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

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/helpandadvice/parentsandcarers/safesurfing
/socialnetworkingsites_wdn42181.html

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/