The Eastern Regions Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) Cyber Protect and Cyber Choices team linked to Bedfordshire Police are once more delivering their very popular FREE online education sessions focusing on parents and carers around the cyber world. There are multiple dates available, as detailed below, throughout the academic year. With our own online safety event coming up, it would be well worth gaining some more insight around this issue and strategies you can put in place to make the virtual world more safe for your children.

Please note, there are 2 parts to these events and you would need to register for each separately.

Parents' Event - Pt1 - Introduction to Cyber Choices and Online Risks

This is an opportunity for parents/carers to learn and ask questions regarding thier children in the online world.

They will receive an overview of:

• Some of the potential risks that children and young people may experience online.
• Advice to support parents to make informed decisions and keep their children safer online. 

This session will also introduce attendees to the Cyber Choices programme and will provide:

• An overview to parents and carers on what cybercrime is. 
• What the risks to young people are.
• How the Cyber Choices programme supports at-risk individuals. 
• How you can refer a young person into Cyber Choices.
  

Thursday 16^th October 2025               16:00 – 17:00 – Link

Tuesday 25^th November 2025            10:00 – 11:00 - Link

Parents Event - Pt2 - Tools and techniques to improve the cyber security of your family

This session is suitable for parents/carers and is an opportunity to learn and ask questions regarding your child’s online world.

This session will:

• Provide advice on how to improve personal cyber security.
• Help you to identify and protect your (and your children's) key accounts.
• Identify threats and techniques that cyber criminals may use to target you / your family.
• Highlight the benefits of family accounts.
• Identify parental controls on your router.
• Signposting to useful resources.
   

Advice and guidance from the session will be in line with the Government's Stop! Think Fraud and the National Cyber Security Centres CyberAware campaign.

Thursday 23^rd October2025      16:00 – 17:00 – Link

Tuesday 2^nd December 2025    10:00 – 11:00 - Link