Breck Foundation

How do you make online safety truly stick for young people? 📱 Our Breck Foundation speaker sessions are the perfect fit for your school's PSHE curriculum. We deliver age-appropriate, real-world talks on: ✅ Online grooming & gaming safety ✅ AI, deepfakes & misinformation ✅ Digital wellbeing Empower your students to stay safe and smart online. 📚 Book a session for your school today: www.breckfoundation.org #PSHE #OnlineSafety #Safeguarding

Have you seen something upsetting online? It happens... but it shouldn't, and you don’t have to deal with it alone. Share this with someone who might need it. 💙 #BreckFoundation #OnlineSafety #StaySafeOnline #YoungPeople

Our latest Growing Up Gaming research finds that 'stranger danger' tops parents worries when it comes to their kids online gaming. Gaming is firmly embedded in modern childhood. It is a way for children to play, create and spend time with friends, family and wider online communities. Our research brings together evidence about how children game, who they play with and the experiences they have online. It finds that: 🎮 88% of children aged 3–17 play games on some kind of device 👥 55% of children who game online play with people they have only met online at least sometimes 💬 64% of parents are concerned about their child talking to strangers while gaming 📋 But only 43% set rules about who their child can play with Gaming platforms have a legal responsibility to protect children, and we are working to ensure they meet those responsibilities, already securing measures on ROBLOX, PlayStation and Xbox. Alongside that work, our Parents: Power Up campaign is helping families better understand children’s gaming worlds and take simple steps towards safer gaming. For those that want peace of mind at home, our advice is to take three simple action: Check Chat Change

In support of @YoungMindsUK and #HelloYellow, we’re talking about mental wellbeing online. Filters, algorithms, device addiction and harmful content can all affect how young people feel, and open conversations with trusted adults make all the difference. 💛 #WorldMentalHealthDay #BreckFoundation Want to bring Wellbeing Online to your school or community? Get in touch: https://buff.ly/AdsK2Pc

Are you a parent or carer of a child aged 9 to 17? We'd love your help. At the Breck Foundation, we're working with the DRAGON team to adapt their DRAGON-Shield training for families. The training is built on research into how groomers talk to children online. Now we want to turn it into practical, accessible resources that parents and carers can use at home with their children. Who better to shape that than parents and carers themselves? What's involved: -2 online consultation workshops (October and November 2026) -An invitation to the DRAGON-Shield for Parents/Caregivers launch webinar What you'll get: -Free, exclusive access to research-based training on how communication works in online grooming -Advice and support from the DRAGON team -A real say in resources that could help protect children around the world Register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eRdvVevN Find out more about DRAGON: https://lnkd.in/esUEkny8 Please share with any parents, carers or school communities in your network. #OnlineSafety #ChildProtection #OnlineGrooming #Safeguarding #ParentingInTheDigitalAge #DRAGONShield #BreckFoundation

Young people are ready and waiting to work with the government to call time on the “decades of indifference” that shaped our lives growing up online, and rebuild online safer spaces where our generation and the next can thrive online. That was FlippGen’s message for Ian Murray MP in his role as Minister of State for Creative Industries, Media and Online Safety at Labour Party Conference. As part of IWF’s panel on Delivering on Labour’s Commitment to Keeping Children Safe Online, our Non Exec Director Catherine Reader joined Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) CEO Kerry Smith, Daily Mirror Political Correspondent Sophie Huskisson, the Minister, and Jess Phillips MP to chat about: 🔴 the stark reality of where we are now. FlippGen's Gen Z led team have watched in horror as the harms we have faced years ago online are becoming ever present and normalised, whilst government action has not caught up. Catherine discussed how she’s heard directly from young people we work with that the misogyny and sexualisation of young people she experienced in LGBT+ spaces online years ago has become commonplace across the internet. 🔴 how we got here. Panellists shared how they wished they could turn back the clock and have secured more interventionist government action 10 years ago, to stop emerging harm we faced as children escalating to where it is today. We discussed how the consultation on children’s safety online was the first chance for many of young people to finally tell the government about what we have experienced online for years. We also chatted about how lessons are yet to be learnt from the Online Safety Act, how long it took to pass resulted in harms we experienced not being acted on, and that continued slow pace for government intervention to fix holes that have emerged as the Act has been implemented has meant children are not safer online today. 🔴 where we need to go next. Where we found harmony as a panel was in agreeing that more government intervention is needed beyond removing access to platforms. We discussed creating platforms that finally work for young people and we’ve seen this sentiment reflected in the Secretary of State’s comments today. FlippGen, Molly Rose Foundation and Breck Foundation’s polling shows young people want to be a part of defining what’s next, young people want to still be able to connect and learn online, and they want to be safe when doing that. Key themes emerged around building on the foundations government has in place to act on this - growing the initial shoots of engagement we saw in the consultation earlier this year, acting on the powers in the Crime and Policing Act to regulate AI and strengthening the Online Safety Act. FlippGen are ready to move on from the years of indifference that shaped our lives online. We are ready to work with the Secretary of State, Minister, and wider civil society to create online spaces with young people, for this generation and the next to thrive.

Meet our School Engagement Officers from Northamptonshire! 🇬🇧 Whether you’re looking for guidance on online safety or want to bring an impactful talk to your students, our team is here to help. Visit https://buff.ly/G9tnyAk for more information. #InternetSafety #BreckFoundation #SchoolEngagement #OnlineSafety #DigitalSafety #ProtectOurChildren

We welcome the news that tech firms could earn an exemption from the UK's under-16s social media ban, but only if they make their platforms safe by design. That's the right place to put the responsibility. For too long, the job of keeping children safe online has fallen on parents, carers and teachers, who are doing their best with tools that were never built with children in mind. A few things matter now: -The bar has to be high. Safe has to mean safe for children, not just safer than before. That includes protection from strangers making contact, which is how grooming starts. -It has to be checked and reviewed regularly, and independently. -Young people's voices need to shape what "safe" looks like. They know these platforms better than anyone. -A ban or an exemption list is not the whole answer. Children will still be online, in games, in messaging apps and in spaces no list will cover. Education and trusted adults who feel confident to talk still matter. We'll keep working with young people, families and schools so that when the rules change in 2027, no one is left thinking the job is done. https://lnkd.in/e4kPqcQM #OnlineSafety #SafetyByDesign #ChildSafety #BreckFoundation