Safer Internet Day 2027: Reflect on tech

Safer Internet Day returns on 9 February 2027, marking 20 years of the UK’s Safer Internet Day celebrations. This year, we’re inviting everyone to ‘Reflect on tech: exploring digital wellbeing and our relationship with technology.’
 
Technology is a huge part of everyday life. From social media and gaming to messaging, streaming and learning, being online can bring connection, creativity and opportunity. But as concerns about the impact of technology on children and young people’s wellbeing continue to grow, it’s also important to pause and ask: what does a healthy relationship with technology look like?
 
Safer Internet Day 2027 is an opportunity for young people, families, schools, organisations, government and the technology industry to reflect on how technology affects our lives, our mood and our wellbeing. We’ll explore the pressures and influences we can experience online, as well as practical ways to make the most of our time with technology.
 
With Safer Internet Day taking place in the important months leading up to new Government restrictions, including a ban on social media accounts for under-16s, this year provides a particularly important opportunity for conversation, education and listening to young people’s voices. 

Schools and organisations can sign up as Safer Internet Day 2027 supporters and join thousands of others across the UK in helping young people develop positive and informed relationships with technology. If you don’t know your plans yet then don’t worry – you can still register by sharing your logo and organisation name.

We’ll also be sharing free educational resources in November, designed to help schools, families and organisations explore this year’s theme and start meaningful conversations with children and young people.
 
By understanding our relationship with technology and exploring digital wellbeing together, we can take important steps towards building a safer and better internet for everyone.

Under a global theme of ‘Together for a better internet‘, the UK Safer Internet Centre is responsible for coordinating Safer Internet Day actions in the UK. Each year, the celebration sees thousands of organisations get involved to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. 

Over the years, Safer Internet Day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar. Starting as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 and taken up by the Insafe network as one of its earliest actions in 2005, Safer Internet Day has grown beyond its traditional geographic zone and is now celebrated worldwide.

For more information about Safer Internet Day worldwide, take a look at the Better Internet for Kids website.