Online safety advice for parents and carers with young children

A page for parents to learn more about video chat and webcams

Show an interest and find out what your child enjoys to do online and ask to be shown the things they like to play, look at, or watch.

Setting up parental controls and filters on your home internet can help to avoid age-inappropriate images, videos and websites being seen by your child whilst they are using the Wi-Fi.

When it comes to your family's technology use, creating a family agreement is a great place to start, and allows you to have conversations about setting boundaries.

It’s important to understand and get to know the tools and safety features on the things your child likes to use.

Screen time is any amount of time spent in front of a screen on any device.

The use of technology to share intimate or sexual photos or videos of yourself or others

To transmit or receive live video and audio coverage of an event or person over the Internet.

Our information and guidance around gaming content and in-game chat features