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Social media can be a great way to explore the online world. You can talk to friends and family, share and watch videos, post photos and join communities. Like with lots of good things, there are also risks. In this game, explore Jacie’s ReelLife profile and try to identify the different risks.

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Parents that decide their child under 13 (or the relevant age in their country/region) is ready to explore YouTube can set up a supervised experience on YouTube linked to their own account. This limits the videos a child can find and watch to a parent-selected content setting. Learn more about supervised accounts.
How to set up a supervised experience for your child on YouTube
Create a supervised account

To create a supervised account, you have 4 options:

1. Create and manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link. If you already manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link, skip to Step 2.

2. Set up access for your child using one of the following options:
Option 1: From the YouTube app on a parent's device

Option 2: On the web at families.youtube.com

1. Go to families.youtube.com

2. Sign in to the Google Account you use as a parent manager of your child's account.

3. Select a child from your family group and follow the next steps.

Option 3: From the Family Link app

1. Sign in to your Family Link app .

2. Select your child.

3. Tap Manage Settings.

4. Tap Settings on YouTube and follow the next steps.

Option 4: From the YouTube app on a child's device

1. Sign in to YouTube on your child's device with their Google Account that is linked to yours.

2. Select GET STARTED and follow the next steps. You'll need to enter your own Google Account password to give permission.

3. Make sure your child's YouTube app is up to date. Sign your child in to YouTube on their computer, Android, or iPhone or iPad, and they can begin their supervised experience.

Change your child's supervised account settings

Content settings

You can change the content setting for your child's supervised account at any time.

1. Sign in to YouTube.

2. Go to your profile picture .

3. Select Settings .

4. Select Parent Settings.

5. Select your child's account you'd like to edit.

6. Under YouTube Settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings".

7. Choose a content setting for your child and choose SELECT to save.

Pause watch history

You can stop new video views from recommending other videos.

Pause search history

You can stop new search terms from recommending other videos.

Clear history

You can clear the watch and search history made with your child's account across all of their linked devices.

Block videos
Blocking YouTube channels on supervised accounts
If you set up a supervised experience for your child's Google Account, you can block channels for them on YouTube. You'll need to use your linked parent account to block channels.

To block a specific channel:

1. Go to the channel page for the YouTube channel you want to block.

2. Go to the "About" tab on the channel page.

3. Click Report user .

4. Select Block channel for kids.This option will only surface if you already manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link.

5. A pop-up may surface alerting you that similar videos may still be available on other channels. Click GOT IT.

6. Select BLOCK next to the child you'd like to block this channel for.

7. BLOCK will change to UNBLOCK, giving you the option to undo the action.

8. Click Done.

Unblock content

If you want to let your child watch a channel you've previously blocked for their supervised account, you can unblock that channel. You can also unblock all previously blocked content for your child. You'll need to use your linked parent account to unblock any content.

To unblock individual channels:

1. Go to the channel page for the YouTube channel you want to unblock.

2. Go to the "About" tab on the channel page.

3. Click Report user .

4. Select Block channel for kids.This option will only surface if you already manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link.

5. A pop-up may surface alerting you that similar videos may still be available on other channels. Click GOT IT.

6. Select UNBLOCK next to the child you'd like to unblock this channel for.

7. UNBLOCK will change to BLOCK, giving you the option to undo the action.

8. Click Done.

To unblock all channels and videos:

1. Make sure you're signed in to YouTube with the Google Account you use as a parent manager of your child's account.

2. Click your profile picture .

3. Click Settings .

4. Click Parent Settings.

5. Select your child.

6. Under GENERAL SETTINGS, click Unblock videos.

7. A pop-up may surface alerting you that all content you've blocked in YouTube and YouTube Kids will be unblocked. Click UNBLOCK.

Learn more about other ways to manage your child's recommendations and search results on YouTube.

If you find something you believe is inappropriate for YouTube, please report it.

Review child's watch history

To review your child's watch history in their supervised account:

1. On your child's device, go to the My Activity page.

2. Select "YouTube History".

3. Select "Manage activity".

4. Scroll to go to all past activity.

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Resources to share details of the Report Abuse in Schools helpline with your school community are now available

The helpline was commissioned by the Department for Education in response to the troubling testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment shared on the Everyone's Invited website. The helpline provides support to pupils who have experienced abuse at school and parents and teachers who are concerned about sexual abuse in education settings.

The NSPCC is encouraging leaders in schools, colleges and other education settings to share the details of the helpline with pupils, parents and teachers.

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"It is absolutely vital that people feel comfortable to raise concerns about child abuse and harassment, including children themselves, and we thank everyone so far who has found the courage to contact the helpline."

Since its launch in April this year, the helpline has answered 353 calls. In total, 65 referrals have been made to an external agency such as the police or social services (up to 16 May). For the other contacts, trained helpline staff provided support and guidance.

Young people and adults can contact Report Abuse in Education on 0800 136 663 or email help@nspcc.org.uk

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By Shiona McCallum, Tom Gerken & Zoe Kleinman

TikTok has been fined £12.7m by the UK's data watchdog for failing to protect the privacy of children.

It estimated TikTok allowed up to 1.4 million UK children aged under 13 to use the platform in 2020.

The video-sharing site used the data of children of this age without parental consent, according to an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

TikTok said it had "invested heavily" to stop under-13s accessing the site.

The ICO said many were able to access the site despite TikTok setting 13 as the minimum age to create an account.

It said that children's data may have been used to track and profile them, and potentially present them with harmful or inappropriate content.

Information commissioner John Edwards said: "There are laws in place to make sure our children are as safe in the digital world as they are in the physical world. TikTok did not abide by those laws.

"As a consequence, an estimated one million under-13s were inappropriately granted access to the platform, with TikTok collecting and using their personal data.

"TikTok should have known better. TikTok should have done better. Our £12.7m fine reflects the serious impact their failures may have had."

Later, he told BBC News TikTok had "taken no steps" to obtain parental consent.

"When you sign up you can be targeted for advertising, you can be profiled, your data contributes to an algorithm which feeds content," he said.

"If you've been looking at content which is not appropriate for your age, that can get more and more extreme.

"It can be quite harmful for people who are not old enough to fully appreciate the implications and to make appropriate choices."

Reduced fine

It is one of the largest fines the ICO has issued.

A TikTok spokesperson told the BBC "our 40,000-strong safety team works around the clock to help keep the platform safe for our community".

"While we disagree with the ICO's decision, which relates to May 2018 - July 2020, we are pleased that the fine announced today has been reduced to under half the amount proposed last year. We will continue to review the decision and are considering next steps."

The watchdog had previously issued TikTok with a " notice of intent" - a precursor to handing down a potential fine - at the time saying TikTok could face a £27m fine for these breaches.

Prof Sonia Livingstone, who researches children's digital rights and experiences at the London School of Economics and Political Science, told the BBC it was "great the ICO is taking action", but feared the fine amount could be "shrugged off as the cost of doing business"."Let's hope TikTok reviews its practices thoroughly and make sure that it respects children's privacy and safety proactively in the future," she said.

Louise Devine has told the BBC she allows her 10-year-old son to use TikTok, though she monitors his usage.

"I know exactly what he's posting and I do monitor who he's talking to. Obviously, I can't monitor what he sees," she said.

"I don't think I would stop him from using it because all his friends are using it and I think that would be quite unfair, however, I do think that if I could have a way of monitoring what he sees that would be better for me."

Trouble for TikTok

TikTok is allowed to appeal against the scale of the fine and has 28 days to make representations. If successful, the ICO could reduce the final amount.

The regulator has a maximum of 16 weeks, from issuing the notice of a proposed fine to delivering its final verdict.

Fines received by the ICO go back to the Treasury.

But there may be further concerns for TikTok as the UK Online Safety Bill, due to be passed in the coming months, requires strict age verification processes by social networks.

It has been suggested firms will be fined for breaches - but a £12.7m fine is a small amount compared to the $80bn (£64bn) revenue reported to have been made by TikTok's parent company ByteDance, a Chinese tech company, in 2022.

And it comes as the platform is already under global scrutiny over security concerns.

Many Western countries are taking measures against TikTok over fears users' data will be shared with the Chinese government.

The app has been banned on government devices in Canada, Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, Taiwan, the UK, the US and for anyone working at the European Commission.

TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew was grilled in Congress over its safety and tried to reassure lawmakers that users' data was secure.

The BBC has advised staff to delete TikTok from work phones.

Additional reporting by Ashleigh Swan.

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Before you submit a report to us, it is essential that you have reported the material to the social media service directly using their online tools, at least 48 hours ago. You can find information on how to do this by clicking on the tabs below.

It is also important to remember that we can only submit reports on specific platforms, about the following 8 harms:

Threats

Impersonation

Bullying & Harassment

Self-harm or Suicide

Online Abuse

Violent Content

Unwanted Sexual Advances

Pornographic Content

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Content warning: This section includes graphic sexual descriptions.

A nude image must include one of the following to be removed:

nude or semi-nude sexual posing

someone nude or semi-nude touching themselves in a sexual way

any sexual activity involving a child

someone hurting someone else sexually

sexual activity that includes animals.

Where possible, it is better if you can upload the original image or video, or a copy of it, rather than a photograph of it on another screen. This helps IWF find the image more accurately.

If you want to report something that isn't a nude image or video to see if it can be taken down, you can see more information from Childline about deleting things shared online here. You can make a report to CEOP, the part of the police who are there to support children and young people online. You can always speak to a Childline counsellor.

Confirming your age with ID gives us more legal powers to remove images from as many places as possible. If you don't have ID or feel comfortable using it, we can still take down images, but from fewer places.

You can use the following ID to confirm your identity using Yoti:

passport or biometric residence permit

driving licence and provisional licence

Young Scot Card (Yoti app only)

CitizenCard (Yoti app only).

If you don't have any of these, you can get a young person's ID card. You'll be able to get this for £5 with the promo code NSPCC5. Make sure you choose 'Yoti CitizenCard' on the first page.

Whatever ID you use, please make sure that it is valid and in-date.

IWF will read all reports within one working day, from Monday to Friday. The time it takes to get your image removed from the internet can be different depending on where the image is hosted.

If the image is on a UK-based website it can often be removed within 2-3 hours. Unfortunately, in some countries it can take longer - sometimes days or weeks. But IWF analysts will always try to make sure it happens as soon as possible.

We'll do our best to let you know once your image has been removed by sending a message to your  Childline locker.

We recommend you check your locker every few days after you make a report. This is so you can see if your image has been removed, and so Childline can let you know if IWF need more information to be able to remove it. Remember, IWF can't contact you directly.

If you need support to help you cope while you're waiting, you can also speak to a Childline counsellor any time.

When you use Report Remove, your image or video is shared with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). They'll work to get your image removed from the internet. See 'Who are the IWF?' to learn about how that happens.

Most of the time, nobody will know that you've made a report and your report won't be shared with anyone else.

If the police already have the image or video you report, then they might investigate what's happened. Only the police can decide if they'll need to tell someone else.

The police might already have your image or video if:

someone has reported it on another website and that website passed it to the police

they're investigating someone who had or has the image or video already (if someone is found to have your image and is breaking the law - regardless of how, it may be included as evidence in a criminal case against that person

someone else reported the image to them directly.

Remember that the police are there to protect you, not to get you into trouble. If the image has been reported somewhere else and you're worried, you can always  speak to a Childline counsellor.

If you have parental controls on your phone your parent or carer might see when you want to download a new app, so they might get a notification if you try to download Yoti and want to know why. To avoid this, use the second option to prove your age (called 'ID verification').

The IWF can remove images that are public or available to anyone on the internet. However, they won't be able to remove images or videos on encrypted networks like WhatsApp, or which are saved on a person's phone or computer.

If you're over 13 and you've made a report without using ID, then there may be some sites the IWF can't take images down from.

If you don't use ID the IWF can help by removing your image or video from most sites. If you do use ID, the IWF can remove from all sites

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK charity, are there to help remove illegal nude images of under 18s posted online.

Once the IWF has confirmed your nude image is against the law and can be removed from the internet they give it a digital fingerprint called a 'hash'. The hash can be used to find your image online even if it has been cropped or slightly changed.

Sharing just the hash with certain trusted companies and organisations, means that technology can be used to find online matches of the image - this is key to trying to stop it appearing in different places on the internet. Even though the hashes and images are shared with UK police, this is so that if they came across the image some other way, they'd know that you also reported it yourself. Report Remove was developed with the full support of the police and no one involved wants to get you into trouble for sharing the image so it can be removed.

Different companies use the hash in different ways. For example, if an illegal image match is found to have been shared by an online account holder, a company may decide to close that person's account as posting illegal images will be against the company's terms and conditions. If your image(s) are found on or are linked to your online user account(s) it may be possible for the company to associate your profile with the images.

The companies that take the hashes trust the Report Remove process, however if they have significant concerns that the person in the image may not be the person who was age verified, they may get in touch with the IWF to raise their concerns.

There are 3 organisations that help you report your image using Report Remove. These are Childline, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and also Yoti if you are 13 or older and choose to prove your age using ID. All of them have a responsibility to keep all of your personal information safe.

1. We'll ask you to choose your age range (under 13, 13-15, 16-17, 18 and over). If you're under 13, you'll go straight to step 3. If you're aged 13 or older, us at Childline will ask you if you have access to ID to prove your age. If you do, you'll be asked to visit Yoti. The only information we will share with Yoti is that you are wanting to prove your age to use Report Remove.

2. Once you prove your age using Yoti, you will come back to Report Remove on Childline. The only information Yoti will share with Childline is confirmation that you're younger or older than 18.

3. We'll then ask you to create or sign in to a Childline account. Then you'll go to the IWF website to share the content you want removed. Childline will only share the information below with IWF:

that you're younger than 18 (either confirmed by Yoti, or that you told us you are younger than 18),

the age range you selected at the start,

a unique number that is created when you use Report Remove.

4. After your report has been passed to the IWF, they will tell Childline if they were able to work to take the images or video down from the internet, and why. This is so Childline can let you know what happened. IWF may also tell Childline some information about what you reported, to help them know how best to support you and keep you safe. IWF will never share an image or video that you report with Childline.

Information you give to Childline
Any information you give Childline will always be treated carefully and in line with our  Privacy Policy. This means that any information you give us as part of Report Remove will only be used to help the IWF review your report and to keep you safe. This will include the age range that you select and a unique number that's created when you go onto the IWF website. We will not share any of your information with Yoti.
Information you give to IWF
The only information you will give to the IWF are the images, videos or URLs you report. There is space to add information such as where the image or video is on a webpage.

They will process this in line with their privacy policy.

Nude images and videos that IWF decide are illegal may be kept by the IWF for up to 2 years. This is because there is an agreement with the Police and CPS (Crime Prosecution Service), called a 'Memorandum of Understanding' (MOU). Illegal images are given a hash (a string of numbers that are like a digital fingerprint). The hash is shared with organisations such as technology companies who host online content, so that they can look for the image and take it down. The actual image is not shared with these companies. The image and the hash are shared with the police who store it on their Child Abuse Image Database. Any images or videos that they decide are not illegal may be kept for a maximum of 6 months for quality checking and any follow up questions. They will then be deleted. Sometimes, even if it's decided that the content isn't illegal, IWF can share the content URL with some industry members to see if they can take the content down.

If you report a URL (link to a webpage), and choose not to prove your age using ID, IWF will still check to see if the content is something they can take action on. If so IWF may share the URL with South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL), who are a charity who help people who have had intimate images of them shared online. SWGfL will never view the content on a URL that is shared with them. SWGfL send a notice to internet companies that host the webpage you reported, to tell them to take it down. This is because IWF can only send a notice to companies to take a specific webpage down when it is confirmed it is of a child. SWGfL can also send notice to take down content, but they do not need to prove it is of a child. This helps get your images or videos from even more places.

Childline will never see what pictures, videos or URLs you share with the IWF. The only information the IWF shares with Childline apart from your case number is whether or not they could take down your images or videos, and why, so we can let you know, as well as information about the image or video that you reported that will help Childline to support you and keep you safe.

Information you give to Yoti
You can choose to use Yoti to confirm your age if you're over 13. This may involve taking a selfie, so Yoti know it is you who are proving your age, and uploading a picture of some ID. Any personal data you send Yoti - like your photo, date of birth or address - is scrambled with a high level of encryption so that even if it was stolen, no one could use it to identify you. The only information Yoti shares with Childline is confirmation that you're under or over 18.

You can see Yoti's privacy policy here, and more information about their age portal here, which is what is used in Report Remove to prove your age.

If you're using the Yoti app, Yoti may use the selfie, month and year of birth you add to the Yoti app to improve its age estimation technology. You can opt out from this in the More> My Data> Biometric consent menu of the app.

There are lots of ways to get help with your report:

if you're having problems with Yoti, you can contact them directly in the app.

if you need any support with making your report send a message to Childline with the title 'Report Remove'.

Childline counsellors are always here for you and want to help. And you can  talk to them  about anything you're going through.
I have a technical issue, what should I do?

Try using your default browser and close private browsing if you're using the Yoti app.

See if you can log in to your locker and send an email to Childline explaining your problem and the team will be able to help.

Make sure the ID you're using is valid and in-date (not expired).

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We take reports of child sexual abuse images hosted on the open internet. When an image is sent within a messaging app with end-to-end encryption (such as WhatsApp), we can't access this information.

We take reports of images showing erotic posing; solo masturbation by a child; non-penetrative or penetrative sexual activity involving children or both children and adults; or sadism or penetration of or by an animal.

We take reports of non-photographic images of child sexual abuse, such as computer-generated images. The images we can take action on must be of children, pornographic, grossly offensive, and focus on a child's genitals or depict sexual activity involving or in the presence of a child.

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Online harms bill - read about it and have your say !

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You can also watch the below video to get all the information and share your own thoughts on the Online Safety Bill by taking the above survey. Your opinion matters and we'd love to hear what you have to say.

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China's 'midnight patrol' cracks down on young gamers

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It might seem like the news effects everyone equally. On TV or in a newspaper, journalists and editors decide the kinds of stories and reports that appear, meaning that everyone who watches or reads these news sources will be seeing the same thing. But when we see news stories on social media, the experience is completely different.

Radzi Chinyanganya from BBC My World looks at who decides what makes the news, from offline to online sources.

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Live My Digital for students: Identity & Self-esteem

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To find what you're after, a search engine will scan its index of webpages for content related to your search.

A search engine makes this index using a program called a 'web crawler'. This automatically browses the web and stores information about the pages it visits.

Every time a web crawler visits a webpage, it makes a copy of it and adds its URL to an index. Once this is done, the web crawler follows all the links on the page, repeating the process of copying, indexing and then following the links. It keeps doing this, building up a huge index of many webpages as it goes.

Some websites stop web crawlers from visiting them. These pages will be left out of the index, along with pages that no-one links to.

The information that the web crawler puts together is then used by search engines. It becomes the search engine's Every webpage recommended by a search engine has been visited by a web crawler.

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Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

The government should make social media firms enforce age limits to help tackle their impact on children's mental health, actress Kate Winslet has said.

Speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she said parents feel "utterly powerless" about how to help their children navigate social media.

Winslet said security checks could be more rigorous and those in power "should step up" to protect children.

She was speaking ahead of the launch of her new Channel 4 film I Am Ruth.

The feature-length drama sees Winslet playing opposite her real-life daughter Mia Threapleton as the mother of a teenager whose mental health begins to suffer as she becomes increasingly consumed by the pressures of social media.

Winslet said the decision to focus on children's mental health followed a conversation with the film's creator Dominic Savage about how parents can help "when they can clearly see there's a problem".

But she said that the drama had to be about more than a child obsessed with their phone.

It had to cover "what's actually going on with that phone, how it impacts on their self-esteem, how it impacts on eating habits, their mental state in terms of thinking about things like self-harm," Winslet said.

In the two-hour drama, to be shown on Channel 4 on Thursday 8 December, Winslet plays Ruth who is a single mother of two, including 17-year-old Freya.

The film shows Freya becoming less communicative and falling behind at school as she retreats further into herself as her relationship with social media becomes increasingly destructive.

The world of social media is "frightening to parents because we don't really know what's there", Winslet said.

"We don't know really what's going on in their friendship groups anymore because so much of it is actually built on phones, inside phones.

"This world that you can burrow deeper and deeper into it, and it becomes darker and trickier and much, much harder for children to navigate.

"I think because people, young children, are having phones at a much earlier age, they're able to access things that emotionally they're just not equipped or sophisticated enough to know how to process."

Asked whether she thought there should be more legal regulation of social media, Winslet said she struggled with social media and its impact on teenage mental health.

"I do wish that our government would crack down on it. I do wish that there would be certain platforms that were banned before a certain age. I wish that security checks would be much more rigorous," she said.

She said there should be "more protection and accountability" because parents "are left flailing".

"I just think that the people who know that they could do better to protect our children should just be doing that. Whoever those people are, they know who they are, they should just step up and do better," she said.

Winslet's comment come as the government is accused of watering down legislation aimed at regulating internet content.

In the past week, ministers have dropped plans from the Online Safety Bill which would require technology firms to take down legal but harmful material.

Ian Russell, the father of teenager Molly Russell, who ended her life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online, said the bill had been watered down and the decision might have been made for political reasons to help it pass more quickly.

In a statement, Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan told BBC News that "unregulated social media is hurting our children and it must end".

She added that the "strengthened Online Safety Bill" she is bringing back to Parliament "will allow parents to see and act on the dangers sites pose to young people".

"Young people will be safeguarded, criminality stamped out and adults given control over what they see and engage with online," Ms Donelan said.

See Laura Kuenssberg's interview with Kate Winslet in full this Sunday, 4 December

Also on the show is cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi and Labour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson

Watch Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One and on BBC iPlayer from 09:00 GMT

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