Online Safety (eSafety)

The Click CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) button is an asset of the National Crime Agency’s CEOP Command. The CEOP Command works to protect children from the harm of sexual abuse and exploitation both online and offline.

It provides access to trusted online safety advice, help and support, and is an online mechanism for reporting known or suspected child sexual exploitation or child sexual abuse directly to CEOP.

Online and Your Child

What we do

At Lime Tree Primary Academy we are fully committed to the safeguarding of our pupils and Online Safety is of paramount importance.  With the ongoing support of you as parents, we aim to educate our children to make the right decisions to keep themselves safe online.  Throughout the year we offer a range of support to parents on the subject of Online Safety through talks, information on our website and general updates. Online Safety is an intrinsic part of our computing lessons and at any time the children access technology.

What can parents and guardians do?

1. Set up parental controls
   You can find out how to set up parental controls through your web provider here.
2. Encourage your child to use ‘Safe Search’ search engines. All the links below have stronger restrictions.
   www.safesearchkids.com
   www.kidsclick.orgThere is also an educational version of YouTube that can be accessed on
   www.youtube.com/education
3. Know and understand which apps your child is using.
   There are always new apps for children to play games and communicate. You can find out important information about the apps such as their privacy settings, the type of content and which age groups they are suitable for.
   www.net-aware.org.ukThe following information and websites may also offer further support to parents and carers.The NSPCC have teamed up with O2 www.o2.co.uk/help/online-safety  to help keep children safe when they’re using the internet, social networks, apps, games and more.
   nspcc.org.uk/onlinesafety

Online gaming

Alan Mackenzie, Optimus Education, examines the research on the effects of violent video games and suggests what schools and parents can do to control behavioural changes

Keeping children safe whilst playing

Useful links