take Up and Use Ofcom (Oct 2012)...

This week, 19th – 23rd November is anti-bullying week and this year's Anti-Bullying Week theme is 'We're Better Without Bullying' Research released today by the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) to mark the start of the Anti-Bullying Week, highlights how bullying can hold children back from achieving their full potential. Ross Hendry, Chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance says the results of the survey...

This week Childnet is in Baku taking part in the Internet Governance Forum. This is the fourth year running that Childnet has run the youth IGF project and for the first time, the youth panel will be chairing their own workshop This will take place on Wednesday 7th November at 12.30 GMT This workshop is titled " Social media, young people and freedom of expression " and will seek to explore the...

Young people are warned they may lose control over their images and videos once they are uploaded online. This follows a study by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). It shows 88% of the self-generated, sexually explicit online images and videos of young people their analysts encountered had been taken from their original location and uploaded onto other websites. The findings from this study...

22nd - 26th October is G et Safe Online week . The theme for Get Safe Online Week 2012 is ‘Click & Tell’ – where users are encouraged to check out the advice on the GSOL website, pick up some online safety tips and pass them on to friends, family, colleagues, neighbours or even strangers who may benefit from the advice. Tony Neate, CEO of Get Safe Online said: “Online crime can be a threat to...

Did you know that there are just under 8 million people in the UK who are offline, and 14.5 million who don’t have the skills to make the most of all the internet can offer? If you’re one of them, or you know someone who is, Get online week is the perfect opportunity to find a bigger life online! More than 3,000 Get online week events will take place across the country between 15 and 21 October,...

This Safer Internet Day, the UK Safer Internet Centre is giving children and young people the opportunity to share their views about their online rights. We have launched the Safer Internet Day Have your Say survey , which asks children and young people from the UK to consider what they believe will make the internet a better place, also giving them the chance to reflect on their own online...