UK Sexting skyrockets amongst under 16’s on Smartphones over last 2 years

UK Labour party want to make PHSE course’s mandatory for all over the age of 11. The current courses have not been updated since 2000 some 7 years before the launch of the iPhone.  Labour’s shadow Education Eecretary Lucy Powell promises to act as soon Labour is returned to Government and is urging the current Government to act long beforehand. OFSTED regards most of the current teaching and guidance as ‘not good’ and some of it woefully outdated. BeSecureOnline.co.uk explains.

Parental Control Software – Internet Safety for Kids and Teens

Protect your entire family with F-Secure SAFE – Internet safety for kids and teens.

You can take control of what your family and others see online when browsing to make sure people get the best from the internet. And control when and for long people use the internet. Research shows teenage boys can spending 8 hours a day online – time to take control. 

 

Review of Safety Information of Tinder – Internet Safety Series

Welcome to the first in a new series of blog posts here on BeSecureOnline. In this series we take a comprehensive review of the user safety information provided by social networking sites. In this first instalment of the series we turn our attention to Tinder.

Sexting is a bigger issue than Obesity, Bullying & Drugs in UK Schools

The 2016 UK NSPCC/Office of the Children’s Commissioner England study found that just over one in ten boys and girls (13%) had taken topless pictures of themselves (around one in four of those were girls) and 3% had taken full length naked pictures. 55% of the children had shared the images with others. What’s more frightening is that 31% of this group had also shared their image with someone that they did not know.