School Life

• Childline delivering over 50 suicide counselling sessions a day
• A healthy influence? Children’s exposure to appearance-changing products online
• Almost all young Brits use AI
• Is your child influenced by toxic content?
• CEOP and Lucy Faithfull Foundation: Support for Young People
• New Parental Control Videos
• AI, homework and friendship: Why more children are opening up to chatbots
• Lemon8 App
• Weaponized loneliness: Understanding a hybrid threat to young people globally
• From TikTok to AI: Changing the Face of Influence
• Understanding girls’ & boys’ online experiences
• Navigating puberty and sexual development
• Help your child beat exam stress
• Why Teens Self-Harm: What They’re Trying to Feel (or Not Feel)
• Tired, Wired and Falling Behind: The Truth About Teen Sleep
• What I Wish My Parents or Carers Knew
• Children Often Overlooked as Domestic Abuse Victims
• Popular Apps & Games – Parent Guide

• New YouTube feature for parents
• NSPCC calls for tech companies to block child sexual abuse images in real time
• Hub of helpful resources for adult survivors of child sexual abuse
• Com networks
• Screen time soars as real-world connection declines for UK children
• Effective revision and study skills
• Children and Phone Safety – NSPCC
• New kids’ online safety website launched as part of government campaign
• Online trends encouraging violence
• Boys in the Digital Wild
• WhatsApp Now Allows Under 13’s
• What is LooksMaxxing
• The Media Literacy Parents’ Study (2026) – YouGov
• TikTok won’t protect DMs

Contents:
• Instagram – Disappearing Images and Videos
• Government publishes plans to tackle youth crime
• Viral Trend causing severe burns to children
• The Big Future survey – have your say!
• Supporting your child through exam stress
• What you need to know: Minecraft
• Misogyny
• Omoggle the New Omegle?
• How to Talk to Children if they see Traumatic Events
• ADHD and Emotional Overload: Understanding What’s Really Going On
• Why language matters: why we talk about ‘safe’ rather than ‘trusted’ adults
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026
• Exposing Nudification Platforms
• Mental Health First Aid Kit from Childline
• Childline counselling sessions about online child sexual abuse rise by 36%
• For Parents – Steam Parental Controls

• Emotion regulation in children and young people
• Understanding eating disorders in children
• Child mental health: anxiety
• Domestic abuse
• AI-generated child sexual abuse images
• Instagram AI content PG13
• Understanding the impact of news on children’s wellbeing
• AI girlfriends and boyfriends – should we be worried?
• Educate Against Hate SEND resources for parents
• Talking about consent with children
• Extra-strong nicotine pouches packaged like children’s sweets
• Anger management in children: how parents can help
• ‘6-7’: what does it mean?
• App safety settings
• Rise in demand for help with children’s violent behaviour towards parents
• Discord (age verification service) hacked
• Roblox age estimation
• A Guide to navigating social media safely

• Game safe guide – helping young people game safely online
• 5 Ways Young People Can Cope With Stress
• Is Adult Content Affecting Young People’s Understanding of Sex and Relationships?
• The Lost Boys: Understanding the Crisis Facing Young Men
• What Is ‘Looksmaxxing’ – And Why Parents Should Be Aware
• Roblox introduces new parental controls to support families
• Unsafe and Unheard: Spotlight on Child-to-Parent Violence
• Children’s Commissioner calls for immediate ban of AI apps that enable ‘deepfake’ sexual abuse of children
• Hidden Folders & Private Spaces in Apps: What Parents Should Know
• Child mental health: anger issues
• Understanding Banter
• Children’s views on restricting social media
• How to report online harm
• The importance of taking suicidal thoughts in young people seriously
• People ‘will find a way’ to harmful content – teens

• What is incel?
• The history of incel
• Incel ideology
• Categories of incel
• ‘Pilling’ and belief in the Incel worldview
• Incel hierarchy
• Incel terminology
• Spotting the Signs
• Misogyny
• Toxic masculinity
• The manosphere
• Manosphere – The Link
• Unhealthy relationship traits:
• Supporting boys and young men – having difficult conversations

• What do we mean by safeguarding at MHS?
• Childline’s new campaign, Behind the Screen
• Tips to promote positive body image
• Prevent and countering extremism in young people
• Home Office figures reveal a record number of children being referred to the Prevent programme
• Talking to your teenager about radicalisation
• Child mental health: anxiety
• Discussing Distressing News Events With Children
• What is Doomscrolling?
• Self-harm Awareness
• Cygnet parent programme

• charcter.ai
• Instagram – Algorithm Reset
• Resources to support regulation, connection and rest during December
• Roblox Major Safety Updates
• Video game helping vulnerable youngsters ‘feel less alone’
• Safeguarding Awareness for Parents & Carers – England Football Learning
• Updated Resource – So You Got Naked Online
• SNUS – what is it and are you aware of the dangers?
• NSFW and NSFW AI image generators
• A parents and carers guide to giving tech gifts this Christmas

• YouTube – Parental Controls for Teens
• Instagram boosts privacy and parental control on teen accounts
• Android phones – school time setting
• The ABC online safety checklist
• Explicit WhatsApp groups
• Teen Boys and Body Image Challenges
• Parental Supervision – How Far is Too Far?
• Gaming tips for parents of neurodivergent children
• The evolution of sextortion
• Can we live without our phones?
• Smartphone-Free Childhood?
• New Study: Most Teens Use AI, But Parents Are in the Dark
• Talking to younger children about mental health
• NHS 111 providing crisis mental health support
• A helpful exercise in managing worries
• Vapes being spiked with spice
• What is spice?

• Find the fake
• Stronger guidance and controls needed to protect children from screen time, Education Committee finds
• Coded companions: young people’s relationships with AI chatbots
• Summertime Screen Time
• TikTok launches media literacy hub to help users spot misinformation
• X (Twitter) and Vimeo allow adult content
• Family Pairing
• Be Challenge Aware
• My child is gaming with Strangers – What should I do?

• Wellbeing apps for kids
• GCSE pupils targeted by ‘manipulative’ exam scams
• Tech firms told to hide ‘toxic’ content from children
• Review and activate parental controls, safety and privacy settings
• NCA issues urgent warning about ‘sextortion’
• For Parents – What is Palworld?
• From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces
• The rise of the aggro-rithm
• Encountering violent online content starts at primary school
• Surrey County Council Additional Needs and Disabilities Update April
• The Dirty Dozen List 2024
• Government to Criminalise the Creation of Synthetic Sexual Content

• Support for parents from the NSPCC
• The Children’s Commissioner’s view on artificial intelligence (AI) 
• Report from the BBC – Offenders confused about the ethics of AI Child Abuse
• Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) report on the Exploitation of under 10s increasing
• NSPCC – Better Safe campaign
• Meta tool to block nude images in teens’ private messages
• New intimate image abuse laws come into effect
• Social Media advice and guidance
• What is Doxing? A guide for Parents, Carers and Professionals
• RCPsych – “We cannot allow childhood mental illness to become the new norm”
• Navigating the risks of Saltburn

• R;pple Suicide Prevention Charity
• Empowering vulnerable children in a connected world
• Rise in sextortion of boys
• WhatsApp introduces feature to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers
• Helping parents and carers understand the sexual behaviour of teenagers
• Using AI Chatbots for good
• Online ADHD support group for parents of children and young people
• Little Digital Helps Toolkit
• “I don’t know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness”
• Why do Children use Anonymous Apps
• Elfbar: Top vape firm drops sweet flavours over appeal to kids
• Dangerous online trend – ‘chroming challenge’
• UK school pupils ‘using AI to create indecent imagery of other children’
• Possession of nitrous oxide now illegal
• Christmas devices
• Children’s understanding of domestic abuse
• Online misogyny and image-based abuse

• Youth vaping
• Video – Capture: Who’s Looking After the Children?
• Let’s talk about Furries
• Help! My child wants to play games that are too old for them
• Snapchat – AI Chatbot
• Ask for ANI – new postcode checker
• A fifth of teenagers watch pornography frequently and some are addicted
• ‘Professional adverts’ for county lines ensnaring children on Instagram and Snapchat
• New TALK resource from the IWF
• Gaslighting information from Relate
• TikTok sets 60-minute daily screen time limit for under-18s
• Supporting young people to take down nudes shared online
• TikTok and reality shifting
• What parents and carers need to know about OFCOM’s Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2023
• Parasocial Relationships
• Online safety shareables

• SWGfL Release Online Reporting Hub
• #CutOffTheCatfish
• Recognising Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse
• Livestreaming Staying safe online when broadcasting to an audience
• Gaming vernacular
• Explicit Images Challenge on TikTok 
• Snapchat ‘fueling record rise’ in child abuse image offences, police data shows 
• JusTalk app
• Young people keen to educate parents on online safety
• What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions
• The Emoji Dictionary 
• The Pupil Safeguarding Review
• TikTok is crushing YouTube in annual study of kids’ and teens’ app usage
• UK ban on laughing gas sale or possession poised to go ahead
• 10 Ways Gaming Can Support Positive Outcomes
• Children as young as nine ‘exposed to online pornography’ 

• Talking about difficult topics
• TikTok – Quack Health Tips
• Instagram – Muting Undesired Content
• Fortnite Parental Controls
• The Impact of Dual-Screening
• A Review of Harmful Content Online
• Children See Children Do
• Between Us App
• ChatGPT – Friend or Foe: What Parents & Educators Need To Know

• Does video gaming have a positive impact on cognition?
• Step by step parental control guides by Internet Matters 
• County lines
• Being Real on TikTok Now
• Epic Games adds for-kids accounts in Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys
• For Parents – Create a Google Account
• Risky Online Behaviour Almost Normalised
• Useful Links for Parents
• The Risks of Airdrop and Nearby Share
• Safeguarding Awareness for Parents & Carers (Football Association)
• Reducing Parental Conflict – free resources and apps
• Grandparents’ guide to online safety

• ‘Poisonous’: how WhatsApp is exposing UK school children to bullying and harmful content 
• WhatsApp – the risks and how to keep your child safe
• Domestic abuse. What it is and why it matters.
• Early help for families
• Worry button video
• Overwatch 2
• What you need to know about BeReal
• Influencers cannot always respond 
• A young person’s view of pirated Content
• Helping children with SEND to have positive experiences online
• Dangerous online chat room – Omegle
• Expert tips to help you talk about cyberbullying with your child
• Sharenting: The risks involved and protecting children’s privacy
• Snapchat family centre 
• Parental control apps
• Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England, 2021 (NHS Digital)
• Free online guides for parents

• Communication Safety in Messages – Apple’s Latest Feature 
• Snapchat Meet Up
• Instagram’s Latest Updates
• Social media harms
• Free online guides for families in Surrey
• Online Abuse and Inappropriate Content
• Tackle Child Abuse nationwide campaign
• Everything You Need to Know about ‘Finstas’
• Instagram: Video selfies trial to verify age of teens
• Is sharing nudes just harmless flirting?
• YouTube Parental controls
• Handle with Scare
• Discord Security Settings
• ‘How is that a real job?’ Parents struggle to keep up with children’s career options
• Online safety glossary

• What is the Metaverse?
• ParentWise – A helping hand for parents and carers
• What is Reddit? — What parents need to know
• The dark side of the Metaverse
• Romeo and Juliet: The world changes. Children don’t.
• Influencers & eating disorders
• What is Yubo?
• Home truths – a short video
• New CEOP website for 11-18 year olds
• Coming Soon – Instagram – parent supervision tools
• Teenage social media use linked to less life-satisfaction for some
• YouTube – Parent Allowlisting
• What parents need to know about NFTs

• Mindworks Surrey; helpful phone numbers for children, young people and parents
• Online Safety Trends, Risks, and Threats for 2022
• Teens who are “addicted” to TikTok experience worse depression and anxiety, and in turn, reduced working memory capacity
• Slender Man
• What is Locket?
• Boys get Anorexia too
• Young Minds: Advice for young people feeling down and unable to cope
• Safer Internet Day resources for parents and carers
• One minute guides to Early Help
• Roblox: A Parents’ Guide to Protecting Children from Harmful Content
• Online safety: legal but harmful content

• Talking to your child about online sexual harassment: A guide for parents
• Bullying Beyond the Classroom – A short story through the eyes of a young person
• Outspoken Sex Ed.
• Christmas Social Media Safety Cards
• The Dark Web – advice for parents
• MHS Reporting system for pupils is now live
• Podcast: Self-harm & Self-Injury – ‘Autism a parents guide’
• New ID check plan to block children from porn sites
• 10 top tips for parents in handling boys’ and young men’s mental health
• Poppy Playtime – Warning
• Grandparents guide to online safety
• Young people can request Google remove images from search results
• DITTO magazine
• How to keep children safe while gaming this Christmas

• Evil Santa hoax
• Did you see that coming?
• #AskTheAwkward
• Helping my autistic child stay safe online
• How to protect children from online harm
• Do you know a deepfake when you see one?
• Deepfakes now part of bullying in schools
• Family Learning for parents and carers
• What parents need to know about Squid Game