How do you teach your children about consent? Many of us find it difficult talking about consent with our children or even fully really understanding it. For instance, were you brought up being told you need/have to give a relative a hug or kiss even if you did not...
Resources
Terrorist Hunt
(c) Kit Logan, 2001 This game is designed to provoke discussion and help demonstrate the problem of hunting down terrorists. The object of this game is to hunt down the terrorists with as few a number of civilian casualties as possible. To be effective you need around 20 or...
Facebook Like Farming Scams
Dorset Police Cyber Crime Unit have posted a nice piece about Facebook ‘Like Farming’, those pages which look a bit too good to be true, free holidays, free smart phones, free flights, etc. Just for liking, commenting and/or sharing the post. That’s not to say some companies don’t offer...
County Lines: A risk to children
Sounds innocent, but it’s not. “County Lines” is the name given to criminals using children to courier drugs for them often getting them to travel to other counties. Sometimes children as young as 12 and there is an estimated 46,000 children currently involved in gang activity across the UK....
A 2nd Referendum?
Only if we do it right this time! Following the turmoil of the 2016 EU Referendum, there has been increasing discussion about holding a 2nd Referendum about whether the UK should stay in the EU or not (actually this would be the 3rd referendum as we had one about...
The Bug Club
If you love bugs, insects, minibeasts, etc or just interested in them. The Bug Club is for you. It’s for young entomologists and run by the Amateur Entomologists Society offering a bi-monthly magazine, special events, an annual open day at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the...
National Children’s Activities Conference 2017
This might be of interest if you work and provide activities for children: National Children’s Activities Conference 29 November 2017 9.00am – 5.30pm RBS 250, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4AA The National Children’s Activities Conference for all children’s activities providers who want knowledge, motivation and connections to grow their business....
Brexit: Politics the ultimate game
Why include anything about Brexit and politics in FunandGames.org? When the site was set up back in 1999 (yup we’ve been around a while), it was to be a resource for young people and those who work for young people. Games resources was just a part of it. That...
Internet Safety: Help yourself stay safe online (and offline!)
If you are using the internet you are potentially connected to every other computer and user also using the internet. That means you have access to some incredibly excellent resources of information, entertainment, shopping, social interaction, but it also means that you and the machines or gadgets you are...