Online Safety & Resources for Parents
Awards for Online Safety at OLOL
Online Safety Awards (Certificates)
National Online Safety Parent Training
Report Harmful Content (RHC) Button
The RHC button is an asset of SWGfL, a charity working internationally to ensure all benefit from technology, free from harm. The button has been developed to offer anyone living in the UK a simple and convenient mechanism for gaining access to reporting routes for commonly used social networking sites, gaming platforms, apps and streaming services alongside trusted online safety advice, help and support. It also provides access to an online mechanism for reporting online harm to the RHC service for those over the age of 13 where an initial report has been made to industry but no action has been taken. RHC will review content in line with a sites' community standards and act in a mediatory capacity where content goes against these.
Children under 13 years of age are encouraged to tell an adult that they trust about what has happened and to ask for their help in reporting this.
RHC also have advice and links to reporting routes for other online harms people may come across or face, such as impersonation, privacy violations and intimate image abuse.
The RHC button provides a gateway to the RHC reporting pages, an area of the RHC website offering:
links to reporting routes on commonly used sites for 8 types of online harm
help, advice and support on what to do if experiencing or witnessing harm online
signposting to industry partners reporting forms and the ability to report legal but harmful content directly to RHC for further investigation
Reports can be made 24/7 through the online reporting forms and helpline practitioners will review and respond to reports within 72 hours between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday.
Reports can be made to RHC by anyone over the age of 13. SWGfL operates 3 helplines and to be sure you're getting the right support take a look at the Helpline flowchart below to find out who can best support you.
Cyber Resilience
OLOL has core membership of the Cyber Resilience Centre for the West Midlands (www.wmcrc.co.uk) as part of our continual drive to make the school cyber secure with attention paid to 5 key areas of our infrastructure:
- Firewalls and Internet Gateways
- Secure Configuration
- Access Control
- Malware Protection
- Patch Management
Our school will use the resources from the Cyber Resilience Centre (created by Police cyber experts) to continually increase safety and security online at OLOL.
Online Safety and Security Policy Staff Guidance Document 2021 - 2023
Online Safety Newsletters for Parents
Online Safety Parental Survey 2021
Online Safety in our Computing Curriculum
Digital Parenting Guidance
Fairy Tales for the Digital Age
National Online Safety Materials for Parents
Online Safety Toolkits
Education for a Connected World
Support Documents for Parents
Websites to help you with Online Safety
Online Safety and Security Links