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Online Safety Training GAMING Welcome to … Online Safety Content / Contact / Conduct Content: Training Being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or Education Child Protection Ltd. Contact: harmful material Being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users Conduct: Personal online behaviour that Stay in touch increases the Handouts likelihood of harm will be sent Tweet us to school @ECP_LTD 1 2 Biggest computer game in the world right now is…. GAMING 250 million+ downloads 3 4 So what is it…? National Crime Agency… Fortnite is an online shooter …has warned Fortnite is putting that starts with 100 players and children at risk from online leaves one winner standing. paedophiles due to the chat facility. Battle Royale sees 100 players parachute onto an island, and Although the game itself seems pretty the last player alive wins. Each harmless, players can talk and type game lasts about 20 minutes whatever they want to each other, and bad language is rampant. It has a PEGI rating of 12, for March 2018, a mother from Merseyside ‘frequent scenes told how she intervened when her of mild violence’ 12-year-old son was offered £50 to The game is violent — it is a battle to the death, perform “sex acts” while playing the after all — but the violence is rather cartoon-like game by a man grooming him online. – it isn't bloody or particularly gory 5 6 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 1 Advice for parents on Fortnite… Children hooked on addictive video games like Be aware that Monitor who your Fortnite will be able to child is talking to – seek treatment on the there is mild NHS, after video gaming is check the violence – PEGI classified as a medical rating of 12 communication disorder by the World settings Health Organisation (WHO). Set up passwords on The move comes amid Set up time limits increasing evidence of bank cards – lots of young players suffering on how long they game purchase psychological distress and options spend playing… family breakdown as a result of their addiction. 7 8 The next one in-line, thought that July 2019…Maybe some bad news for it could maybe overtake Fortnite… parents… 15 year old from London won nearly a million pounds after coming second alongside his teammate in the Fortnite World Cup finals PEGI RATING OF 16 9 10 Gaming Buzzwords … Young People & Gambling Respawn 1337 Of 2,865 11-16 year-olds… Represents letters LEET When a character Which means ‘Elite’ level reappears after being killed 14% had spent their own money on gambling Noob PWN seven days prior to completing the survey Newbie to the game To ‘own’ someone in a (insult) n00b / Noobie game, or render them In the past week, had / Newb helpless 6% had gambled online on average spent using a parent account Above are some of the most commonly used £16 on gambling phrases by avid gamers Source: Gambling Commission Date: 21 November 2018 11 12 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 2 Fraudsters targeting online gamers – Young people believe they might get free V-Bucks or Battle Passes APPS 13 14 Generation Internet…. Top Trending… 21% 3-4s have their own tablet Tik Tok Instagram TikTok is a Instagram is Snapchat 24% 8-11 have a social media account global video a picture and community 87% 12-15 have a social media account Snapchat lets video sharing powered by app. Users can music. Whether you send a photo or short post content it’s dance, free- and use style or video to your hashtags to Average number of ‘likes’ to make performance, friends. The share creators are ‘snap’ appears on experiences or a child feel happy - encouraged to screen for a memories with 52 let their matter of an online imagination run seconds before community. wild. disappearing. Did you know… 15 16 Top Trending… Top Trending… Discord WhatsApp WhatsApp Discord is the WhatsApp is an WhatsApp is an YouTube Twitch only cross- instant instant Houseparty platform voice messaging app, messaging app, YouTube lets Twitch is a live and text chat which lets you which lets you you enjoy the A group video video game app designed videos and send instant send instant chat app. When website. You can specifically for music you messages, messages, you and your watch playbacks gamers. It is love. Upload images and images and friends are in the of games being perfect for original app at the same played by other chatting with videos to videos to content, and time, you’ll see people. You can team member friends. friends. share it all each other also live stream and seeing who with friends, instantly. One your own games. is playing online family, and tap and you're in. the world. 17 18 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 3 Most Concerning… Became the most downloaded iPhone app in the UK and US Kik just a week after its release Kik is an instant Previous anonymous online messaging app Q&A services have been which lets you share blighted by abuse and bullying messages, photos, The app works by letting games and news, or people post a graphic inviting organise others to "send me anonymous events. messages", which is superimposed over a photo Home Secretary – Sajid Javid has warned that he ‘will not be afraid to take action’ against tech giants if they do not help tackle child sexual abuse online… 19 20 Most Concerning… Advice for parents on Apps… Secret Kik Calculator Kik is an instant Calculator hides messaging app Omegle photos, contacts which lets you YOLO Send Safe and videos Message- Self Talk to behind a share Yolo allows messages, Destructing Strangers! calculator. If you to ask Omegle you put in a photos, anonymous Send Safe is a connects you passcode it will games and questions to free service, randomly to open up a news, or other users. which allows you another person private area. organise You can to send a who's on the Able to browse events. connect Yolo message or photo site, and lets internet without with Snapchat via popular you talk to the history being apps, …that them in a one- saved. Disappears to-one video after seen chat. once. 21 22 Using social networking sites, it is so important that we use Menu privacy settings Button to keep ourselves, and our information, safe! So how do we do it…? 23 24 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 4 25 26 27 28 29 30 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 5 www.ceop.police.uk www.thinkuknow.co.uk Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command CEOP Reporting mechanism for CHILDREN… 31 32 www.thinkuknow.co.uk When should I report to CEOP? Someone … Someone… online is putting I don't know is pressure on me asking me to to do things I live-stream & don't want to do things I do don't want to do Someone… online keeps Someone… asking me to I met in an meet them online game keeps trying to Parents face-to-face & I feel pressured talk to me Education Child Protection Ltd. by them privately 33 34 When should I report to CEOP? Someone … I shared a online has asked nude image me to send with someone them nude online and images they are threatening me I did something Someone… that I was online was embarrassed talking to me about on webcam EDUCATING about sex and it & someone has made me feel turned aggressive uncomfortable towards me CHILDREN 35 36 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 6 Recommendations Recommendations for schools are: for schools are: Creating a culture that incorporates Proactively engage the principles of staff, pupils and online safety across parents/carers all elements of school life 37 38 Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP) What areas are to be covered…? Online Abuse Content Challenges Live Inciting Fake Streaming Content Profiles Security Pornography Grooming 39 40 Keeping ourselves safe… What do CEOP say...? Tell Take a Never Some things Always talk to someone screen shot arrange to on the of any nasty meet up someone you trust if you're internet messages – and with being don't delete the aren’t real if something bullied on someone message until you you've met or are the internet have done this. serious happens Taking a screen online misleading (for example, shot saves the online getting nasty even if they nasty messages, so Be aware of messages or seem nice, or that you can show the ‘Click Here emails) you think you them to people to Win’! know them who can help you 41 42 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 7 What do CEOP say...? Advice for young people… Be aware of what you Turn your privacy settings up share… to the highest level Never give out personal information on your social networking your personal sites information on Only post things that you Remember advertising would be happy with your the internet you location is family seeing dangerous If something happens, tell someone – Home / School / ChildLine / CEOP Education Child Protection Ltd. 43 44 Digital Resilience Digital resilience refers to the emotional resources needed to: 1.Understand 2. Know what 3. Learn 4. Recover when you are to do to seek from when things GROOMING at risk online help experience go wrong 45 46 Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP) Online grooming: The five stages How do offenders engage youngsters? Friendship – by using the sites that they use.... Flattering a child into talking in a private chatroom/game where Often posing as they will be isolated a child of the same age / gender.
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