Staying Safe Online (Age 12+)

Childline’s Online Safety Pages - Articles and advice about everything from online bullying to social media to gaming.

Gaming

Gaming and Mental Health - A helpful blog about how to have a more positive time online, and what to do if gaming becomes too much.

What to look out for whilst gaming - Top tips about how to keep gaming fun and safe, and how to report behaviour if needed.

Social Media

Social Media and Mental Health - A helpful blog about understanding your social media feed, how to block, mute or report other accounts and looking after your privacy.

Sexual Images Online

Sexting and the Law - This page includes information about the law for under 18s (it is against the law to send nudes or sexual videos of you to anyone else. It’s also against the law for anyone to save or share a nude or sexual video of you. Even if it’s a selfie or they’re under 18 too), and how this changes once you are over 18.

Report and Remove - An online tool to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.

Image-based Sexual Abuse - Information about what is also known as ‘revenge porn’, and how to report it.

Pornography

Nudes and porn - A BBC episode from Mimi on a Mission where young people talk about nudes and porn awareness.

ChildLine’s Online Porn Page - A place for young people 12+ to access information about porn.