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Snap Maps lets users track each other’s movements in real time, but child safety groups are cautioning young people against sharing their location

YOUNG people need to be taught cyber resilience in schools because they do not feel equipped to navigate the online world, a charity has warned. The Diana Award, which commissioned research to mark #StandUpToBullying day today, found that 83 per cent of children aged 10 to 16 wanted cyber lessons as part of their school timetable.

Victims as young as seven are being blackmailed with their own sexual information and images, according to a new report.

Letting your child use social media is like giving them cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes – all at once, or so we’re told. But there is no scientific evidence to support such extreme claims.

SOCIAL media firms have failed to tackle online child abuse, grooming and bullying, a leading children’s charity has claimed.

The word “addiction” brings to mind alcohol and drugs. Yet, over the past 20 years, a new type of addiction has emerged: addiction to social media.

The parents of a schoolboy who took his own life after he was relentlessly bullied because of his good grades have spoken for the first time about the tragedy.

Teachers do themselves no favours when they immediately take to social media to see the reaction to a GCSE exam, argues one secondary English teacher

Sandra Leaton Gray, the author of a polemical report into internet privacy, says that we need less digital spying and more trust within families

Internet safety should be treated like road safety and caution with strangers as new figures show frequency of exposure to inappropriate content, says children’s charity

Fake blind dates and the distribution of compromising pictures are among the tactics being used by digitally savvy pupils to humiliate their teachers

A study carried out by an anti-bullying charity found that 57% of the young people it surveyed had experienced bullying online when playing games.

Thousands of Scottish children have admitted to being bullied online with many unable to stop posting on social media amid fears their devices “are designed to be addictive”.

The data showed that among forces that recorded ages, 13 was the most common age of a victim.

TEACHERS and parents at one southeast Queensland school are stepping up their efforts to combat cyber crime after 28 students admitted to meeting a stranger who they had met online.

A worried mum has spoken out about a dangerous new craze spreading through schools that’s leaving children’s skin covered in burns.

The 12-year-old has been referred to the Youth Justice Management Unit following reports of the violent footage appearing online.

The theme for Anti-Bullying Week 2017 is All Different, All Equal - empowering children and young people to celebrate what makes them, and others, unique

Young children's maths, English and communication skills improve if they use iPads in school on a regular basis. That is one of the key findings of the most in-depth research of its kind ever carried out in Northern Ireland.

Leaked guidelines on cruel and abusive posts also show how company judges who ‘deserves our protection’ and who doesn’t