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The theme of Safer Internet Day 2016 is, 'Play your part online for a better internet.' One way to do this is to be a good friend to others online and spread positivity whenever you can. How would you deal with these dilemmas? Take this fun quiz now and find out...

Natasha Devon helps young people feel better about their bodies and yet receives regular online abuse herself

Vast amounts of personal, behavioural and academic data about children are being collected, processed and used by schools, local authorities, and the government every year.

Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who loved gaming, was groomed online and murdered in 2014. His mother, Lorin LaFave, was worried – would her pleas for help from police have been taken more seriously if he’d been a girl?

Young people are spending more time playing and socialising online than watching television programmes, according to an annual survey tracking children's media behaviour in the UK.

Pupils at a top public school have been duped into posting explicit images of themselves online in a 'sexting' scam. Parents at Dauntsey's, one of Britain's oldest public schools and popular with Foreign Office and military families, have been warned that 42 pupils were targeted.

Internet search engines are not a “substitute for knowledge” and technology cannot replace good teachers, Nicky Morgan said today. While the education secretary said she and her government were “excited” by the possibilities that technology could offer the profession, she warned that it could not be a replacement for good teaching.

ASKfm today (19 January) revealed the top 20 trending list of slang words and acronyms posted in the app, which houses 150 million members in more than 150 countries, to help parents better understand the ever-expanding and changing lingo of the youth demographic.

If your school is about to place a large order for iPads, then it would be wise to hold off: according to technology analysts, the days of the tablet are soon to be over.

Parents who are worried their children could run away to join Islamic State are to get advice from a new government website. Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, is launching a series of measures to keep children safe from “the spell of twisted ideologies”.

Only one in four parents of five to 15 year olds have set safety filters on fixed games consoles like Xboxes and PlayStations

This is not strictly a schools or education story, but Faith Gordon from Queen’s University Belfast has written a fascinating article in the Conversation on the use by journalists of children’s social media accounts – perhaps with implications for digital literacy guidance.

One in three of the next billion users of the internet will be under the age of 18, so now’s the time to make children front and centre of its governance and the right to access, a new report states

The telltale blue glow from under the children’s bedroom door is one of parents’ biggest worries. But it’s not easy to take away the phones, laptops and tablets …

According to price comparison website uSwitch.com, the average age a child starts using the internet without the supervision of a parent has fallen from 11 and a half to just four and half years old.

Figures released by counselling service ChildLine reveal low self-esteem to be among most prevalent problems reported by today’s young people

Many UK parents find it easier to get their children to do homework, go to bed or have a bath than turn off their phones, laptops and TVs, a poll finds.

Report reveals police have a 'worrying' lack of understanding over online abuse

All schools to filter inappropriate content and teach pupils about staying safe including online harm.

The issue of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is a global one. 1.8bn photos are uploaded onto the internet everyday, some 720,000 of which are illegal images of children, and technology is making it easier to access and distribute this material. So what measures does the tech industry have in place to ensure children’s safety online, and what is their future potential?