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Online Safety for Parents CEOP Welcome to … Online Safety What children are for Parents taught about Education Child Protection Ltd. Online Safety Handouts Stay in touch will be sent Tweet us to school @ECP_LTD 1 2 www.ceop.police.uk www.thinkuknow.co.uk Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command CEOP Reporting mechanism for CHILDREN… 3 4 When should I report to CEOP? Someone … Someone… online is putting I don't know is Soon to pressure on me asking me to say 4-7 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 face-to-face & I keeps trying to feel pressured talk to me by them privately 5 6 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 1 When should I report to CEOP? Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (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 about sex and it & someone has made me feel turned aggressive uncomfortable towards me 7 8 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 nasty messages, so even if they 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 9 10 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. 11 12 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 2 Digital Resilience Digital resilience refers to the Latest trends of emotional resources needed to: what children are doing online 1.Understand 2. Know what 3. Learn 4. Recover when you are to do to seek from when things at risk online help experience go wrong 13 14 COMPUTER 70% of British parents ignore GAMES age-ratings on games (Techradar) 15 16 Biggest computer game in the world right now is…. Very strong violence FrequentA spotlight strong/very on strongthe game language Strong portrayal of sexual activity ScenesGrand of strong Theft sexual Auto violence Strong horror What type of contentStrong blood will and be gore included in this Real sex Druggame? taking Discriminatory language or behaviour 200 million+ downloads 17 18 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 3 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 19 20 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. 21 22 The next one in-line, thought that Gaming Buzzwords … it could maybe overtake Fortnite… 1337 Respawn Represents letters LEET When a character Which means ‘Elite’ level reappears after being killed Noob PWN Newbie to the game To ‘own’ someone in a (insult) n00b / Noobie game, or render them / Newb helpless Above are some of the most commonly used PEGI RATING OF 16 phrases by avid gamers 23 24 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 4 Young People & Gambling Fraudsters targeting online gamers – Young people believe they might get free V-Bucks or Battle Passes Of 2,865 11-16 year-olds… 14% had spent their own money on gambling seven days prior to completing the survey In the past week, had 6% had gambled online on average spent using a parent account £16 on gambling Source: Gambling Commission Date: 21 November 2018 25 26 Generation Internet…. 21% 3-4s have their own tablet 24% 8-11 have a social media account 87% 12-15 have a social media account Average number of ‘likes’ to make a child feel happy - SOCIAL MEDIA 52 Did you know… 27 28 Top Trending… Top Trending… Tik Tok Instagram WhatsApp TikTok is a Instagram is Snapchat global video a picture and WhatsApp is an instant community video sharing Snapchat lets messaging app, powered by app. Users can you send a which lets you music. Whether post content photo or short send instant it’s dance, free- and use style or video to your hashtags to messages, performance, friends. The share images and creators are ‘snap’ appears on experiences or videos to encouraged to screen for a memories with friends. let their matter of an online imagination run seconds before community. wild. disappearing. 29 30 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 5 Live Streaming Apps… Top Trending… Police say abusers thrive on the immediacy Discord these live platforms offer - WhatsApp Discord is the WhatsApp is an only cross- Targeting children with instant Houseparty Twitch platform voice messaging app, and text chat tricks which lets you A group video Twitch is a live app designed send instant chat app. When video game specifically for dares messages, you and your website. You can gamers. It is Threats images and friends are in the watch playbacks perfect for chatting with videos to app at the same of games being team member friends. time, you’ll see played by other to manipulate them into each other people. You can and seeing who instantly. One also live stream is playing online nudity or sexual tap and you're in. your own games. acts 31 32 http://parents-guide.yubo.live/ Most Concerning… Kik Kik is an instant messaging app which lets you share messages, photos, games and news, or organise events. 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… 33 34 Most Concerning… More than 30 cases of child rape have Secret been investigated by Kik police, plus a further Calculator Kik is an Monkey 60 instances of instant Yubo Calculator hides messaging app Yubo allows you Talk to photos, contacts child sex offences - Send Safe and videos which lets you to you meet Strangers! behind a including grooming, share new people Message- Self Facetime messages, Destructing strangers from calculator. If kidnapping and violent around the you put in a photos, world. Make new anywhere. Send Safe is a passcode it will assault - through games and friends, chat and free service, Monkey stories open up a news, or meet new online dating apps which allows you can be created private area. organise people! Right to to send a and viewed by Able to browse events. like, left to pass! message or photo tapping the internet without The youngest victim Just like the history being Tinder…. if two via popular tree. ‘Send a apps, …that saved. was eight years old people like each friend request others pictures Disappears if you’re they can chat after seen feeling their privately! once. vibe’. 35 36 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 6 Advice for parents on Apps… Using social networking sites, it is so important that we use privacy settings to keep ourselves, and our information, safe! So how do we do it…? 37 38 Menu Button 39 40 41 42 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 7 43 44 VR Not just Oculus online but - Gloves - physical feeling of safety tendons & muscles Telly Disney presence - creating confusion THE FUTURE… ‘Force Jacket’ between Physically feel online & – could cause offline bruising… 45 46 The issues and dangers children face online GROOMING 47 48 All rights reserved - Education Child Protection LTD 2019 8 Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP) Online grooming: The five stages How do offenders engage youngsters? Friendship – by using the sites that they use...
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