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:
App Safety Settings
With the Online Safety Act now in force it’s no surprise to see a lot of focus and scrutiny on tech companies, their features and safety settings being so prominent in the media, particularly safety settings failures. However, that shouldn’t detract from the fact that safety settings are important; they’re not perfect and never will be, but they are there for a reason. So this feels like a good time to either send a reminder out to parents or to take a look at the links on your school website to some of the more popular social apps which I’ve shared below, all from the Internet Matters website:
Discord app settings – HERE.
TikTok parental controls – HERE.
Snapchat parental controls – HERE.
Instagram parental controls – HERE.
Pinterest privacy and safety settings – HERE.
FaceTime privacy and safety settings – HERE.
WhatsApp privacy guide – HERE.
