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Following in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter, social news site Reddit is also taking a stand against user harassment with the launch of an anti-harassment policy. Under the new policy, a user can email Reddit and report abuse and the site will ban users who bully others.

The newly-elected Conservative government is to appoint Baroness Joanna Shields, the former boss of Facebook in Europe, as the UK minister for Internet safety and security.

The head of a Reading primary school has written to parents with a code of conduct about not criticising the school on social media. Is this the right thing for a school to do?

Internet craze where children film themselves pouring flammable liquid on their bodies and set themselves alight is condemned

As researchers studying the economics of education, we conducted a study to find out what impact banning mobile phones has had on student test scores in subsequent years.

It's sparked frightening headlines and warnings from police departments around the world - but there's no evidence that a social media "game" that encourages children to disappear is anything other than a rumour that's got out of hand.

Cyberbullying and "sexting" by young people can lead to depression in later life, warns a psychiatrist. Natasha Bijlani, from the Priory Hospital, Roehampton, says she expects to see a rise in teens and adults self-harming because of exposure to online and digital abuse.

How to address cyber-bullying

Droplr, the file sharing app is back with a free plan and a new tag line - Snapchat for files. Files uploaded using Droplr's free plan self destruct in 7 days.

The number of crime allegations involving social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter soared last year as police were deluged with cases of harassment and sexual grooming.

Anti-Bullying Week 2015 will be from the 16th - 20th November. The strap line is ‘Make a Noise about Bullying’ with the #AntiBullyingWeek.

There has been excitement among researchers in recent years that playing certain video and computer games may strengthen core components of cognition, helping us to make quicker decisions, think more fluidly, and avoid harmful distractions.

Fed-up staff at Cavendish Community Primary School take to Twitter to publicly shame parents whose drop off and pick up habits leave much to be desired in a bid to keep students safe

Teenagers sending consensual, sexually explicit messages are unfairly being labelled sex offenders because of UK laws, say censorship activists.

Technology Is Not the Enemy of Connection

A Leicester primary school has issued an alert to parents after a pupil was sent "inappropriate" questions on a website aimed at children.

Pupils at a £30,000-a-year boarding school worked their way around internal internet filters to order legal highs and had them delivered to the dorms. Teenage students at Bloxham School, in Oxfordshire, managed to find a loophole in the IT systems allowing them to get onto websites normally banned by staff.

More than 80% of Scottish primary school children don’t think their parents are doing enough to protect them online. In a survey, they told NSPCC Scotland that online privacy was something they felt their parents should be speaking to them about, but aren’t.

RiskIQ, the Digital Footprint Security company, today revealed that it currently monitors millions of Facebook advertiser landing pages per day to detect unauthorized and malicious activity. This intelligence helps Facebook proactively take down online threats and protect its users.

As they get older, most children will probably ask for their own mobile or smartphone, and you’ll want to be able to contact them when they spend more time away from home. Smartphones offer children the ability to be connected to the internet wherever they are, so you need to carefully consider if and when they're ready to go mobile and what you're happy for them to be able to do online.