As more kids use mobile phones and surf the web at increasingly younger ages, sexting and Internet safety are becoming bigger childhood health concerns, edging out longtime worries like smoking and teen pregnancy, a new poll suggests.
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Reuters
11 Aug 2015
Partners in the UK Safer Internet Centre, the Internet Watch Foundation, have today launched new technology to help in the fight against child abuse images online
The ‘Hash List’, aims to step up efforts to make the internet a hostile place to share, view and download and trade images of children being sexually abused.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
10 Aug 2015
QUEENSLAND teachers are being suspended for engaging in inappropriate relationships with students online.
More than a dozen teachers have had their registration cancelled since 2009
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Courier Mail (Aus)
10 Aug 2015
Smartphones are the UK’s most popular device for getting online for the first time, according to industry monitor Ofcom.
The change has largely been driven by our increased appetite for video, and its availability with the expansion of high-speed 4G data networks.
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The Guardian
06 Aug 2015
Unless we get control of the screens which now absorb so much of our kids' time, their health and their schooling will suffer
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The Telegraph
06 Aug 2015
Pupils can perform at more than seven years above their expected academic level by using the internet, a pioneering study has concluded.
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TES
04 Aug 2015
A teenager has been ordered to pay compensation to Lord Alan Sugar after sending an anti-Semitic tweet.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sent The Apprentice star messages, including one beginning "old Jewish" followed by a swear-word.
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Yahoo News
04 Aug 2015
A survey of more than 5,000 Norfolk children has revealed a surge of cyber-bullying inside our schools.
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Eastern Daily Press
04 Aug 2015
A teenage girl seen bullying two schoolgirls in a video posted on Facebook has been given a referral order to supervise her behaviour.
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BBC
03 Aug 2015
PM says he will introduce legislation that could see websites shut down if they fail to bring in effective age-restricted controls
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The Guardian
30 Jul 2015
A new study conducted on behalf of London Grid for Learning suggests one third of young people have made friends online with people they did not know before and over half of these have met up in person.
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Schools Improvement Net
30 Jul 2015
Our teenagers live their lives on their smartphones. That means we should do all we can to stop them being exploited
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The Guardian
30 Jul 2015
Police have issued a stark warning over keeping kids safe from internet predators after the shock news that children of primary school age have been sharing intimate pictures.
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Daily Record
29 Jul 2015
The right to delete embarrassing and sometimes incriminating posts from the internet will allow children to become adults without their childhood leaving a permanent mark on the web.
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BT.com
29 Jul 2015
The head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council is suggesting that police should no longer go into schools to warn children about the dangers of extremism and the task should be done by teachers instead.
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Schools Improvement Net
28 Jul 2015
Charity claims there are two convictions each day for indecent images and calls for urgent action two years after government promised crackdown
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The Guardian
22 Jul 2015
Twitter is making another attempt to help users on its site who are confronted with abuse by launching a dedicated "Safety Centre".
Following several attempts to bring new functionality to the site, and alter its internal policies to make abuse easier to deal with, the site is now launching the Safety Centre to "promote good digital citizenship".
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Wired
21 Jul 2015
The commission said teachers should be locking their social media accounts and keeping a record of their Internet use amid concerns students are tracking their online activity to find out more about their personal lives.
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The Educator (Aus)
21 Jul 2015
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after tweeting a bomb threat to a school.
Cheshire Police confirmed that Saints Peter & Paul Catholic College, in Widnes, received a tweet which made reference to a bomb at around 7pm on Wednesday night.
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Mirror
20 Jul 2015
Britain’s online porn filters championed by Prime Minister David Cameron in 2013 could become unlawful under proposed EU legislation, which is due to be voted on in the autumn.
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RT.com
16 Jul 2015