Articles Archive
Online Safety Events – March 2022
SWGfL as part of UK Safer Internet Centre are running free Online Safety events throughout March, available for any professional working with children and young people. Find out more, here.
25th February 2022
Anonymous Reporting at School
What is anonymous reporting and why is it so important for schools to help support their communities? Find out more about this in our in-depth article.
22nd February 2022
Instagram Introduces New Features to Address Screen Time and Harmful Online Content
Want to set some more safety features on Instagram? Find out about Instagram’s latest features added to address screen time and harmful online content, in our latest article.
18th February 2022
ITU Launches POP: Protection Through Online Participation
In collaboration with SWGfL, the ITU has launched Protection through online participation. Find out more about what POP is through our latest article.
16th February 2022
Schools Join Liverpool FC Virtual Event for Safer Internet Day
We were delighted to see so many schools join us for our annual online event with Liverpool Football Club this Safer Internet Day. Find out what happened and if you missed your chance to see the team, you can watch also watch the recording
11th February 2022
Discover Our New Gaming Hub!
With Safer Internet Day 2022 being all about the theme of gaming, we thought we would expand some of our content to give you all you need to know about this rich topic, for the month of February.
7th February 2022
Roblox Interview 2022
Laura Higgins from Roblox joins us once again for an in-depth interview looking at what Roblox has seen recently on the online gaming platform and what they are doing to promote online safety
4th February 2022
Access the Chatbot from Report Harmful Content & Revenge Porn Helpline
The Revenge Porn Helpline and Report Harmful Content have developed a new out of hours support system for their clients to get interim support. Find out more here about how you can use this new service:
3rd February 2022
Liverpool Football Club and UKSIC hosting virtual event for Safer Internet Day 2022
We are delighted to say that Liverpool Football Club will once again be supporting Safer Internet Day 2022 by joining the UKSIC team for a virtual event taking place next week on Tuesday 8th February.
1st February 2022
The Evolution of Online Safety in Gaming
With this year’s Safer Internet Day theme being all about gaming, we’re jumping into this huge topic over the next few weeks. For now though, we're looking at the humble beginnings of gaming and how online safety has evolved alongside it.
14th January 2022
New Harmful Sexual Behaviour Support Service Launched
SWGfL and The Marie Collins Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a brand new support service that is there to support professionals working with children and young people around tackling harmful sexual behaviour incidents on and offline. Find out more in this article.
10th January 2022
SWGfL Services - Christmas Opening Hours
Find out our Christmas opening hours from all of the SWGfL services. From all of us here. we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
22nd December 2021
Professionals Online Safety Helpline Release Annual Report 2021
In this annual report, the Professionals Online Safety Helpline analyses the data from 2020 and finds out what the effects of lockdown were as well as the reports received from professionals working with children and young people.
21st December 2021
Updated TikTok Checklist Available to Download
We have brought out an updated TikTok checklist available to download. The checklist breaks down how users can perform certain actions to keep their profiles more in their control. Find out what is included.
15th December 2021
Joint Committee Reports on Draft Online Safety Bill
A joint committee of MPs joined to scrutinise the draft online safety bill and to make further recommendations for improvement before it goes to parliament and finalised in 2022. Today, the report on the draft bill has been published with the following recommendations.
14th December 2021
Revenge Porn Helpline Release Report: ‘Intimate image abuse, an evolving landscape’
The Revenge Porn Helpline has now released their five-year report ‘Intimate image abuse, an evolving landscape’ looking at the period between 2015 - 2020. Take a look at the full report and the findings here:
14th December 2021