The Internet has become part of the lives of children today whether we like it or not! At Arnewood we try to give students the skills needed to use the internet wisely, while making sure that we have taken necessary precautions to ensure students' safety. As parents, it isn't always possible to provide constant supervision in the same way as is done in school. The following sites give useful information to parents who want to make using the internet safer for their children.
A pdf document giving guidlines for chatting safely online and using mobiles.
A government website that brings together some of the best advice available on the internet
Internet
watch foundation
This pack gives comprehensive advice about safe use of the Internet for parents
and schools.
Safe
surfing with doug
Doug introduces us to ways to encourage safe surfing. The site includes an
interactive comic starring Doug, the popular animated hero of TV and film, who
learns about how to stay safe on the Internet via a series of incidents. At each
stage, you can choose one of two options and Doug will tell you whether you are
right or wrong.
Kidscape
The registered charity committed to keeping children safe from harm or abuse.
Kidscape is the only national children's charity which focuses upon preventative
policies - tactics to use before any abuse takes place.
Safesurf
An organization dedicated to making the Internet safe for children without
censorship. It offers a rating system for Internet pages so the visitor can see
(subject to the site carrying the rating system) the suitability of the page.
Surfwatch
Providers of Internet filtering solutions, with a 90-95% effective rate at
filtering undesirable sights.
Planetgood
Classifies sites into three levels of safe browsing.
Web
site filters
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