At Riverside, we believe that E-Safety is a critical part of protecting the wellbeing and safety of our pupils online. We believe it is important for us to work in partnership with you as a parent, to keep pupils safe online.

Please click the links below for some useful E-Safety advice and resources:

• Help you identify what you can or cannot trust when you go online.
• Are you worried about online sexual abuse or the way someone has been communicating with you online? Make a report to one of CEOP's Child Protection Advisors.
• Get Safe Online
• Cybersecurity Advice
• How to set Internet Parental Controls (NSPCC)
• Nintendo Switch Parental Controls - All tech devices come with parental controls, but they're not always easy to find or understand and can differ quite significantly from device to device. The Nintendo Switch, which is a very popular device, has a range of parental controls, such as browser access, restricting games based on age, chat settings and more and more. 
• Managing Screen Time - Guidance about helping their children to develop a healthy relationship with technology. Internet Matters have a series of tips and guides to help with this including setting up parental controls, finding other activities to do, agreeing on boundaries and more. 
• NSPCC
• Little Digital Helps Toolkit - This is a really useful toolkit for anyone who may be unsure about what parental features are available on their children's devices. Put together by Internet Matters and Tesco it takes around 8 minutes to answer a few questions and then receive a tailored toolkit.
• Children's Online Safety Test and Tips for Parents
• Safer Internet Organisation - Key questions around ensuring the internet is a place, and signposting for answers. It hard to keep up with all the changes!
• LGFL.net - The Parent safe site, keeping your children safe online and beyond.
• Internetmatters.org - Supporting children and young people with SEND online
• Roblox Checklist 2023 - Roblox is one of the most popular games out there. Roblox and SWGfL have collaborated together and created a checklist which includes:
  • How to report abuse.
  • How to block users.
  • Setting up a parent control pin.
  • And more.
• Online Safety Talk for Families - March 2023 & Links
• Parent Guide to TikTok
• Safer Internet Day 2022
• Swoosh and Glide - a series of 4 story puzzles to get the conversation going whilst showing the children how to use digital technologies in a safe and positive way
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - May 2021
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - March 2021
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - January 2021
• Google Approved Apps
• TiKTok Family Pairing - how to customise safety settings 
• Safer Internet Resources
• Momo Challenge Advice for Parents
• Safer Internet Day 2019 
• Ditto Online Safety Magazine - January 2019
• YouTube Online Safety Guide for Parents
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - October 2018
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - September 2018
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - June 2018 - YouTube Special
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - April 2018
• DITTO Online Safety Magazine - January 2018