• Online/Digital safety –

Omegle has been a headache for those concerned with protecting children for a decade and a half. On first glance the site is a simple internet chatroom, reminiscent of platforms from the Internet’s early years. It has no registration or account system. Being designed with the originally innocent objective of getting strangers to talk to each other, but this allows under-18s to easily use the platform, without needing parental assistance, money or even an email address. This already creates a dangerous situation to young pupils, but its insistence on users needing a webcam to chat places anyone underage in an extremely vulnerable place. To find out more about Omegle and the risks it poses, please follow the links below: 

Internet Matters: https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/news-blogs/what-is-omegle-what-parents-need-to-know/

Childnet: https://www.childnet.com/blog/what-is-omegle-key-things-parents-and-carers-need-to-know/

https://swgfl.org.uk/…/report-harmful-content-button
free and downloadable from here

Introduction to ChatGPT and AI chatbots – Ineqe Safeguarding Group