SAFER INTERNET DAY
11TH FEB 2025
Making the internet a great and safe place for everyone
The UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC), established in 2011, is a leading global partnership helping to make the internet a great and safe place for everyone. UKSIC have created Safer Internet Day 2025taking place on the February 11th, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘.
UKSIC provide support and services to children and young people, adults facing online harms, and professionals working with children. Formed of three charities, Childnet, Internet Watch Foundation and SWGfL, they work together to identify threats and harms online and then create and deliver critical advice, resources, education and interventions that help keep children and young people, and adults, safe.
Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Each year they cover an online issue or theme that speaks about the things young people are seeing and experiencing online. Created in consultation with young people across the UK, this year, Safer Internet Day will be focusing on the issue of scams online and for young people, how to protect themselves and others, as well as what support is available to them.
Over the years, Safer Internet Day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar and is now celebrated in approximately 170 countries worldwide.
This Safer Internet Day, they will assess the real scale of this issue and allow young people to share their experiences and ideas on how to tackle the problem. They will build on the important work being done to raise awareness of topical issues and they’ll also consider the future of scams - answering questions such as:
• How is changing technology like generative AI going to impact the approach of scammers?
• What role can the government and internet industry take to tackle this threat?
• And what changes would young people like to see to help protect themselves moving forward?
Educational Resources
They have created a range of resources to help you deliver sessions for Safer Internet Day, whether you are a school, nursery, youth group, library, police service, or wider. These educational resources have been specifically designed to support educators in delivering messages about their campaign theme of scams online.
Safer Internet Day supplies free resources for use with 3-7, 7-11, 11-14 and 14-18 year olds, with each resource pack containing presentation slides, resources and activities.
There are also useful resources and advice about key social media platforms and apps, with guides for parents and safety tools to use.
Useful resources
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