A Comprehensive Guide for Parents In the digital age, ensuring the safety of children online has become a paramount concern for parents. With the rapid evolution of technology, new challenges emerge, necessitating updated strategies and awareness. This guide aims to provide parents with the latest developments, tools and practices to protect their children in 2025. 1. Understanding the Current Digital Landscape…

How Technology Is Changing Our Children’s Faces—and Their Self-Esteem In the last 12 months, we’ve seen extraordinary advances in AI, smartphone cameras, and beauty-enhancing filters. But with this innovation has come a darker consequence: the reshaping of our children’s sense of self. Elise Hu’s powerful TED Talk, “How digital culture is reshaping our faces and bodies”,offers a sobering insight into how pervasive and harmful this trend has become.

Explore how AI enhances online safety for children through advanced age verification techniques while addressing privacy and regulatory challenges.

This guide is one of the clearest we’ve seen on how online grooming really works. It breaks things down in a way kids and parents can both understand. If you want to take action today, start a conv…

Discover why today's kids are more vulnerable online than ever, and learn how parents can reclaim protective authority and set vital boundaries.

In today's digital age, children are more connected than ever, accessing a vast array of online platforms that offer both opportunities and risks. The proliferation of social media, video-sharing sites and online gaming platforms has introduced a spectrum of online harms that can adversely affect young users. In response, the UK government has enacted the Online Safety Act 2023, aiming to hold technology companies accountable for the safety of their users, particularly children.

Wisdom from the Vodafone Digi-Tales Writing Competition 🔗 Online safety messages hit differently when they come from the people most affected by them - our children. In a remarkable writing competition run by Vodafone, First News and the NSPCC, children aged 9 - 14 created fables for the digital age. Their stories don't just entertain - they're packed with powerful lessons about screen time, privacy, scams and digital balance.

Recent discussions in the UK Parliament have highlighted growing concerns about the exploitation of child influencers on social media platforms. Chi Onwurah, Chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Committee, has called for a reassessment of the Online Safety Act, suggesting that its current provisions may be inadequate in addressing the unique challenges faced by child influencers. Unlike child actors and models, who are protected under specific performance laws regulating their working hours, earnings, and supervision, child influencers often operate without such safeguards.

What Every UK Parent Should Know In 2024, the global fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online reached a new level of urgency. According to INHOPE, the international network of hotlin…

Sexually coerced extortion or ‘sextortion' is a type of blackmail where someone tries to use intimate, naked or sexual photos or videos of you to make you do things you don't want to do. Sometimes, these photos or videos are taken without your knowledge, and the person blackmailing you uses them to force you to pay money or do something against your will.