Online Safety Guides
Free, practical tools designed to help parents, carers, educators and awareness teams protect children online. These guides explain digital risks, spot warning signs and provide step-by-step advice you can use right away.
📚 Resources & Guides Overview
A simple overview explaining what each Be Frank – Be Fearless guide covers and how they can be used by families, schools, youth workers and awareness teams.
It summarises topics such as online safety, grooming awareness, reporting concerns and practical digital safety steps used across all guides.
Ideal for anyone wanting to quickly understand the full set of tools and how they can be shared or used in real-life safeguarding settings.
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📘 Online Safety for Families
A quick and practical guide for parents and carers. It explains device rules, healthy online habits and simple steps for checking chats, friends lists and privacy settings at home.
Designed for busy families — perfect for sticking on the fridge or using as a talking point with children about safe online behaviour.
- Encourages open conversations about online life.
- Supports regular device and privacy checks.
- Builds confidence for parents managing online safety.
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📱 Android Safety Guide
A practical guide helping parents understand Android phones, Google Family Link, app downloads, privacy settings, location sharing, screen time controls and online safety features.
Designed for families who want to safely manage Android devices while helping children develop healthy digital habits.
- Google Family Link setup.
- App permissions and privacy controls.
- Location sharing and screen time management.
🍎 iPhone Safety Guide
A practical guide helping parents understand iPhone privacy settings, Screen Time, Family Sharing, app downloads, location sharing and communication safety.
Perfect for parents who want to confidently manage iPhones while encouraging safe and responsible use.
- Apple Screen Time controls.
- App Store and purchase restrictions.
- Privacy, messaging and location settings.
💬 Anonymous Chat Apps Safety Guide
A guide explaining the risks associated with anonymous chat apps, random video chat services and platforms that connect children with strangers.
It covers privacy settings, grooming risks, image requests, moving conversations off-platform and how parents can respond safely.
- Understanding anonymous chat apps.
- Recognising grooming red flags.
- Blocking, reporting and staying safe online.
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📝 Digital Awareness Checklist
A printable checklist covering device safety, social media awareness, messaging, privacy settings, app safety, password security and reporting concerns — ideal for families, schools and youth groups.
This checklist helps adults and young people review digital habits together and take practical steps to reduce online risks.
- Perfect for awareness sessions and workshops.
- Supports conversations about digital responsibility.
- Easy to print and share.
👉 Download PDF – Digital Awareness Checklist
⚠️ How to Report Concerns Safely
A step-by-step guide explaining how to preserve evidence, report harmful content or behaviour, and safely escalate concerns to CEOP, IWF, police and other safeguarding services.
Designed for parents, carers, professionals and older teens who may need to respond quickly and safely to online risks.
- Clear actions to take before reporting.
- Links to UK reporting routes and helplines.
- Guidance on staying safe while raising a concern.
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🔎 Spot the Signs of Online Grooming
This guide explains common red-flag behaviours used in grooming — secrecy, fast emotional closeness, gifts, requests for photos, pressure, manipulation and moving conversations to private apps.
It helps parents, carers and young people understand how grooming often starts and how to recognise early warning signs.
- Identifies early grooming patterns clearly.
- Encourages safe early conversations.
- Supports reporting and protective action.
👉 Download PDF – Spot the Signs of Online Grooming