Internet Safety Week
06 February 2018
Today is internet safety day. A day that cannot be overlooked in the ever-growing world of technology and social media. Internet Safety Day has been put together to encourage adults to educate children on the importance of staying safe online. It’s also about how parents and adults can use the internet responsibly themselves, that’s why this year’s theme is: ‘Create, Connect and Share Respect: a better internet starts with you’.
The internet allows us to do many great things such as keeping in touch with family and friends, access information easily and quickly, read news stories, and keep up to date with your favourite celebrities. However, the internet can also be a very dangerous place with people posing to be someone they’re not, and the information we post on social media being accessible to anyone. For that reason, we have to step up our game with staying safe and sensible online.
Here at Dudley Lodge, we’re doing all we can to take part in Internet Safety Awareness Day.
What are we doing to help?
This week we are holding group sessions with our parents and teaching them about how they can protect themselves and their children online. Some of the topics we are covering include:
- Learning what grooming is and how to spot the signs it is happening to someone
- The dangers and consequences of sexting
- Online radicalisation
- How to teach your children the importance of being safe online
- Using parental controls
- The correct use of social media
As well as our parent groups, our Protecting Me Protecting You programme incorporates online advice and warnings regarding E-safety. The programme includes our acronym ‘SMART’:
S – stay Safe
M – Do not Meet up
A – Accepting Files
R – Reliable?
T – Tell someone
As well as encouraging children to identify their ‘safe’ people, who they can talk to if they are worried or unsure about something they see online.
To find out more about you can help make the internet a better place head to: https://www.saferinternetday.org/
For further information about our protecting me protecting you programme visit:
https://www.saferinternetday.org/ or call 02476 502 800
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