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A Manchester schoolgirl arrested with a teenage boy involved in a plot to attack police at an Anzac Day parade in Australia has admitted two terror offences. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because of her age, used her school computers to look up Islamic State (IS) killer Jihadi John.

New research suggests parents are waiting too long to discuss online safety issues with their children.

Social gaming has boomed over the last few years, and with in-app purchases now commonplace, the lines between social gaming and real money gaming are becoming increasingly blurred.

The school curriculum should help children critique and cope with what they see on the internet, says Hannah Broadbent from the charity Childnet

How the internet drove teenagers from experimenting with drugs and alcohol to starving themselves.

Words from the internet are now not just some terms used by web dwellers. They are now official part of our language, they have their own definitions and are included in dictionaries. Today it is a normal practice to use these forms in newspaper articles, school essays, science works or any other form of writing or speaking.

A HEADTEACHER from Rugby has been shortlisted for a nationwide award for helping keep pupils safe online. Eastlands Primary School head Joanne Corrigan is in the running for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards, and a £10,000 prize for her project to safeguard children against the dangers they could face on the worldwide web.

The dating app Tinder has been slammed for allowing underage kids to use its services. Kids who are well under the age of consent are able to use the app to meet potential lovers, according to the firm's terms of use.

A manipulative primary school teacher who blackmailed a teenage girl before hacking into her Twitter account to post revenge porn has been jailed for 18 months.

Age restrictions have been placed on some music videos following an agreement between YouTube and Vemo and government ministers to help prevent children watching violent and sexually explicit content. However, online safety analysts at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) have warned that children can easily get around the age verification systems.

POLICE in Tyrone have received almost 1,000 calls linked to social media in the past five years. The number of crimes in the county connected with sites such as Facebook and Twitter have steadily increased each year since 2010/11, data released to the Tyrone Herald shows.

Music videos produced in the UK that are shown online will now come with an age rating in a bid to protect children. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), backed by the Government, is working with video-sharing websites Vevo and YouTube to implement the grading system.

Police are investigating a "new" crime of cyber-flashing after a commuter received an indecent image on her phone as she travelled to work.

As more kids use mobile phones and surf the web at increasingly younger ages, sexting and Internet safety are becoming bigger childhood health concerns, edging out longtime worries like smoking and teen pregnancy, a new poll suggests.

Partners in the UK Safer Internet Centre, the Internet Watch Foundation, have today launched new technology to help in the fight against child abuse images online The ‘Hash List’, aims to step up efforts to make the internet a hostile place to share, view and download and trade images of children being sexually abused.

QUEENSLAND teachers are being suspended for engaging in inappropriate relationships with students online. More than a dozen teachers have had their registration cancelled since 2009

Smartphones are the UK’s most popular device for getting online for the first time, according to industry monitor Ofcom. The change has largely been driven by our increased appetite for video, and its availability with the expansion of high-speed 4G data networks.

Unless we get control of the screens which now absorb so much of our kids' time, their health and their schooling will suffer

Pupils can perform at more than seven years above their expected academic level by using the internet, a pioneering study has concluded.

A teenager has been ordered to pay compensation to Lord Alan Sugar after sending an anti-Semitic tweet. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sent The Apprentice star messages, including one beginning "old Jewish" followed by a swear-word.