Keeping children safe online in communities
Keeping children and young people safe is a shared responsibility. Explore this advice so your organisation, service or practice can help prevent and handle online risks and harms, while improving online safety among families in your community.
Online risks for children in your community
Understand how harms can happen
How you can protect children from online harm
Build safety into your operations and activities
How to help a child experiencing online abuse
Learn to recognise and report abuse
How to help families keep children safer online
Share trusted advice with parents and carers
Reflection and planning tool
Assess how ready you are to prevent and deal with online abuse
Supporting children experiencing domestic violence
Know what to do about family abuse
How we talk about children and families
Throughout eSafety’s website and resources we use ‘families’ and ‘parents and carers’ to talk about the adults who support children. When we use these terms, we include the mums, dads, parents, carers, aunties, uncles and other supportive adults who we know can have an important role in helping children play, learn and grow.
When we talk about ‘children’ we mean everyone under 18 years old. Sometimes we include the term ‘young people’ because many teenagers don't like to be called children. We also know that parents and carers continue to support and nurture young people beyond their teens and our advice can be useful for them as well.