eSafety education
National Child Protection Week
National Child Protection Week starts on Sunday, 4 September so be sure to mark it in your calendar and get your school community involved.
eSafety will support this important initiative with a special virtual classroom for middle to upper primary students and professional learning webinar sessions.
Register your class for the Be an eSafe kid: be safe, be supportive virtual classroom and keep reading for information on eSafety’s new teacher professional learning webinar.
Parents urged to watch for signs of cyberbullying
With most kids back at school, the eSafety Commissioner is urging parents to look out for signs of cyberbullying.
Reports of cyberbullying to eSafety are up 80% this year compared with the first six months of 2021.
Of particular concern are social media challenges being shared by young people. While these online challenges can be fun, they can also be used to humiliate and shame others.
If you notice a young person in your care becoming anxious, withdrawn, secretive or not wanting to be around their friends, they may be experiencing online abuse.
Read the media release to learn more.
Critical incidents professional learning
As educators, you may need to respond to and report abuse or distressing content online. These 'critical incidents' could involve harms such as cyberbullying, fight videos, grooming, suicide or pornography.
eSafety’s new professional learning webinar Responding and reporting: critical online incidents in school settings, starts on Wednesday, 3 August 2022 and is free to attend.
This webinar supports wellbeing coordinators, school leaders and anyone involved in managing critical online incident response in the school community. It also includes steps on collecting evidence if you need to make a report to eSafety.
New parent webinar posters to share
eSafety runs free webinars for parents and carers of school-aged children.
Share the details for Term 3 by displaying these handy posters at your school or including them in your next communication to parents.
Popular apps
Learn about TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube and help your children stay safe online.Online sexual harassment and image-based abuse
Help teens deal with online sexual harassment and image-based abuse.
If you would like to learn more about how we are supporting families to be safer online, visit esafety.gov.au
