The number of crime allegations involving social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter soared last year as police were deluged with cases of harassment and sexual grooming.
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The Telegraph
11 May 2015
Anti-Bullying Week 2015 will be from the 16th - 20th November.
The strap line is ‘Make a Noise about Bullying’ with the #AntiBullyingWeek.
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Anti-bullying Alliance
08 May 2015
There has been excitement among researchers in recent years that playing certain video and computer games may strengthen core components of cognition, helping us to make quicker decisions, think more fluidly, and avoid harmful distractions.
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The Conversation
08 May 2015
Fed-up staff at Cavendish Community Primary School take to Twitter to publicly shame parents whose drop off and pick up habits leave much to be desired in a bid to keep students safe
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Manchester Evening News
08 May 2015
Teenagers sending consensual, sexually explicit messages are unfairly being labelled sex offenders because of UK laws, say censorship activists.
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Wired
07 May 2015
Technology Is Not the Enemy of Connection
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Huffington Post
07 May 2015
A Leicester primary school has issued an alert to parents after a pupil was sent "inappropriate" questions on a website aimed at children.
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BBC
05 May 2015
Pupils at a £30,000-a-year boarding school worked their way around internal internet filters to order legal highs and had them delivered to the dorms.
Teenage students at Bloxham School, in Oxfordshire, managed to find a loophole in the IT systems allowing them to get onto websites normally banned by staff.
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Daily Mail
05 May 2015
More than 80% of Scottish primary school children don’t think their parents are doing enough to protect them online.
In a survey, they told NSPCC Scotland that online privacy was something they felt their parents should be speaking to them about, but aren’t.
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Original 106 FM
05 May 2015
RiskIQ, the Digital Footprint Security company, today revealed that it currently monitors millions of Facebook advertiser landing pages per day to detect unauthorized and malicious activity. This intelligence helps Facebook proactively take down online threats and protect its users.
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Yahoo News
05 May 2015
As they get older, most children will probably ask for their own mobile or smartphone, and you’ll want to be able to contact them when they spend more time away from home.
Smartphones offer children the ability to be connected to the internet wherever they are, so you need to carefully consider if and when they're ready to go mobile and what you're happy for them to be able to do online.
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Internet Matters
30 Apr 2015
The Spring issue is full of features, reviews and articles that will inspire you to assist in keeping children safe online.
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Child Internet Safety
30 Apr 2015
New research from ESET, the pioneer of proactive protection and the maker of the award-winning ESET NOD32® technology, has today revealed that parents are feeling increasingly concerned about the inappropriate content their children are seeing on the internet.
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IT Pro Portal
30 Apr 2015
Over a year, young people from across Europe submitted and then voted on Youth Manifesto Principles. The resulting Youth Manifesto contains ten principles reflecting the digital rights and opportunities that Europe’s young people view as most essential for building a better internet.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
29 Apr 2015
6 Things You Can Do to Protect Yourself
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Yahoo Tech
28 Apr 2015
A recent project challenged young people to go cold turkey on using digital devices for a week. The results suggest compulsion – not addiction – is the issue
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The Guardian
27 Apr 2015
Bullying has always been an issue when it comes to school kids, but the trouble is that these days picking on the seemingly weaker youngsters in the playground isn’t the end of the matter – thanks to online connectivity, bullying can continue at home, outside of school.
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IT Pro Portal
27 Apr 2015
The male headmaster of a leading all-girls’ grammar school has been sacked after sending a series of private emails to a teenage pupil, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
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Daily Mail
27 Apr 2015
Children struggle to read emotions and are less empathetic than a generation ago because they spend too much time using tablets and smartphones, a leading psychiatrist has warned.
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The Telegraph
27 Apr 2015
Four in ten teenagers have fallen victim to cyber criminals as they carelessly reveal personal details on social media, a new survey shows.
Figures reveal that more than 41 per cent of teenagers aged 18 and under have been targeted by fraudsters looking to obtain their PIN number or bank details.
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The Telegraph
23 Apr 2015