Some people who are a part of our local Kāhui Ako have worked with Netsafe to provide guidance to our community on how to support young people with their interactions as they spend more and more time with the online world.

Netsafe have agreed to present to parents each week "virtually" about a number of areas around dealing with an online presence. This takes the form of a series of short (approximately 10 minutes each) videos.

Here is a list of topics:

Episode 1: Introduction to Netsafe, the Harmful Digital Communications Act and starting the conversations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka55Uc-85VE

Episode 2: Filters, rules and creating a plan about online activities with your young person. https://youtu.be/54oW6yI4mmI. Here are a couple of other links that you mind find useful as well: https://switchonsafety.co.nz/ and https://www.netsafe.org.nz/online-safety-parent-toolkit/

Episode 3: Bullying, Privacy and Misinformation. Deals with considerations for Privacy of young people and also the proliferation of mis-information. The link for that episode is: https://youtu.be/Boc6ayaBzCY

Episode 4: In the final parents' episode, Paula Wistrand from Netsafe explains that, following cyber-bullying, the natural advice to "block and turn off" might not be the most helpful to our young person. We look into where it may be necessary to start working with Netsafe to instigate some support under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. https://youtu.be/47_p0nty23k