Toll Bar Primary School

Alerts

Safeguarding Alert

Recent concerns have emerged regarding a WhatsApp group known as ‘Add Everyone.’ Schools and regional police forces across the UK have warned that this group exposes children and young people to explicit and harmful material.

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⚠️ Safeguarding Alert ⚠️

Snapchat 'Meet Up'

We have been made aware of a new, high-risk feature Snapchat have added to their app. The feature, called 'Meet Up' involves the ability to integrate Google Maps & Apple Maps into the Snapchat maps feature (Snap Map) to get precise directions to a friend’s location without any warning or notification. Our online safety experts have created this Safeguarding Alert help you understand the risks of this feature and how to mitigate them.

Snapchat Meet up Safety Alert

Gacha Heat

We have been made aware of several cases where groups of primary school aged children have been exposed to highly inappropriate, violent, and sexualised content made within a popular game called 'Gacha Life'.

'Gacha Heat' uses the characters and backgrounds from this popular roleplaying game and its content currently presents a serious risk to children and young people.

Talkie

We have been made aware of a Social Media/Chat app called Talkie which uses Artificial Intelligence to create characters. These characters are used to start conversations. The characters are often animals/kittens and look appealing to Children.

The App is not appropriate for Children and is aimed at Adults. There have been concerns regarding the content discussed being inappropriate and concerning.

Please keep an eye on what your children are accessing online.

Any questions or concerns please arrange to speak to a member of staff/Safeguarding Team.

Following recurring press reports about the dangers of Omegle we are sharing an updated safeguarding alert to make you aware of a likely increase in interest on this platform.

We were first alerted to this platform last year, but we're now seeing content from Omegle being shared widely across other platforms with trending hashtags, which could drive even more traffic.

Despite young people seeing platforms like these as fun, they may not see the risks from those online with malicious intentions.

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