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Free Online Safety Events Return Virtually
Our partners at SWGfL have now brought Online Safety Lives onto virtual platforms. Book your free session today!
Looking out for friends online this World Mental Health Day
This World Mental Health Day (10th October 2020) we have created a list of what to do if you are…
Government says new online harms legislation is expected to be ready next year
MPs have called for guarantees on funding to make the internet a safer place as the Government says new online…
Project Evolve – The Future of Digital Education
Ken Corish, the Online Safety Director at SWGfL as well as the creator of ProjectEVOLVE talks about how essential this digital…
‘Disturbing’ rise in videos of children who have been groomed into filming their own abuse
Videos and images where children have been manipulated into recording their own abuse now make up nearly half of all…
Safer Internet Day 2021 Supporters
See what people across the UK are doing to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2021!
Safer Internet Day 2021 Supporters registration now open!
Schools and organisations are now able to register as a Safer Internet Day Supporter to share what they are doing for the day!
New data: thousands of schools need more help to tackle online safety effectively
Experts say new data indicates schools need more support to address online safety issues at a time where young people…
Hundreds of individual victims in videos of “self-generated” child sexual abuse in one week
In one week alone, analysts saw almost 700 individual girls being exploited and coerced into filming their own abuse. This…
Delete or Deactivate – What to do with your old accounts (updated for 2020)
This blog gives site specific guidance about how to deactivate or delete your accounts, and what these options mean.
SWGfL Release new Netflix Parental Control Checklist
Our partners at SWGfL have added a brand new checklist to their resources. This time they’ve worked with Netflix to…
Call for a New Taskforce at the IWF
The IWF is looking for six Image Classification Assessors and a Quality Assurance Officer to help them protect children in…