Navigating the digital world with your child

Snapchat can be accessed through the app and also through a computer web browser. The app offers parental control through Snapchat’s Family Centre that we strongly advise you to set up on your child’s devices. This will give control over who can see your child’s content and who can contact them. There are also ways that your child can report offensive content that they see from other users. Snapchat is a ‘free app,’ but we know nothing in life comes for free- we know that the cost is that your child sells themselves, opens themselves up for advertising. Those who create social networks make money out of knowing all about us, and how do they know all about us? ...because we tell them. Snapchat’s Family Centre helps parents get more insight into who your child is friends with on Snapchat, who they are communicating with, whilst still respecting your child’s privacy. It doesn’t allow you to see the Snaps and messages but it will allow you as a parent to limit your child’s ability to see certain content and will allow you to report to Snapchat any accounts that you may have concern with.