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We're Proud to Sponsor Safer Internet Day - Tuesday 11th February!
At Tesco Mobile, we're excited to sponsor Safer Internet Day 2025 and help you and your family stay safe online.
Research by the UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) reveals that 79% of young people come across online scams at least monthly, with 20%, including children as young as 8, seeing scams online every day.
We have a number of resources to help you and your family stay informed. This is why we are proud sponsors of Safer Internet Day 2025.
Start by refreshing your knowledge on how the apps and websites they use work and how to use them safely with our free Little Digital Helps toolkit created in partnership with Internet Matters. It offers tailored advice on parental controls to help protect children from harmful content, including scams.
We also encourage families to have conversations about online safety at home. Check out our Conversation Starters to help you begin.
Visit your local Tesco Mobile store for practical advice on setting up your devices safely. Our team is here to help!
We're here to help.
We know it can be hard to find time to talk with your kids about the things that matter. For many of us, mealtimes are one of the few moments we have for a proper family chat.
That’s why we’ve created resources to help parents have more approachable and meaningful conversations about online safety during dinner.
Working with child psychologist Dr. Martha Deiros Collado and online safety experts Internet Matters, we’ve developed a range of simple, helpful questions for parents. Perfect for sparking discussions around the dinner table or wherever you feel most comfortable, they cover all the important topics – from gaming to social media..
Don’t make a meal out of the online safety chat. Download and start your conversation today.
Free online safety toolkit for parents and carers
We want everyone to enjoy the benefits of digital devices safely and smartly – and we’re especially committed to helping keep young people safe and healthy online by providing practical, useful real-world help to parents and carers, and teachers:
Our partnership with Internet Matters, providing the Little Digital Helps Toolkit.
This free resource is a tailored online safety plan for parents and carers, giving you the most up-to-date advice on everything from setting up children’s devices and understanding the apps and sites they use, to practical tips for setting screen time limits and developing healthy habits online. Thousands of parents and carers are already using it.
Tailored online safety advice for your device
Using the internet and apps on mobile devices opens up a whole world of opportunities for children when it comes to learning, connecting and having fun. But as a parent or carer, how do you help them stay safe online?
Our Little Digital Helps Toolkit gives you everything you need to get started in the form of a bespoke online safety plan for your children's devices, which you can easily access on your own device, including via email (if you've provided your email address).
Simply by answering 9 quick questions about your children's digital habits, you'll unlock helpful resources and practical advice from the trusted experts at Internet Matters, tailored to your children's online safety needs. So you'll have the most relevant knowledge and up-to-date info to help keep your children safe online when they're using their devices.
Here are just some of the resources you’ll get:
- How-to guides to set up parental controls and privacy settings on popular apps and platforms
- Recommendations for digital tools to support your children's interests and wellbeing
- Info on how to tackle online safety worries
We’re giving you a little help to stay safe online, together with Internet Matters
We now also sponsor ‘Digital Matters’. This is Internet Matters’ interactive platform that provides teachers with everything they need to teach online safety to 9-11 year-olds.
Digital Matters covers 8 key areas of online safety and media literacy across the curriculum areas. Each topic comes with a lesson pack of ready-to-go resources, including lesson plans, guides, slides, activities and handouts.
Teachers tell us Digital Matters’ resources are engaging, easy-to-use, and that they help them teach this fast-changing subject with confidence.
We train all our colleagues to be online safety-savvy, so that safety is part of getting children a mobile phone right from the start.
When you speak to one of us at Tesco Mobile, we’ll be able to help with practical, up-to-date advice on the online safety topics that parents worry about most – such as how to set up parental controls on a new device.
Who are Internet Matters?
Internet Matters are a non-profit organisation at the forefront of practical help and research into children’s online safety.
Digital Matters is their platform that helps parents, carers and teachers stay on top of online safety as technology changes fast. As well as providing advice, support and encouragement, Internet Matters’ research also helped shape the government’s Online Safety Act.
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