E-safety advice for parents
Please see the link to the website above that has lots of information about online games, consoles and the suitability for your child. They have also produced some guidance for specific platforms. There’s one for PlayStation, and one for Xbox.
You can also have a look at their 10 E Safety Facts.
Top E-safety Tips to Staying Safe Online Guide. Ofcom’s Media Use and Attitudes Report 2019, published in February 2020, tells us that half of ten-year-olds now own their own smartphone.More children watch video-on-demand (VoD) than watch live broadcast TV. For parents and families, and for anyone working with children and young people, it’s not easy to keep up with what’s going on.
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Another article from the ‘Parenting in a digital age’ series, ‘The real cost of online gaming‘ that is also on the website also gives an insight into the type of things to be aware of when it comes to gaming.