The digital age has changed what it means to be a child. There are some things that children don't want to see online and that you, as a parent, would rather they didn't. Parental controls can help you protect your children from internet baddies when they're online.

Weapons & Violence

27% of 7-11 year olds said they'd seen something unpleasant of hurtful online in the last year ¹

Crime

2014 saw a 71% rise in online banking fraud ²

Pornography

1 in 4 children said they had seen online porn by the age of 12 ³

There are a number of parental controls tools you can use:

• Broadband providers offer the ability to set network level parental controls on your home broadband. They restrict access to particular categories of website, filtering our inappropriate content like pornography and violence, limit access times, and even allow you to block individual websites. They work on every device that's connected to your broadband network
• Most gaming consoles, mobile phones, tablets, and even smart TV’s will also allow you to set parental controls on each device 
• You can set safe search and look for safety mode settings on operating system software, search engines, social networking sites and video sharing sites like YouTube.