Young people: safe online
Advice, links and resources for young people
Engaging and up-to-date advice and links to some great resources specifically written for young people.
You’ll find links and downloads for young people on this page.
Cool links
- Think U Know, from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has detailed advice about how to stay safe online and on mobiles.
- Sorted: Designed by young people for young people, this site contains lots of useful information about protecting your privacy online.
- BBC: safe surfing tips.
- KidSMART: flash quizzes, projects and advice about online chat, music, information security, mobiles and much more.
- MSN: Websafecrackerz - have fun and stay safe online for teens.
- Gridclub has lots of safe surfing interactive activities in the Cybercafe.
- The Internet Watch Foundation is somewhere to report illegal content.
- Childline: a free and confidential helpline for children and young people in the UK. Their phone number is 0800 1111.
- NCH, the Children's Charity has internet safety information for young people.
- Digizen: an interactive website offering with advice, information, films and an interactive game on social networking, cyberbullying and how to be a good digital citizen.
Downloads
- Hector the Protector – the dolphin which keeps children safe while surfing.
- Gridclub has two screensavers.
Report it
If you are concerned with something that may have happened while online and need some advice, help or to report it, then click the button below.


