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Children and young people in the UK discuss their views and experienes of internet safety with Professor Tanya Byron, Clinical Psychologist, two years after the Byron Report was published.

Thoughtful analysis of the Byron Report, provided by Anne Collier of Netfamily News.

51-page progress report two years after the Byron Review [Mar 2010].

Published 27th March 2008. On 6th September 2007, the Prime Minister asked Dr. Tanya Byron to conduct an independent review looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games."

You can catch the excellent analysis of Dr. Tanya Byron's work at Anne Collier's web site [NetFamilyNews]. See: http://www.netfamilynews.org/

From the UK Home Office Task Force: Best Practices for the providers of social networking and other user interactive services. Download the full Report.

The first UK Social Networking Guidance provides advice for industry, parents and children about how to stay safe online. This has been developed by a taskforce of representatives from industry, charity and law enforcement agencies including Vodafone, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).

Pupils given a greater degree of freedom to surf the internet at school are less vulnerable to online dangers in the long-term, inspectors say. "Managed" online systems were more successful than "locked" ones at safeguarding pupils' safety, they said. The inspectors' research was commissioned in response to a report by Dr Tanya Btron, which assessed the risks children faced when using the internet and video games.

I blog about pupils' use of interent, safe searching and the read/write web