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Top Tips for Parents /Guardians

Top Tips for Parents /Guardians

CEOP have made the following tips available to the parents/guardians of children involved in football. We recommend you take these tips on board and also have a look at the Thinkuknow website.

• Visit CEOP’s online safety centre, www.thinkuknow.co.uk which has internet safety tips for parents and children. Also see www.ceop.police.uk/parents
• Install a websafe browser on computers. In addition to browser safety settings you can use
 ClickCEOP addons to give your child quick access to help, advice and the ability to report visit www.ceop.police.uk/browser-safety
• Ask your child to show you the sites they use and help them to create strong passwords for any they log into. A combination of numbers, capital letters and symbols is ideal.
• Talk to your child’s mobile phone operator about filtering software to block inappropriate content and websites.
• If your child uses social networking sites to communicate with friends, ensure they set their profile setting to private and together ’like’ the ClickCEOP page on Facebook, www.facebook.com/clickceop . 
• Help your children to understand they should never give out personal details to online friends they do not know offline. These include an email address, mobile number, school name, sports club, arrangements for meeting up with friends and any pictures or videos of themselves, their family or friends.
• Make your children aware that they need to think carefully about the information, videos and pictures they put online or exchange with friends. Once published online or shared, they have lost control and anyone can change or share the images of them.
• If your child receives spam or junk email and texts, remind them never to believe their contents, reply to them or use them.
• It's not a good idea for your child to open files that are from people they don't know. They won't know what they contain—it could be a virus, or worse - an inappropriate image or film.
• Help your child to understand that some people lie online and that therefore, it's better to keep online mates online. They should never meet up with any strangers without an adult they trust.
• Always make sure your child feels comfortable in being able to come to you or someone they trust if they are worried about anything online. Teach young people how to block someone online and report them if they feel uncomfortable. Most sites will have guidance on this and any reports can be made directly to the CEOP Centre via www.ceop.police.uk

Related links
Thinkuknow


Guidance forclub Child Welfare Officers


Tips for coaches, medics and referees

Reporting abuse online


Staying safe online

 

 

 

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