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Many local authorities don’t have proper policies in place to deal with parents who abuse school staff on social media

This year Anti-Bullying Week focuses on cyber-bullying. Here are 10 tips from the Anti-Bullying Alliance for how to avoid being bullied online.

The Movie Star Planet app is designed for children aged eight to 15 and allows users to contact each other in chat rooms and privately. The PSNI in east Belfast were alerted by a woman whose young daughter told her she had received messages including an inquiry about where she lived.

Four out of five children feel that social media companies aren’t doing enough to protect them from pornography, self-harm, bullying, and hatred on their sites, new research has found.

Parents worried their children are swapping inappropriate pictures and selfies with friends or even strangers online are being offered a smartphone app to automatically spot suspect images.

The Google-owned video streaming site will run the workshops, called Internet Citizens, for people aged 16 to 18 in cities across the UK as part of its Creators for Change programme and will raise awareness around issues such as tolerance, empathy and abuse online.

Radicalisation is seen as the top concern in schools, overtaking cyber bullying and child grooming, research shows.

Simply copying Snapchat might not be enough to keep the biggest social network relevant.

YouTube is launching a new campaign to tackle internet safety and issues around fake news, the video streaming site has announced.

Why you should join and how to get started

The Culture Secretary has challenged social media giants including Twitter and Facebook to do more to keep children safe online.

New figures show that more than a quarter of young people in Guernsey have been approached online by a stranger asking them to meet.

As per the recent Investigatory Powers Act otherwise known as the “Snooper's Charter”, UK intelligence agencies were given the green light to access personal data from browsing histories.

Police are warning schools about the app Yellow, dubbed 'Tinder for teens' which it is feared could be used by predators to target children.

More than a third of teachers say that students have cited false information they have found online, according to a poll by the NASUWT teaching union.

A THIRD of Britain’s school teachers have reported online abuse from parents and pupils over the past year, teachers’ union NASUWT said in shocking new research published today.

Tens of thousands of examiners have had their personal details hacked after the exam board AQA was victim to a cyber-attack Schools Week reports.

Social media must do more to counter disinformation

If we continue to focus on how universally dreadful the internet is, we'll miss opportunities to help young people navigate it successfully and safely, writes the former government mental health champion

Top performing school King Solomon Academy in west London says consoles and online games keep children up all night and leave them ‘exhausted in the classroom’