Helping your child stay safe online

This video aims to help you as parents and carers to understand the digital spaces disabled children and young people use every day, exploring both the benefits technology can bring for them, and the challenges it can create.

We’ll cover current online safety issues, how to encourage age- and ability-appropriate conversations about online safety, setting healthy boundaries around technology use, and how to respond if something goes wrong.

What you’ll need

Have any device handy so you can follow along.

Join an online workshop

Family Fund also hold a series of online workshops, where an experienced trainer will talk you through the parental controls and restrictions on your device.

These are very friendly and informal, designed for parents and carers of disabled children. You’ll need a device to access the internet to take part in workshop activities, and to get the most out of this session, joining the call on a second device such as a smart phone, tablet or computer would really help.

Are you a professional rather than parent or carer?

Whilst our resources have been created with parents and carers in mind, we welcome everyone to use these videos if they can help you in the workplace.

If you’d like to discuss further any way that Family Fund could support you in the workplace, get in touch with our friendly team on: [email protected]