Articles Archive
How Does the Internet Know What I’m Thinking?
Take a look at why the internet has become so personal to individuals through ads and suggested content and ways you can help manage it and set some boundaries.
19th May 2022
Safeguarding Awareness Week - Harmful Sexual Behaviour Support Service
TES have organised the first Safeguarding Awareness Week to support schools in keeping children and young people safe. Find out what support is available.
17th May 2022
Supporting Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 – Advice from SWGfL and our Helplines
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, focusing on loneliness. Here, we provide guidance and resources to support professionals or the young people in their care, throughout and beyond the week.
12th May 2022
New Online Safety Lives – May and June 2022
For May and June, we have Online Safety Live events planned for Northern Ireland and England. Find out what events are happening and book your free place.
11th May 2022
Barefoot for Early Years
Barefoot have increased their range of enjoyable, free resources and activities based around computational thinking concepts and approaches for Early Years.
5th May 2022
Spot and Support campaign from the Harmful Sexual Behaviour Support Service
Read more about the Spot and Support campaign from the Harmful Sexual Behaviour Support Service.
4th May 2022
SWGfL partners with Dialogue to support residential care online safety leads
We have partnered with Dialogue to provide quarterly workshops for online safety leads who want to support the digital wellbeing and online safety of children in residential care and supported accommodation. Read more about this new partnership in our latest article!
3rd May 2022
Barefoot Climate Change Resources
Discover more about the 'Climate Champions' resource from Barefoot!
28th April 2022
ProjectEVOLVE launches School Account Analysis Dashboard and more new features!
ProjectEVOLVE are pleased to have launched a variety of new updates! In this article we take you through each update and how they can support new and existing users.
25th April 2022
Age Verification
The online safety bill is enforcing age verification technologies on Pornography Websites. In this article Ken Corish takes an in-depth look at this, age verification challenges, its history and the solutions that are making age verification processes, easier to enforce and manage.
22nd April 2022
Bridging the Gap: National Stalking Helpline Conference 27th April 2022
The National Stalking Awareness Week Conference is taking place on the 27th. Here, the Revenge Porn Helpline takes you through the importance of the conference and the awareness week.
20th April 2022
Introducing our Digital Wellbeing Hub!
SWGfL are delighted to introduce to you our latest topics page, Digital Wellbeing. Read our latest article to discover more!
20th April 2022
Barefoot meets the micro:bit!
Barefoot is excited to announce that for their latest set of resources they’ve teamed up with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation to create two ‘Barefoot meets the micro:bit’ activities!
12th April 2022
How do young people use online platforms positively?
Online platforms like social media have a stigma attached to it. For some, social media platforms are like the Wild West; unregulated, ruthless, frantic. However the latest report from Ofcom contradicts these thoughts by suggesting that young people are using online spaces positively.
11th April 2022
Another Record Breaking Safer Internet Day!
Take a look at the findings for Safer Internet Day 2022 and see what impact the day had towards keeping children and young people safe online.
5th April 2022
ProjectEVOLVE Launches Evaluation Report
ProjectEVOLVE has now launched a new report that analyses data and findings from the schools and professionals who use it. Find out more in our article.
1st April 2022