Information, Advice & Guidance 

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Below you will find useful information, advice and guidance regarding online safety.  

Policy Paper, Guidance & Regulation

Online Safety Bill, Remaining Stages, House of Commons, 5 December 2022.

Published: 05.12.22
By: Local Government Association 

​Challenging victim blaming language and behaviours when dealing with the online experiences of children and young people 

Published: 06.10.22
By: UK Council for Internet Safety 

Policy Paper -
Online Safety Bill:  Factsheet 

Published: 19.04.22
By: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. 

Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill

Published: 14.12.21.
By: Parliament

Harmful online challenges and online hoaxes.
Advice for schools and colleges to support their approach to harmful online challenges and online hoaxes. 

​Published: 12.05.21
By: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Regulation -  Draft Online Safety Bill.
The draft online safety bill establishes a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online.

Published: 12.02.21
By: DFE

Sharing nudes and semi-nudes: advice for education settings working with children and young people. Guidance on responding to incidents and safeguarding children and young people. 

Published: 23.12.20
By: UK Council for Internet Safety 

Online Harms White Paper: Full Government Response to Consultation.

Published: 15.12.20
By: Home Office 

​The UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) Online Safety Audit Tool helps mentors of trainee teachers and early career teachers induct mentees and provide ongoing support, development and monitoring.

Published: 10.08.20
By: UK Council for Internet Safety

Policy Paper - 
Digital Resilience Framework. A framework and tool for organisations, policymakers, schools and companies to use to embed digital resilience thinking into products, education and services. 

Published: 12.09.19
By: UK Council for Internet Safety 

Teaching Online Safety in Schools. Guidance supporting schools to teach pupils how to stay safe online when studying new and existing subjects.

Published: 26.06.19
By: DFE

​Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: Online Safety considerations. Guidance to help those who work in early years settings consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online.

Published: UK Council for Internet Safety 
By: 04.02.19

Guidance: Education for a connected world.
A framework to equip children and young people for digital life. 

Published: 23.02.18
By: UK Council for Internet Safety 

Online Safety in schools and colleges: questions for governing board.
Guidance for senior leaders on monitoring the provision of online safety education in school and college. 

Published: 02.11.16
By: UK Council for Internet Safety 
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Information, Advice & Toolkits

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NSPCC Parliamentary Briefing: The importance of the Online Safety Bill, October 2022.

Published: October 2022
By: NSPCC

Information, Advice & Reporting - 
Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse. StopNCII.org is a free tool designed to support victims of Non-Consensual Intimate Image (NCII) abuse for OVER 18's. TikTok and Bumble Inc. have joined Facebook and Instagram as industry partners of StopNCII.org to prevent the sharing of non-consensual intimate images online. 

​Published: 01.12.22
By: StopNCII.org 

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Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2022

Published: 30.03.2022
By: Ofcom 

Information, Advice & Reporting - 
Report Remove Toolkit. Remove a nude image shared online.

Published: 2021
By: Childline & IWF 

Information, Advice & Reporting-
CEOP is a law enforcement agency and is here to keep children and young people safe from sexual exploitation and abuse. 

Published: Unknown
By: CEOP

Information, Advice & Reporting - 
The Professionals Online Safety Helpline (POSH) is a unique service for all professionals working with children and young people in the UK with any online safety issues. 

Published: Unknown
By: POSH

Information, Advice & Reporting -
You can anonymously & confidentially report: child sexual abuse content; non-photographic child sexual abuse images.

Published: Unknown
By: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

Information, Advice & Reporting - 
NSPCC offers further information for keeping children safe online.

Published: Unknown
​By: NSPCC 

Information & Advice - 
Advice for professionals working with LGBTQ+ young people aged 7-18.
The LGBTQ+ Index of Harms is broken down into the strands from the Education for a Connected World Framework. Each strand of the framework is summarised into at least one likely harm.

Published: Unknown
By: Internet Matters 

​Information - 
Delivering a Duty of Care. An assessment of the governments proposals against the NSPCC's six tests for the Online Safety Bill.

Published: March 2021
By: NSPCC

Information-
IWF Annual Report 2021

Published: 2021
By: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

Information & Advice - 
Gurls Out Loud Campaign.
A campaign to keep girls safe from creeps online. 

Published: 2021
By: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

​Information & Advice - 
TALK checklist to help keep your child safe online. 

Published: 2021
By: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

Information - 
IWF Annual Report 2020

Published: 2020
By: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

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The Slang Dictionary 

Published: 2020
By: The Children's Society