Taking over from Social Networking in the child’s world or just another Internet fad? One of the fastest growing Online Safety concerns is Live Streaming, Live streaming is the ability via mobile phone or other device to broadcast yourself and your surroundings or activities ‘live’ to friends, or if you so choose, the world. Platforms…
In this post we discuss the Online Safeguarding Challenges ‘Sexting’ according to Wikipedia Sexting is…..”sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or videos, … or sending a text possibly with images”. To be clear this is an adult description. Talk to young people and they have a number of names for it, the most…
Cyberbullying – The realities and coping mechanisms for young people and adults Cyberbullying and bullying in its many forms can affect children in varied ways. Some like myself only encounter short periods in their life when this happens, and the majority develop coping strategies and the period ends. For others though the impact can be…
Tweet #AnInternetWeTrust Facts and Figures An Internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world with Safer Internet Day This Safer Internet day lets explore the headlines from the National Crime Agency; Cyber criminals seek to exploit human or security vulnerabilities in order to steal passwords, data or money directly. The most common cyber threats…
Monday 8th February 2021 – GAMING We are kicking off our series of blog posts focusing on ‘Online Safeguarding Challenges – Gaming’ whereby we will be discussing the current issues at hand and what parents/teachers/carers can do to keep children safe. After the tumultuous year that has been 2020 and the move to online teaching…
How do you know what level of Safeguarding Training you need? Safeguarding Associates for Excellence offer a range of comprehensive training courses. All our Safeguarding training is designed to meet the requirements for any organisation working with children, young people and adults. We have worked hard to ensure that the course content meets the needs…