Parent/carer eSafety Evening 2021 - Cheadle Hulme Primary ...

Parent/carer eSafety Evening 2021

Life in Lockdown

•   Lacking structure
•   TikTok
•   Socialisation
•   Body-consciousness
•   Covid-19

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“Most children in the study were lacking
structure and tended to fill their time with
online activities.”

•   Reduced schoolwork
•   Parental support
•   “Picking battles”
•   Lack of routine
•   Alone time
•   Sleep

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“Most were using the TikTok app for several
hours each day and reported that it was a good
way to ‘kill time’”

 • Own content
 • Copycatting
 • Parents’ Ultimate Guide to
   TikTok

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“Socialisation had moved online, often done
in conjunction with other activities such as
gaming, and while multi-screening.”
• Apps: FaceTime, Zoom, Skype,
  Snapchat, Discord
• “It [playing Fortnite with a friend]
  has made us closer.”
• “…it was nice to have something
  to do ‘in the background’ and
  didn’t think they would otherwise
  chat ‘face to face’”
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• Curation of profiles
• ‘Mirror pictures’
• “Ben, 12, posted a ‘thank you’
  message on his Instagram
  account when he reached 50
  followers, with the comment
  ‘100 next?’ He later posted
  ‘Thanks for 100 followers.’
  when he reached 100.”

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“In some cases, these girls talked openly about
feeling insecure about their own bodies, and
feeling pressure from seeing others exercise on
social media”

 •   Exercise
 •   Results
 •   ‘For You’ feed
 •   ‘Recommended’

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“After an initial surge in interest, the children
had disengaged with the news about Covid-19.”

 • Anxiety/lack of interest
 • “After disengaging with news
   content, some continued to receive
   news passively via their social
   media networks.”
 • Rule breaking
 • Black Lives Matter
 • Distrust
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Digital Resilience Framework

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What are the issues?

•   Conduct
•   Content
•   Contact
•   Commercialism

Advice on Key Topics

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Resources for parents/carers

•   UK Safer Internet Centre
•   NSPCC & O2
•   Internet Matters
•   ThinkUKnow
•   Childnet
•   Vodafone Digital Parenting

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Safeguarding Children in Education
Settings Team (SCiES)
 Managing Social Media & Mental Health Apps

 • The Anna Freud Foundation have produced this managing social
   media booklet which aims to highlight some key social media issues
   and offers advice and guidance on how to minimise the impact of
   social media on your mental health:
 • https://www.annafreud.org/on-my-mind/managing-social-media/

 • Additionally they have an app resource bank which details self help
   apps that have been approved either by the NHS, ORCHA or Our
   Mobile Health and are free to download:
 • https://www.annafreud.org/on-my-mind/self-care/apps-delivering-
   self-help-strategies/
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Tackling online grooming and child
        sexual exploitation

The Facts
• 10,391 crimes were recorded by all forces across the UK for
  2019/20. Total is for sexual offences that involve an online
  element.

• Offences increased by 16% from the previous year.

• 1 in 5 children groomed online are under the age of 11

• There is an estimated figure of 500,000 online groomers
  active online each day.
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Emma's story
Olivia’s* daughter Emma* was 6 years old when she was groomed and
sexually exploited through an online game called Movie Star Planet.

A man gained her trust then threatened her into sending him and other adults
sexually explicit images. Then the online grooming moved to sexual abuse.

The man threatened to kill her parents if she told them about this. Emma was
so afraid that this may happen that she did not tell her mum and dad what
was happening.
Because of this the online abuse was allowed to continue and this male got
Emma to send more images of herself over to him.
One day Emma got so upset she told her mum what was happening and the
police were called.

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Awareness and Prevention
                 • What proof of I.D did I need to
                   set this up?

                 Samuel Wilson
                 Aged 6
                 Cheadle Hulme

                 • Don't always assume this is ok
                   – Do you know who this is?
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Prevention
• Parental controls – Turn the chat off!
• Talk to each other
• Are these games appropriate for their age group?
• Regularly check their tablets and keep updated on what they
  are doing
• What are you advertising on your own social media?

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