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Online safety advice

More and more pre-schoolers are using their parents’ computers, smartphones or tablets to play games, use apps, and watch their favourite TV shows. There are simple things you can do to make sure they’re using the internet safely.

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Principles for providers of children’s residential care
These 9 principles outline best practice for supporting online safety for children in residential care.
These 9 principles outline best practice for ...
Parental controls
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TalkTalk HomeSafe guide
Learn how to manage your parental control network settings on the TalkTalk network with our step-by-step how-to guide.
Learn how to manage your parental control ...
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Fitbit fitness tracker
Learn how to set up a Family Account and child's account on Fitbit with this step-by-step guide.
Learn how to set up a Family ...
Apps & Platforms
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How to choose apps for kids during the school holidays
Guidance on choosing new apps and games for children to support wellbeing, interests and balanced screen time.
Guidance on choosing new apps and games ...
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ChromeOS safety guide
Get step-by-step guidance on setting Chromebooks up for safety with this parental controls guide to ChromeOS.
Get step-by-step guidance on setting Chromebooks up ...
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macOS Ventura 13
Get step-by-step guidance on the safety settings for macOS Ventura 13.
Get step-by-step guidance on the safety settings ...
Parental controls
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Electronic Arts app parental controls guide
Manage who your child can talk to, what content they can access and more with Electronic Arts app parental control options.
Manage who your child can talk to, ...
Research
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Research: Supporting educators on issues of online safety
This report focuses on the importance of frontline services which directly support families: schools. Most children in England spend more than 30 hours at school per week. Some families look to teachers as a source of support in many aspects of life, educational and noneducational – including online life.
This report focuses on the importance of ...
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