Online Safety and Digital Awareness for Parents, Schools & Safeguarding Professionals

Online safety and digital awareness are now a normal part of helping children grow up safely.

This section brings together practical guidance for parents, schools, and safeguarding-aware adults supporting children aged 5–10 with digital life. The articles below are designed to help adults guide children through online safety, privacy, harmful content, digital boundaries, messaging, gaming, and healthy screen use.

These guides are written in a calm, clear, preventative style to help adults build safer digital habits early, before online risks, confusion, or unhealthy patterns become bigger problems.

Who this section is for

This section is for:

• parents and carers

• teachers and school staff

• safeguarding professionals

• adults supporting children aged 5–10

• anyone helping children use devices, games, apps, and online spaces more safely

What this section covers

The guides in this section help adults support children with:

• online safety basics

• social media awareness

• scams and fake messages

• AI and chatbot safety

• harmful online influences

• unhealthy or untrue online content

• upsetting or violent videos

• private and personal information online

• online friends, chat, and messaging

• healthy screen time boundaries

These topics matter because children often use games, apps, videos, and shared devices before they fully understand privacy, risk, pressure, or how online content can affect feelings and behaviour.

Articles in this section

• Online Safety Rules for Children Under 10

• Should Children Under 10 Use Social Media? A Parent Guide

• How to Protect Children from Online Scams and Fake Messages (Ages 5–10)

• How to Teach Children to Stay Safe with AI and Chatbots (Ages 5–10)

• How to Help Children Spot Harmful Online Influences Before They Shape Behaviour (Ages 5–10)

• How to Teach Children That What They See Online Is Not Always Healthy or True (Ages 5–10)

• Teaching Children About Private and Personal Information Online (Ages 5–10)

• Helping Children Handle Upsetting or Violent Videos Online (Ages 5–10)

• What to Teach Children About Online Friends, In-Game Chat and Messaging (Ages 5–10)

• Setting Safe Screen Time Boundaries Without Constant Arguments (Ages 5–10)

These articles are designed to help adults build safer online habits, clearer boundaries, and stronger early support around the digital situations children now face at home, in school, and in everyday life.

You can explore the books here

Professionals and parents can also access structured safeguarding resources here

You can explore our Toolkits here