Safety Software
What's out there to help you?
The online help can be divided into three main categories
- Information - hints and tips
- Problems - what to do and where to go
- Additional filtering and blocking software
Information - Hints & Tips
Keeping Children Safe Online
The official Department for Education and Employment guide to internet safety http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre – Internet Safety – CEOP
Visit Thinkuknow.co.uk — the CEOP Centre's online safety centre providing advice and tips for children and adults of all ages.
Education
European Schoolsnet contains links to various European governments' educational websites at http://www.en.eun.org
NSPCC Help and Advice Safety tips for parents and carers on Social Networking and User Interactive Sites
Where to go to report problems
Illegal material
The Internet Watch Foundation is run by the UK Internet industry, and provides a hotline for people to report material which they think is illegal. Further details can be found at http://www.iwf.org.uk/
Additional filtering and blocking software
Filtering software
Information about various different systems is available at http://www.getnetwise.org/tools/