Online Issues
If your child is being bullied online: what to do first
How to listen, keep a useful record, use the platform's tools and involve school when online bullying affects a child.
Parents & Carers
Helping your child navigate life online
Understand the apps your child uses, the risks worth knowing about, and how to talk about it without the conversation becoming a fight.
Illustrative photographAdvice for parents
4 articles written for this area.
Guides
Parental controls: what to set up and what they cannot do
A sensible order for setting up home, device and app controls, with a clear view of what filters can and cannot protect against.
Guides
How to talk with your child about life online
A calm, practical way to understand what your child enjoys online, agree boundaries and keep the door open when something goes wrong.
Apps & Games
A parent's guide to Roblox
What Roblox is, why children spend so long on it, the risks that are worth taking seriously, and the settings that make a real difference.
Trusted resources
Specialist organisations for the next step, when you need more detail or direct support.
UK Safer Internet Centre
Parental controls and family resources
Independent advice on filters, devices and the limits of parental controls.
Childnet
Online bullying: advice for families
Practical steps for supporting a child and reporting bullying.
CEOP · National Crime Agency
Report online sexual harm or grooming
CEOP accepts reports about sexual abuse and grooming involving children; it does not handle ordinary bullying or hacked accounts.
NSPCC
Talk through a concern about a child
Online safety advice and a helpline for adults worried about a child.
Starting points
Apps & Games
Guides to the apps and games your child actually uses.
Online Issues
What the risks look like, and what helps.
Get help
Where to go if something has already happened.