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£4.4 million government fund backs projects including tootoot app to let children use screenshots of online abuse to report bullying.

Parents have been urged to take more of an interest in their children's online activities after a new study has found paedophiles can groom children in less than 20 minutes.

UPDATE 5th September 2016 - Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.

Digital education is moving in the right direction, but not fast enough to combat the UK's impending digital skills crisis facing the country – a crisis that is already costing the UK economy in excess of £60 billion, argues Greg McCulloch, CEO of data centre provider Aegis Data.

Starting today, a TV licence is required to use the BBC iPlayer for both catch-up and live broadcasts. Until now you were able to use iPlayer for catch-up TV without handing a single pence or pound over to the Beeb, as the licence only applied to live broadcasts.

A leading children's charity says police figures show under-18s are being criminalised for sharing nude photographs of themselves.

Pokemon Go players have been involved in hundreds of police incidents since the gaming app phenomenon launched, the BBC has learned. Robberies, thefts, assaults and driving offences were among 290 incidents recorded across England and Wales throughout July.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance as Super Mario in the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games delighted audiences around the world. It also hinted at the exciting possibility that eSports – or video games, as they’re conventionally known – may become part of the programme at Tokyo 2020.

Facebook's new app, Lifestage, is a social network specifically for high schoolers. But you don't have to actually be a high schooler to use it.

Parents are at a serious crossroads when it comes to what their teens are doing or seeing online, according to a National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) study of online safety attitudes and behaviors released today that reveals that up to 60 per cent of teens have online accounts that their parents are unaware of and 57 per cent of parents admit that they are in the dark about what their kids are dong online.

New research by the Department of Education has found that the mental well-being of teenage girls in the UK is worsening. The survey, which took the views of 30,000 14-year-old pupils in 2005 and 2014, found that 37% of girls suffer from psychological distress, up from 34% in 2005.

More than 150 people in Wales have been reported to police for meeting children following sexual grooming over the last five years, new figures show. NSPCC Cymru wants compulsory online safety lessons to become part of the curriculum.

Stay up to date and keep your child safe in today's digital world - A parent guide

Students who miss their grades could feel even worse when they see lots of happy faces on social media. Here’s how to help them stay positive

The pop star led a team of troll hunters to track down internet bullies.

The UKCCIS Education Group has produced advice for schools and colleges on responding to incidents of ‘sexting.’ The advice aims to support them in tackling the range of issues which these incidents present including responding to disclosures, handling devices and imagery, risk assessing situations and involving other agencies.

Parents are becoming increasingly concerned about what their children might come across online as figures show one in six youngsters are using the internet UNDER THREE years of age.

UK — New research has revealed that smartphone use has overtaken laptop use for the first time among UK 10-15 year-olds.

NSPCC Scotland said they had seen a rise in children seeking help over the issue. Most parents have not spoken to their child about sharing indecent images despite a rise in children seeking counselling about "sexting", a charity has found.

Twitter has denied the rumour that it is to shut down in 2017, saying that the viral rumour was baseless. This news spread through fake accounts and within a short time it turned viral and spread across the internet like wild fire, resulting in the creation of hashtag #SaveTwitter. More than 100,000 tweets were sent using the hashtag.