Cyberbullying - Billericay Parents Forum

Cyberbullying

Some Top Tips for Parents

• Be alert to your child seeming upset after using the internet or their mobile phone
  

• Talk to your children about how they are using phones and the internet and try to keep up!
  

• Make sure you are using built in internet safety features
  

• Remind your child not to retaliate (it does not help and the child being bullied may then be seen as a bully and some bullying can involve the police and criminal action)
  

• Keep any evidence (instinctively you may wish to delete; a solution is to cut and paste into a document and save with further evidence)
  

• Report cyberbullying (it is subversive and not harmless)
  

.............- Contact your child's school
.............- Contact the service provider
.............- Depending upon severity consider contacting the police


It is important to teach your children how to use the computer safely and you should start early. Check out this link for children between 5-7 and have fun with your child.

www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/

For those with older children there is useful information for then just use teh links below:-

 For 8 to 10 years  www.thinkuknow/8_10/cybercafe/
For 11 to 16years  www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_16/

If you want to find out more about child protection online then this link to The Child Exploitation Protection Centre is very useful

www.ceop.gov.uk