While your children are learning from home, they are away from the online safety and security services provided by Network for Learning (N4L) at school.

So together with N4L and Netsafe, the Ministry of Education have launched www.switchonsafety.co.nz - a free way to block the worst of the web for students and teachers.

I am sharing this website so that you can follow the instructions to set up your child’s device for safer connectivity while they learn from home if you wish to utilise them.

Remember, no technical solution is a silver bullet. I suggest that you complement Switch-on-Safety with Digital Citizenship Toolkits provided by Netsafe https://www.netsafe.org.nz/the-kit/resources-to-support-families-and-whanau/.