E-safety
At South Wolds we value the importance of educating our students in staying safe online.
If you are worried about online sexual abuse or the way someone has been communicating online, let CEOP know: CEOP Safety Centre
Please click on the images below for information about the main social networks, more information about staying safer online and to find out about our SHARP reporting system. (You can access our SHARP system anywhere on the website by clicking the speech bubbles on the sidebar.)
Parent Info is a free service that shares articles, tips, expert advice and resources designed to help parents keep up with what their children are doing on-line. Parent Info is a collaboration between CEOP and Parent Zone.
For additional information and guides for any additional e-safety, please visit the UK Safer Internet Centre and National Online Safety.
A very useful parent website is https://parentsafe.lgfl.net/ which contains information and support with "top tips for parents", safe controls & settings, monitoring children online, screentime and talking to children about their online world.
Report Harmful Content
Find out how to report harmful content on all major social media platforms here.
The Report Harmful Content button below is an asset of SWGfL, a charity working internationally to ensure all benefit from technology, free from harm.
The button has been developed to offer anyone living in the UK a simple and convenient mechanism for gaining access to reporting routes for commonly used social networking sites, gaming platforms, apps and streaming services alongside trusted online safety advice, help and support. It also provides access to an online mechanism for reporting online harm to the RHC service for those over the age of 13 where an initial report has been made to industry but no action has been taken. RHC will review content in line with a sites' community standards and act in a mediatory capacity where content goes against these.
Children under 13 years of age are encouraged to tell an adult that they trust about what has happened and to ask for their help in reporting this going through our how we can help resource together.
RHC also have advice and links to reporting routes for other online harms people may come across or face, such as impersonation, privacy violations and intimate image abuse.
The RHC button provides a gateway to the RHC reporting pages, an area of the RHC website offering:
- links to reporting routes on commonly used sites for 8 types of online harm
- help, advice and support on what to do if experiencing or witnessing harm online
- signposting to industry partners reporting forms and the ability to reportlegal but harmful content directly to RHC for further investigation
Reporting to RHC
Reports can be made 24/7 through the online reporting forms and helpline practitioners will review and respond to reports within 72 hours between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday.
Reports can be made to RHC by anyone over the age of 13. SWGfL operates 3 helplines and to be sure you're getting the right support take a look at the Helpline flowchart to find out who can best support you.
