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Internet Safety - Protect Your Child Online

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Would you let any of these people into your home to talk to your child?To keep parents in the know about internet safety, West Mercia Police has launched an e-safety campaign to let you know how you can protect your child online and how they can protect themselves.

As parents, we can't hope to know what our children are up to every minute of every day, but it's our responsibility to ensure they understand how to stay safe online and why it's so important (click here to watch video).

If you and your children understand the risks and can make sensible and informed choices online, they can get the best out of the internet and stay safe while doing so - especially from those people who might seek them out to harm them.

 

Keep In The Know About E-Safety

Keep in the know about e-safety and follow the 5Ps for parents. 

  1. Positive - Stay positive about social networking sites. Strike a balance between educating children to behave safely and trusting them to get on with it.
  2. Privacy - Make sure children know how to use privacy settings. Explain the importance of keeping information private and not sharing everything with everyone. Check they know all their online friends. If they don't, delete them.
  3. Photos - Check that any photos posted are suitable. Photos can easily be copied, changed or circulated. They can potentially stay online forever.
  4. Postings - Establish ground rules about what is and isn't acceptable to say - about themselves and others.
  5. Parents  - Encourage children to tell you about inappropriate contact that makes them feel uncomfortable. Offensive images or messages can be reported to the police via the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre website: www.ceop.gov.uk/reportabuse

 

Teach Your Children The SMART Rules!

The SMART rules have been written especially for children to remind them how to stay safe online. You can help by going through these rules with your children to ensure they understand them. 

Sign Up For More Crime Prevention Advice

Want to receive updates on our campaigns, receive e-safety information and crime prevention advice on a regular basis, straight to your email inbox? Then sign up for our newsletter today!

The free newsletter will be mailed direct to you every quarter, with occasional extra updates if there's a particular type of crime we need to update you about.

Simply go to www.westmerciabulletin.org.uk and fill in the form to get signed up - why not also spread the word among your friends?

As a bonus, when you sign up you can get a free e-safety guide to download, print out and keep by your computer as a handy reminder of how to keep safe online.

Useful E-Safety Links

Find out more about internet safety on the following websites:


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