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E-safety Advice for Families – Smartphones

One in three 8-year-olds in Britain own a smartphone 📱 and that proportion rises to more than 90% by the time children reach 12 📈 This concerted increase – driven by factors both personal (blossoming independence) and practical (the transition to secondary school) – makes it all the more valuable for young people to know how to use such devices safely.

Indeed, more than half of parents (52%) surveyed by Ofcom admitted to worrying about their child being bullied via their mobile phone – and with hazards like scams, screen addiction and inappropriate content to consider, that’s far from the only risk around. This guide pulls together some simple but solid smartphone safety tips.

Smartphone Safety Tips for Young People

According to Ofcom, 69% of under-18s use a smartphone as their main method of going online. Additionally, 49% of children use them for online gaming – putting smartphones only behind consoles (59%) as the device of choice for playing games on. Most people won’t require such statistical evidence, however, to acknowledge the huge importance of phones to young people.

Given that Santa’s recent visit is likely to have bestowed smartphones on an even greater number of young people, it’s a particularly opportune moment to ensure that children are able to use their handsets responsibly – and, above all, safely. From passcodes to parental controls, and from screen time to scams, our #WakeUpWednesday guide has the essential advice.

Grab our guide below!National Online Safety

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This guide is from National Online Safety.

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Family Matters Courses – “Are you ready for 2024?!”

Please see below information from York Family Matters about their courses and events starting in the new year.

Where has the time gone?! 2023 has flown by! How can it nearly be 2024 already?

Apparently ‘time flies when you’re having fun’. At Family Matters York we do hope that you and your family have had some fun times over this last year. We hope you have been able to chat together, laugh together and make memories together.

As we look forward to 2024, we trust that it will bring you more opportunities to enjoy your family. But, we also know that family life is a real mix of ups and downs. We would love to help support you and your family in 2024, to help make the ‘ups’ even better and the ‘downs’ more manageable. Dealing with family life can be both joyful and stressful, exciting and scary, magical and unpredictable….all at the same time! Let us help you in this coming year to handle family life with more confidence, feeling better equipped to manage all that family life brings.

Sign up TODAY for our FREE parenting and couples support. Get those dates in your diary ready for 2024!

Have a fantastic Christmas & New Year with your family

See you in 2024!

Love from the Family Matters York team xFamily Matters York

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Wednesday mornings
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Friday 2nd February
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@ St Pauls Church, Holgate Road Acomb, York, England, YO24 4BF 

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E-safety Advice for Families at Christmas

Families may find the following guides helpful over the festive season. Whether your family chooses a tech-free Christmas, or are using new devices, we wish you all a very happy, and safe, Christmas. 

12 Top Tips for Children and Young People to Enjoy a Tech-Free Christmas

With Christmas right around the corner, millions of families are excitedly anticipating the chance to spend some quality time with each other over the festive season. When everyone’s engrossed in their phones or glued to their games consoles, however, genuinely meaningful moments with loved ones can often be difficult to orchestrate. 

Our Christmas #WakeUpWednesday guide will lend a hand: providing some advice on helping young people to set aside their devices for a while and live in the moment. Even if going full tech cold turkey feels unrealistic, implementing just a few of these tips could still decrease the amount of screen time in your home this festive season – enabling everyone to make the most of it.

Top Tips for Setting up Parental Controls on New Devices

At this time of year, it’s highly possible that you have a new phone, games console or other digital device stashed somewhere at home, ready to be unwrapped. Many parents also prefer to place some protective measures on those gifts – to keep their child shielded from potential #OnlineSafety risks – while others would like to, but aren’t sure where to begin.

The guide below shepherds you through the process of establishing parental controls on new internet-enabled devices, from smartphones to laptops to consoles. Simply find the device in question and read on to find out what options you have and how to enable them – letting children enjoy their shiny new gadget, without so much of the worry over where it might lead them.

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These guides are from National Online Safety.