The Internet offers great experiences for adults and children. There are opportunities to improve your life, have some fun, enhance your education or pursue business interests. Young people are often enthusiastic Internet users, particularly of interactive services like Email, Chat and Instant Messaging. However, like many exciting activities, there are risky situations to deal with and hazards to avoid. This website offers advice about how to be safe online. Learning how to use the Internet is not hard, it just takes some thinking and getting used to, like any new situation you get involved in.The aim of this website is to provide information and advice to adults, especially parents and teachers, about potential problems of life on the Internet and how to behave. If responsible adults understand the issues and know how to deal with safety concerns, they are better able to support young people who use the Internet and encourage them to be safe online.You could use the advice to start a discussion with your children or the young people close to you about the Internet. You could also find out what your school is doing; for example, does the school have an Acceptable Use Policy that pupils and parents must sign before getting Internet access at school? Are children and teachers taught how to use the Internet and given guidance on how to deal with problems? What else could be done to protect children online and how could you assist The intention is to make it easier for parents, carers and teachers to use and understand the Internet themselves and for them to be able to advise children, when for example they are emailing friends, researching subjects on the web or joining chat rooms. We hope that you find this site valuable. Please do contact us if there are problems that we haven’t addressed, using the details given on the Contact partnerswebpage.The website was created originally as part of the Safer Use of Services on the Internet SUSI project, an Internet safety awareness project supported by the European Union Safer Internet Action Plan. europa.eu.intinformationsocietyprogrammesiapindexen.htm Its UK partners were Learning and Teaching Scotland, a government education agency, and the Scottish Parent Teacher Council. With other partners in Iceland, Netherlands and Spain, we formed a consortium of parents, educational and commercial organisations.

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