Cybersurvey Reports
Latest!
Cybersurvey 2023-2024 series
'Real or Fake?'
Teenagers talk about online life
NEW! If you want to know more about
- how teens manage life online
- their resilience and awareness of
- fake information,
- or whether digital life helps or hinders homework,
- the role of technology in learning
- the sheer fun and creativity of a connected life or
- the harmful content they encounter,
Real or Fake? delivers all this and more.
The Cybersurvey is proud to include children with a wide range of abilities.
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Fun Friends, Fears & Fallacies
Primary ages
NEW! Our first specially adapted Cybersurvey for primary aged children reveals the richness of their digital lives and how 8yr olds are eagerly using multiple devices. at home.
This dive into children's digital world will help us all realise how embedded digital life is in their everyday experience.
The Covid years
Teens, Tech & Wellbeing.
Covid year 2
How were teens affected when everything changed?
In the second year of COVID, the winter lockdowns were hard on teens. The Cybersurvey explores their wellbeing and their online experiences during repeated lockdowns.
The trends reveal important messages about what children and teens were seeing and encountering. While cyberbullying decreased, they were bombarded by harmful content about body image, suicide and self harm.
Read the 2021-22 report Issued 2023
Locked Down & Online
COVID 2020 report
This extraordinary moment in history when families and schools struggled with one lockdown after another in the autumn and winter of 2020, found some children dramatically affected. Online life took on a new role - many roles. Read all about it from teenagers' perspectives.
Cybersurvey 2019
In Their Own Words, The Digital Lives of Schoolchildren.
The Cybersurvey Overview
October 2020
Thankyou to 15,000 young people and their schools across the UK who took part in our annual Cybersurvey. Thank you to Internet Matters for partnering with us for 2019. We issued three separate reports, this is the overview.
BLOG about what we found
Look at Me.
Teens, Texting and Risks.
Here is an exploration of sexting - the social pressures, the reasons why teens sent or posted the images, and what followed.
In this frank non-judgemental survey with teens, we consider their motivations, their understanding and what happened after they received, shared or posted these images. If you work with, educate or care for teens, this is essential. Approaches are unlikely to work without considering how it looks from a teenage viewpoint.
Refuge & Risk
January 2021
Refuge & Risk: Life Online for Vulnerable Young People.
The sequel to:
'Vulnerable Children in a Digital World.' For vulnerable children, online spaces can be both a welcome 'escape from my issues' or a place where cruelty and hurt are found.
This report provides insight into 6,500+ UK children with some form of vulnerability. We learn how the online world has become their lifeline.
Vulnerable Children in a Digital World
'Vulnerable Children in a Digital World', by Youthworks in partnership with Internet Matters, is a practice amd policy report based on a research paper by Dr Aiman El Asam and Adrienne Katz which exams the online lives of teenagers with a wide range of offline challenges. These range from care experience to hearing loss, learning difficulties or anger issues. Here their online expriences of risk and harm are explained with clear messages on how parents, educators, therapists and carers could be alert to signs of harm and help the young person avoid some of these encounters.
Survey sign up
What is the Cybersurvey?
It aims to capture what young people say about life online. We learn of their experiences, creativity and experiments in a safe space to talk about what they need to become digitally resilient.
We have a different version for ages 8-11.
The survey runs in the autumn term. From it we learn where to focus our efforts, and which groups of children need help.
It expands our online safety horizons and is quite simply, essential for educators, policy makers, professionals around a child and children's services. Messages for parents are offered.
- Schools and students are anonymised
- Unique school codes used
- Age appropriate questions
- Free to schools, academies, colleges and alternative provision
- UK wide
Sign up form
2024.
Working with young people remotely?
Our online safety professional body, AACOSS, offers 3 free videos related to remote working with young people. Are you clear on what to do about safeguarding, data protection, choosing a platform or other points to consider?
1, School page
2, Parent page
Fostering in a digital age
Try out our new website with an exciting accredited training course to help those working with children in care.
This site builds on our work studying the online lives of vulnerable children, many of whom have care experience.
We have built a large library of resources and tools,supporting the 8 module CPD course with an introduction to explore our approach. Videos, 60 second reads, news updates and more, make this a varied, interesting and practical course.
Certificate on completion.
Free documents
The Digital Passport
The Digital Passport for Foster Carers and Children in their care, was created for the Enable-Pathway training programme and received help from members of the UKCIS Vulnerable Users Group. It offers a tool for carers and other professionals to support a child in foster care with their digital life. benefits are
- Consistency
- Continuity
- Concerns are flagged.
- Child friendly: The child's views and concerns are heard.
Contains 3 parts:
Principles for providers of children's residential care
Supporting young people's online experiences
Principles for Social Workers supporting young people's online experiences
Research
Practice learning
