Two recent surveys highlight manyn of the safety issues around children using the Internet.
A BBC Teach survey, underatken by Censuswide found that more than three-quarters (80%) of primary school teachers are aware of at least one safeguarding incident linked to online safety in the past 12 months. Meanwhile, a third (36%) of teachers reported that safeguarding incidents, linked to online safety, had increased at their primary school. Almost every respondent (99.8%) indicated that they felt children faced challenges and, selecting from a list of options, were most likely to say that they felt children were afraid of their friends finding out; unclear as to who they should speak to; and feel there is no point in reporting an incident as nothing will change. You can read more about this on the BBC website here.
Alongside this, a survey by the UK Safer Internet Centre found that almost half of 8 to 17-year-olds have been scammed online., and 9%, including 8-year-olds, have lost money to an online scam. They note that that 83% of parents and carers feel there are more scams than ever before, a view shared by almost half of children (47%). In addition, 81% of parents and carers and 43% of teens feel that online scams are getting more convincing, and around a third of young people (32%) worry that the use of new technology, such as gen AI, will make scams much harder to identify. You can read more about this on the UKSIC here.
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