Keeping Your Child Safe

If you’re concerned about your child, please call the Multi Agency Screening Team on 01422 393336 during normal working hours. When MAST are unavailable, you can call the Out of Hours Emergency Duty Team on 01422 288000.

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Safeguarding Children and Young People

The Calderdale Safegaurding Children website provides information and guidance for you as a parent/carer.

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NSPCC

The NSPCC provides help and support to thousands of parents, professionals and families.

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Online Safety

Top Ten Online Safety Tips

The Calderdale SEND Reference Group created 10 podcasts about top online safety tips for children and young people to keep them safe online. To listen to the podcast, click here.

“We felt as a group this is a crucial thing in this day and age as more children and young people have access to the internet and social media.”

Social Media and Teenagers : A Practical Approach

Is social media damaging the mental health of young people? The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust has produced this leaflet looking behind the headlines.

NSPCC

Whether you are an online expert or you’re not sure where to start, the NSPCC’s tools and advice will help you keep your child safe. Whether you want to set up parental controls, adjust privacy settings or get advice on social networks, experts from the free O2 and NSPCC helpline are available to help: 0808 800 5002.

Parent Zone

This resource offers information to help parents understand the digital world and raise resilient children.

Thinkuknow

Thinkuknow is an education programme from the National Crime Agency’s CEOP Command to keep children and young people safe.

UK Safer Internet Centre 

This resource provides advice for parents about responding to their children viewing upsetting online content. This includes advice about blocking content and details of other sources of information and support for children and parents.

Staying Safe Online in the School Holidays

For many children and young people school holiday time will be spent using the internet to keep in touch with school friends, catch up with the latest apps and online trends, and play their favourite games. This blog looks at ways in which parents and carers can help keep their children safe as they start to spend more time online.

Online Grooming

Ramsdens Solicitors have created a resource for parents and carers about online grooming to help raise awareness about the ever growing issue of keeping children and young people safe online.