— Update 9th May 2023 — We’ve been monitoring this particular situation over the weekend and things are back to normal as far as we can see. Obviously we’re keeping an eye on it while our supplier increases capacity for us.—— Many of our customers… Read More »A bit of congestion

Setting up Google Family Link allows parents or carers to set permissions for their Child’s Android phone remotely to set parental controls for applications and internet browsing from their own Android phone. You can download this guide as a PDF Here How to set up… Read More »Ultimate guide to setting up Google Family Link for your Child

With Back-to-School around the corner, ParentShield, urges parents not to take it for granted that children will know how to safely use a mobile phone As the end of school year period approaches, ParentShield, the UK’s only child-safe mobile network, is urging parents not to simply presume… Read More »Don’t leave safe mobile phone use for granted – warns ParentShield

The voicemail system that’s attached to every other mobile network isn’t suitable for a phone used by small children. The system used by all four of the big mobile networks was designed over 40 years ago for use on mobile phones that were primarily there… Read More »Why ParentShield removed Voicemail

We thought we’d ask the now ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence Chat GPT a question: Write a 1000 word essay on the topic of: “Is it safe for an 11 year old to have their own mobile contract.“ The use of mobile phones has become an essential… Read More »Mobile Phone Safety according to AI

Apple have recently added support for Push Notifications to Mobile Safari, in the latest iOS 16.4, but this is still being treated as an “experimental feature”. (This could not possibly have anything to do with Apple potentially making less money, if everyone can get notifications… Read More »Setting up Push Notifications on an iPhone

One of the most requested features for the ParentShield Portal has been a way to associate names with the displayed numbers. The difficulty involved with this is not so much technical — it requires just a few more routine lookups in a database — but… Read More »Who is my child speaking to?

ParentShield, the UK’s Child-Only mobile phone network provides powerful safeguarding and control features for parents wanting to safely provide a first mobile phone to younger children. To address the needs of corporate parents and allow them to respect the rights of children in care, ParentShield… Read More »Parentshield Adds Children In Care Modes

Occasionally we get a question about data time controls. It’s sometimes asked if we can customise SchoolBlock times from 3pm to 3:10 which is an individual school finishing time. Or start the blocking at 8:50 rather than 9am. It’s something we’ve experimented with a little… Read More »Time Controls on ParentShield – things you might need to know

If you are calling a child’s phone and you hear a “The owner of this mobile phone does not permit calls from withheld numbers; please enable caller-ID and try again” message then it’s fairly certain that the number, and caller, you are calling is protected… Read More »No Anonymous Calls – Ever