Online Safety
Communicating with children and young people online can have great benefits for an organisation, from encouraging a team ethos, to gaining new club members.
Unfortunately, having negative experiences online can affect a young person’s enjoyment of sport as well as their performance. Organisations should make sure they put appropriate safeguards in place to protect children from potential risks whilst in their care or communicating with them online.
Online safety risks for young people can include, but are not limited to:
- posting personal information that can identify and locate a child offline
- potential for inappropriate relationships between adults in positions of trust and the young people they work with
- grooming, luring, exploitation and abuse, or unwanted contact
- exposure to inappropriate content, including racist or hate material or violent behaviour
Take a look at the NSPCC website for more information on the types of online abuse.
Sextortion
We have guidance on a rising issue for young people in particular.
Social Media Checklists
These checklists have been produced by the UK Safer Internet Centre in collaboration with each of these social media providers and are updated regularly to reflect latest changes to safety features. The latest updates to these checklists were made in Oct and Nov 2017
