Helping educate members about Netflix parental controls

Earlier this year, we refreshed our parental control tools on service to make it easier for members to make the right viewing decisions for their families. We wanted to do more to ensure that these updates - including pin protections, title restrictions and age filters - were simple to access, understand and implement. 

In order to raise further awareness about these improvements with our members, we recently worked with the UK Safer Internet Centre to create a handy guide for parents outlining Netflix's updated parental control tools. 

The free checklists will be distributed to schools across the UK for children to give to their parents and caregivers. School leaders and parents can also download the checklist via the UK Safer Internet Centre website.

Members can then add these new and improved controls to their profile by going to their account settings on mobile or laptop devices.

These guides are the latest collaboration between Netflix and the UK Safer Internet Centre, with whom we’ve also partnered with around Safer Internet Day. We also continue to work with other Safer Internet Centres across the European Union. Safer Internet Centres raise awareness regarding online risks amongst children, parents, teachers and caregivers. They do this work through assembling educational materials, events, informational sessions and youth panels to get young adults’ help planning future outreach.

“Online safety, protection and safeguarding of children is a priority and we are more than thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Netflix on this resource and help inform and educate parents on how to better protect their children,” said Boris Radanovic, Engagement and Partnership Manager at UK Safer Internet. “Parental controls presents a first step for parents to start the conversation about safety, privacy, age appropriate content and many other topics with their children.”

Choice and control have always been important for our members, and important to us at Netflix. By sharing an easily accessible checklist of these updated tools, we hope this helps equip parents to make the right choices for their families.