Grooming

• Health & Social Care
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Online Safety

• How to stay safe online 
• Privacy
• Online threats: Grooming
• What can we do?

Do you think you stay safe online?

Yes

No

What is grooming(not what happens to dogs)

Grooming

• When a person messages a young person over the internet, typically on a fake account, to "be their friend"
• The person is overly nice
• To meet up in person with intention of committing a crime

The 5 stages of grooming

• Targeting - Choosing a young person they can message, often pretending to be of a similar age
• Gaining access - gain trust through attention, compliments or gifts
• Trust development - Consistency in the above
• Exposure to sexual content/acts 
• Maintaining control - use of blackmail/shame/guilt to use against them

How would you spot a fake account

Real

Fake

how do you make your accounts private?

What are some precautions you could take to prevent following fake accounts

Precautions and Staying Safe

• Setting your profile private
• Don't accept friend requests for people you don't know 
• Check with the actual person if you're unsure 
• Check the account, if it looks unsafe, unfollow and report
• Don't reply to any messages from people you don't know

Let's revise some scenarios

A new person in your year has come into school and his/her social media is starting to go around, There are a lot of followers and not many posts:
What would you do?

1. Report the account
2. Ask the person if it is their account
3. Accept the request, cant be that bad
4. Ignore it

A person you don't recognise just messaged asking for a selfie from you and is saying they are a friend of a friend:
What would you do?

1. Report the Account and block it
2. Message them back
3. Send a photo of my cat
4. Ask them to send one first

A person online has asked you to meet up with him/her after school:
What would you do?

1. Meet up with them
2. Report it to your parents and block the account
3. Ignore the message
4. Delay it until next week

A group of students have been invited to join the same WeChat group. At first, it was to chat about homework, but soon it seemed like many strangers were in the chat.
What would you do?

1. Meet up with them
2. Report it to your parents and block the account
3. leave the group as it is not safe
4. Tell your teacher

Safe

Unsafe

Say personal information

Set your profile to private

Talk to people you dont know

Meet someone you met online

Tell a trusted adult about anything inappropriate

Use a strong password

Share photos of you and your friend in the local area

What do you think that young people should do to stay safe?

How useful has this information been today in staying safe online? 1 - not helpful at all or 10 - very helpful

110

Fake accounts can..

• Threat of being groomed
• Get hacked/viruses 
• Getting conned
• Online predators
• Unwanted photos and messages

Why would you make your account private ?

What are the risks of not making your account private

Make an action plan of what you need to do to stay safe online