A guide for parents and carers on managing children's digital lives

 

Supporting children’s safety is a shared responsibility between families, schools and wider society. For parents and carers, this responsibility has become increasingly complex as children’s lives are now deeply intertwined with the digital world. Many parents face difficult decisions about how to balance protecting children from online harm with enabling access to spaces that are now central to learning, socialising and play.

 

The Children’s Commissioner for England has produced a guide for parents and carers on managing children’s digital lives, designed to demystify some of the issues such as the challenge of managing children’s everyday online habits, what you should and shouldn’t be doing, and the often complicated parental controls on individual social media platforms, to help make talking to your child about them easier. 

An introductory blog on the guide from the Children’s Commissioner can be viewed here: 

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/what-i-wish-my-parents-or-carers-knew-childrens-commissioner-launches-guide-for-parents-and-carers-on-managing-childrens-digital-lives/

The guide, along with an Activity Pack for children, can be accessed here: 

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/what-i-wish-my-parents-or-carers-knew-a-guide-for-parents-and-carers-on-managing-childrens-digital-lives/

This resource along with many other resources and information in this area can be found on the Perspective Lite website by following the pathway- LA Documents > Safeguarding > Areas within Safeguarding > Online Safety.  

LCC Safeguarding in Schools Team