Seven out of ten parents use technical controls on their child’s devices to manage access to content. Such safeguards can be an enormous asset: helping parents and carers to manage what their child might encounter online while allowing young people to happily use their new gizmo to start exploring the digital world.

Though extremely useful once in place, such parental controls vary from device to device and can often be confusing or difficult to set up. This week’s #WakeUpWednesday guide outlines what defences are available on some of the most popular devices around: advice that will probably come in particularly handy at this time of year!