Every week e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie sends me weekly updates. They are useful teaching resources but also parent guides to keep you up to date with current trends.
Here are a few tips from this week’s updates:
Popular Apps and Games – A Handout for Parents
Drawn from the Ofcom Online Nation Report 2025 this free handy guide for parents and carers looks at the more popular apps and games used by children and young people. Specifically it covers:
• Key insights.
• A comparison of safety and wellbeing features within apps and games.
• Help and support links for those games and apps (e.g. Family Pairing, YouTube Supervised Experience etc.).
• A few of the more popular helplines.
• App/games reviews from Common Sense Media.
Download: Popular Apps and Games – A Guide for Parents.
Playstation Family App
The Playstation Family App came out in Sept 2025 and it is a great way to help parents set up and manage their children’s Gaming experience. Features include:
• Manage playtime.
• Activity report.
• Visibility into what children are playing.
• Approving playtime requests.
On this web page you will find detailed instructions to guide you through setting up a child account, get notified what game your child is playing in real time, approve or decline a request for extra playtime, apply content filters, privacy settings and more.
