The UK Department for Education has created online safeguarding requirements that set the standard for child protection. These requirements are intended to ensure that schools provide the necessary online protections to complement their overall safeguarding strategy. There have been three new updates made to the guidance: Changes made to reflect the law (reflecting mandatory Relationship […]
How to Support Student’s Mental Health During Coronavirus Around the world, children are already back in school or are preparing to return soon. They’re facing many changes and challenges from their regular routine. Classroom settings and protective measures vary greatly from country to country. Here is a snapshot of what classrooms look like around the
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What are the Dangers of Social Media for Kids? The internet can be a great place, when explored safely. The abundance of information available at our fingertips can also be deceptive and dangerous without the proper guidance and filters in place. For example, students have access suicide tips, articles, details about suicide attempts, and self-harm videos from across the globe. Within an educational
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Suicide Prevention: 10 Risk Factors You Need to Know Suicide is the second leading cause of death among school age youth. In 2015, approximately 18% of 9th to 12th graders seriously considered suicide with 9% having tried one or more times. Being a teenager is stressful. The combination of everyday stresses such as school, deadlines, and relationships along with the additional burden
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Every business with employees using the internet faces the same issue: how to prevent internet abuse. Businesses are losing money by the minute because of unproductive employees visiting non–business related websites, web threats like malware and phishing penetrating their network, and legal liability issues. The common solution is to rely upon a UTM (unified threat management solution) which provides only basic
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Tips for Using onGuard for Protecting Students Online The pandemic and social distancing continues to be challenging and stressful for everyone, particularly for students. Students are among those most at risk of developing depression and committing suicide. Closures to schools, parks, recreational facilities, after school activities and more because of the pandemic have also increased their feelings of isolation and disrupted their lives. Although teachers and parents are
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How to Combat Violent and Extremist Content Online Originally published July 9, 2019 and updated June 5, 2020. On March 15, 2019, the mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand was live-streamed for a world-wide audience. Videos of the attack continued to be uploaded, despite Facebook’s best efforts to remove this harmful content on the internet months after the shooting.
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What are the Mental Health Issues Affecting Youth? A child’s life can be a never-ending array of ups and downs and heartbreak. While these life phases are inevitable and accepted as a normal part of growing up, there are instances when shifts in mood and behavior may be indicators of a larger, more daunting issue: mental illness. As adults, it may be
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How to Protect Your Small Business Against Cyber Attacks Prefer to listen to this blog post? Click here for the audio version. Small business cyber security has become especially important as being online has become the primary source of communication for businesses with remote workers. According to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), 43% of breach victims were small businesses. By following the suggestions below to be
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How to Identify Mental Illness in Youth With 50-70% of mental health disorders showing up before 18 years of age, it’s important to identify youth who are struggling as early as possible. Mental health is a complex issue that requires a coordinated effort and multilevel approach from parents, schools, health care organizations, digital media outlets, and community outreach. Early detection
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