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22 March 2023

Exploring the five pillars of the Digital Youth Index

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The DYI tool encompasses five pillars covering wellbeing, safety, skills, connectivity, and access. Here, we explore each of these pillars in more detail and share some key findings and statistics from our year two research.

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Internet safety and countering harms

1 March 2023

A Whole New World?

The metaverse has the potential to transform family life and yet little work has been done to bring parents and children into the debate around the future of online safety. This report summarises current developments in the metaverse landscape, along with early evidence of the opportunities and risks posed to children. It presents new research into what families think and feel about the metaverse, based on an original survey conducted for Internet Matters.

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Internet safety and countering harms

6 February 2023

Online safety through the eyes of young people

Many young people lack reliable and authoritative sources to learn about staying safe online. To allow us to move forward with online safety we must identify the issues and perceived blockers that really matter to young people and understand the changes they want to see.

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Internet safety and countering harms

27 January 2023

Interview: 21-year old shares his perspective around online safety

A 21-year-old interviewed as part of our Nominet Digital Youth Index questions whether online safety approaches used in schools, and by parents, are sufficient in today’s digital society.

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Internet safety and countering harms

25 January 2023

Interview: 8-year-old discloses her personal experiences of online safety within gaming

As part of our Nominet Digital Youth Index, we hear directly from an 8-year-old who discloses her experiences of online safety within gaming and describes how she would identify untrustworthy people online.

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Internet safety and countering harms

12 December 2022

Online Safety Index 2022

How well do schools protect their children online? The Schools Online Safety Index 2022, authored by Prof Andy Phippen, groups and ranks online performance information from over 12,500 schools in England by Local Authority area.

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Internet safety and countering harms
Young girl on social media

24 October 2022

Social media minimum age limits and experiences of distress for underage children online

Tom Baynton, Market Analyst at Nominet, discusses one of the things that struck him during the 2022 research. As the father of two young boys of junior school age, Tom talks about how dependent we are today on digital technology, and as a dad, wants to do all he can to help them benefit from digital technology while mitigating the risks of them being harmed.

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