I wounder if its possible to lock or disable the (Search Plugins) Under the (Plugins Management), i want to lock this function in some way to stop my kids from testing installing or uninstalling some plugins.
Kind of hack-ish, but you may want to try to blacklist plugins.volumio.org in your router or DNS: this should prevent plugin catalog access to all devices on your network.
Or you may do same locally on each device too (/etc/hosts changes for instance).
Hope this helps.
(preventing uninstalling would be more tricky, and will prevent Volumio smooth upgrades)