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A survey of more than 5,000 Norfolk children has revealed a surge of cyber-bullying inside our schools.

A teenage girl seen bullying two schoolgirls in a video posted on Facebook has been given a referral order to supervise her behaviour.

PM says he will introduce legislation that could see websites shut down if they fail to bring in effective age-restricted controls

A new study conducted on behalf of London Grid for Learning suggests one third of young people have made friends online with people they did not know before and over half of these have met up in person.

Our teenagers live their lives on their smartphones. That means we should do all we can to stop them being exploited

Police have issued a stark warning over keeping kids safe from internet predators after the shock news that children of primary school age have been sharing intimate pictures.

The right to delete embarrassing and sometimes incriminating posts from the internet will allow children to become adults without their childhood leaving a permanent mark on the web.

The head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council is suggesting that police should no longer go into schools to warn children about the dangers of extremism and the task should be done by teachers instead.

Charity claims there are two convictions each day for indecent images and calls for urgent action two years after government promised crackdown

Twitter is making another attempt to help users on its site who are confronted with abuse by launching a dedicated "Safety Centre". Following several attempts to bring new functionality to the site, and alter its internal policies to make abuse easier to deal with, the site is now launching the Safety Centre to "promote good digital citizenship".

The commission said teachers should be locking their social media accounts and keeping a record of their Internet use amid concerns students are tracking their online activity to find out more about their personal lives.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after tweeting a bomb threat to a school. Cheshire Police confirmed that Saints Peter & Paul Catholic College, in Widnes, received a tweet which made reference to a bomb at around 7pm on Wednesday night.

Britain’s online porn filters championed by Prime Minister David Cameron in 2013 could become unlawful under proposed EU legislation, which is due to be voted on in the autumn.

A 16-year-old girl has been sent thousands of death threats after she was shown in a video online attacking two teenagers, a court has heard. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted robbery and assault when she appeared at Birmingham youth court on Wednesday.

The FBI has made a public appeal to help identify more than 240 victims of a man who used the internet to extort pornographic images from teenage girls.

A new warning has been issued to individuals and businesses about emails being sent by cyber criminals claiming to be from British Gas, Ministry of Justice and Home Office that contain TorrentLocker ransomware.

There were more than 16,000 crime reports involving the two social media giants last year alone, according to statistics obtained by the U.K. Press Association under the Freedom of Information Act.

Results from a survey of over a thousand 11-18 year olds launched today by UK charity Childnet reveals that 12% of respondents have accidentally spent money on an in-app purchase.

Warwickshire’s director of public health, Dr John Linnane, says figures show that more young people are deliberately hurting themselves. He lays the blame partly on social media for giving a platform to cyber bullies and projecting images of impossible bodily perfection.

North Yorkshire Police have launched an online safety campaign urging teenagers to think about the consequences of sharing selfie photos.