Helping parents and teachers protect children
Young people are often much more adept at using advanced features of mobile phones and other digital devices than adults. This means that many parents and teachers know less than their children about mobiles and online services. This makes it difficult for them to protect their children from unsuitable online content or bullying.
Informing parents and teachers
Raising parents' awareness about the malicious use of mobile phones is important, so they can protect their children from bullies and from inappropriate contact in chatrooms and social networking sites.
Our operating companies publish local advice to parents, for example:
- Vodafone UK Parents' Guide
- Vodafone Ireland Guide for Parents
- Vodafone Italy advice website
- Vodafone Italy Guide to the Responsible Use of Mobile Phones
- Vodafone New Zealand Parents' Guide
- Vodafone Germany Parents’ Guide
Industry-wide education resource
We lead a pan-industry European education initiative to support ICT industry compliance with the European Framework on Safer Mobile Use by Younger Teenagers and Children (see working with industry).
Vodafone worked with other ICT industry partners and EUN Schoolnet – the online education organisation funded by the network of 28 Ministries of Education from across Europe – to develop an online resource to help teachers understand new mobile services and encourage their students to use them responsibly. The TeachToday website provides a ‘one-stop-shop’ for teachers wanting to access consistent and frequently updated information about the latest developments in information technology.