Mental Health World Wellbeing Week

From today (21st June 2021), Mental Health World Wellbeing Week will take place until the end of June aiming to highlight the importance of mental and physical wellbeing. Wellbeing can be interpreted differently depending on the individual however generally speaking ‘wellbeing’ is defined as a satisfactory condition of excellence or the state of being happy, healthy…

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University Mental Health Day

What is ‘University Mental Health Day’? Why is it important? University Mental Health Day is an annual event run by ‘Student Minds’ Charity & ‘University Mental Health Advisors Network’ (UMHAN) held on the first Thursday of March. This year ‘UMHD’ is taking place on Thursday 4th March 2021. UMHD is aimed at uniting the University…

Online Safeguarding Challenges ‘Live Streaming’

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…

Online Safeguarding Challenges ‘Sexting’

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…

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Online Safeguarding Challenges ‘Cyberbullying’

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…

Safer Internet Day 2021

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…

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Online Safeguarding Challenges ‘Gaming’

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…

Our 2021 Safeguarding Courses

We are excited to share our 2021 Safeguarding Courses. SAFE received some outstanding feedback from both individuals and companies/organisations who undertook a variety of safeguarding training with us during 2020. On reflection, I’m sure most would agree that 2020 has been a most challenging year indeed. For SAFE it has involved our trainers acquainting themselves…