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Online Safety

At The Hyde School, we understand that children use the internet for learning, playing, and connecting with friends. We want to help families support safe and responsible online use. This page offers guidance, tips, and resources to keep your child safe online.

Understanding Online Safety

Today’s pupils are growing up in an increasingly complex world, living their lives on and offline. This presents many exciting opportunities – but also challenges.

What Are Some of the Risks to Online Safety for Children?

There are a range of potential harms that come with using the internet. Categories include:

1. Content
Being exposed to illegal, inappropriate, or harmful content. For example: fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, anti-Semitism, radicalisation, and extremism.

2. Contact
Being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users. For example: peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising, and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit them.

3. Conduct
Online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm. For example: making, sending, and receiving explicit images, sharing other explicit images, and bullying.

4. Commerce
Risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing, and financial scams.

Key Online Safety Tips for Families

1. Set Age-Appropriate Boundaries

  • Use parental controls on devices and apps.

  • Agree on daily screen time limits.

  • Encourage devices to be used in communal areas, not bedrooms.

2. Talk Openly About Online Safety

  • Encourage your child to share if something worries them online.

  • Discuss online behaviour, privacy, and respect for others.

  • Explain why personal information should never be shared.

3. Safe Social Media and Apps

  • Check age ratings before your child uses apps or games.

  • Teach them how to block or report strangers or inappropriate content.

  • Remind children that not everything online is true or safe.

4. Protect Personal Information

  • Use strong passwords and never share them.

  • Teach your child to avoid sharing full name, address, or school details online.

  • Keep private photos and videos secure.

5. Online Bullying (Cyberbullying)

  • Encourage children to report bullying to a trusted adult.

  • Keep evidence of bullying (screenshots) if needed.

  • Contact the school if cyberbullying happens involving classmates.

Resources for Families

Report Concerns to CEOP

If you are worried about your child’s safety online or want to report something inappropriate, you can visit the CEOP Safety Centre and make a report directly.

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If you have questions or concerns about your child’s online safety, please contact: Nisha
 

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