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Best Phones for 10 Year Olds?

Posted: 17 October 2026

What If They Didn’t Need One? Your child is out playing with friends. No phone. No smartwatch. No GPS tracker. Nothing to...

Ofcom’s Age Assurance Assessment

Posted: 07 October 2026

“Can I have a phone?” For parents of children approaching the end of primary school, it is a familiar question. Behind the...

Freshers Week and the 1% Phone

Posted: 05 September 2026

You know the feeling. It is 1am, you are three streets from a flat you moved into four days ago, and your...

Starting Secondary School

Posted: 14 August 2026

There is a photograph almost every parent takes at the start of September. A child in a blazer that is slightly too...

Their First Holiday Without You: A Guide for Parents of Teenagers

Posted: 06 August 2026

There is a particular summer that arrives in every family without much warning. The one where your teenager goes away without you...

Children’s emergency skills: the gap parents miss

Posted: 30 July 2026

Ask most parents whether their child would know what to do if something went wrong while they were out, and the answer...

The EU Entry Exit System With Children: What Happens at the Border This Summer

Posted: 23 July 2026

Every family holiday has a queue in it somewhere. This year, the one at passport control is doing something new. Travelling through...

The Blue Dot Goes Out: What Happens When Your Child’s Phone Is Flat?

Posted: 16 July 2026

There is a particular kind of calm that comes from opening an app and seeing a small blue dot exactly where it...

Is Facial Recognition Safe? The Same Face, Two Different Stories

Posted: 08 July 2026

Is facial recognition safe? It is a fair question to be asking this summer. In recent weeks the police have pushed live...

Reach home without a phone

Posted: 02 July 2026

We want to start this month with a question rather than an answer. It is one we have not been able to...

The Hidden Cost of a School Phone Policy

Posted: 25 June 2026

When a school introduces a mobile phone policy, the costs that get signed off are the obvious ones. Pouches, lockable wallets, lockers,...

Family Travel Safety Tips for Summer

Posted: 21 June 2026

Summer is the season of departure lounges, motorway service stations and that first proper exhale when the holiday finally begins. It is...

First Phone Debate

Posted: 12 June 2026

The First Phone Debate: When Should You Get Your Child a Phone? Few decisions in modern parenting are as quietly stressful as...

AI Chatbots and Children

Posted: 12 June 2026

Most of the national conversation about online safety still focuses on social media. That is understandable, since it is the area with...

Phone Pouches vs Lockers for Phone Free Schools

Posted: 06 June 2026

For most school leaders, the phone question is no longer whether. It is how. From 29 June 2026, Section 36 of the...

Consensual Biometrics vs Surveillance

Posted: 05 June 2026

Facial recognition has been having a difficult year in the UK news. Police use of live facial recognition in city centres has...

Child Safety Week 2026: Planning Communication

Posted: 02 June 2026

Child Safety Week is here again, running from Monday 1 June to Sunday 7 June 2026, and this year’s theme from the...

Tracking Apps Track the Phone, Not the Person

Posted: 28 May 2026

Open the app store and search for family safety, and you will find the same idea over and over: a map, a...

Keeping Children Safe Online

Posted: 28 May 2026

The UK is having one of the most important conversations about childhood in a generation. The Government’s “Growing up in the online...

Reassuring Parents in Phone Free Schools

Posted: 21 May 2026

Every headteacher who has rolled out a phone free policy has heard the same question, usually within the first parents’ evening of...

True Cost of Phone Free Schools

Posted: 21 May 2026

Going phone free is the easy part. Keeping it phone free is where the real work begins. The true cost of phone...

Why Every School Is Going Phone Free

Posted: 21 May 2026

There is a clear answer to why every school is going phone free, and from 29 June 2026 it is backed by...

MyHomeCall launches free version of app

Posted: 13 February 2026

In January 2026 we launched a free version of the My Home Call app: a free personal safety app that lets you...

A Student Guide to Night Out Safety

Posted: 05 February 2026

Freshers’ week, student social nights, cheap drinks and last minute plans. Nights out are one of the best parts of being a...

Press Release

Posted: 07 December 2025

Emergency services across the UK face increased pressures during the winter months. As part of national Winter Safety Awareness Week running from...

Keeping Children Safe in Crowds This Summer

Posted: 07 December 2025

Heading to a busy event with your family? Here’s how to stay safe, avoid stress, and make sure your kids can always...

Why Kids Don’t Memorise Phone Numbers Anymore and Why That’s a Problem

Posted: 07 December 2025

Think back to when you were a kid… Chances are, you could rattle off your home number (you probably still remember every...