SafeToNet Foundation

Safeguarding podcast – The Truth Engine with Peter Cochrane OBE

20th May, 2019

Former CTO for BT, Peter Cochrane OBE proposes “Truth Engines” as an antidote to the algorithm-driven social media world which defines the digital context in which children are immersed and in...

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Safeguarding podcast – The Tangled Web with PA Consulting

07th May, 2019

Nick Newman, Defence, Security and Public Safety expert within PA Consulting’s Vulnerabilities team guides us through their report The Tangled Web, in response to the UK Government’s Online Harms...

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Safeguarding Podcast – Choose Respect with the Anti-Bullying Alliance

24th April, 2019

In this safeguarding podcast with Martha Evans, Director of the Anti-Bullying Alliance, we define bullying, discuss the link between online and offline bullying, explore the impact of this on...

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Safeguarding Podcast – Age Verification with the DPA

12th April, 2019

Rudd Apsey, Director of the Digital Policy Alliance (DPA) guides us through the intricacies of Age Verification. What is it, how does it work, who does it apply to and is it secure? Will we need Age...

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Safeguarding Podcast – Cyberbullying and how to measure it

29th March, 2019

In this safeguarding podcast, Lucy Betts Associate Professor of Psychology of Nottingham Trent University, takes us through her “three-factor” scale of cyberbullying and cyber-victimisation, how...

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Safeguarding Podcast – Online Media Law

25th March, 2019

We are all journalists now…Dr Holly Powell-Jones takes us through the interpretive nature of UK law as it pertains to children online, the social and cultural norms that impact law, and whether...

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Safeguarding Podcast – Blinded by the Light

22nd March, 2019

In this podcast recorded at the House of Lords we talk with John Carr OBE about digital gangsters, age verification, legislation & regulation and of course the impact of Brexit on safeguarding of...

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Safeguarding podcast – Vulnerable Children in a Digital World

18th March, 2019

In this edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s Safeguarding podcast, we interview award-winning author and researcher Adrienne Katz about her recent report focussing on the issues of Vulnerable...

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Safeguarding podcast – interview with Susie Hargreaves CEO IWF

07th February, 2019

In this edition of the SafeToNet Foundation Safeguarding Podcast, we interview Susie Hargreaves, CEO of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) about the work they do in tracking down, cataloging and...

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Digital Responsibility

30th November, 2018

The fallout from online abuse can be devastating, leading even to suicide. Cyberbullying is a recent phenomenon, related mostly to the use and misuse of social media.This graph shows the range of...

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A youthful folly

16th November, 2018

I recently attended an event hosted by the Anti-Bullying Alliance in the Speaker’s House, House of Commons Westminster and thanks to Martha Evans of the Anti-Bullying Alliance, our CEO Sharon...

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Bully beef

06th November, 2018

In 2009, Her Majesty’s Government decided to end the traditional use of bully beef in ration packs, especially in high temperature hostile zones. Bully beef (also known as corned beef in the United...

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Blocking isn’t the solution

17th October, 2018

Changing attitudes to communications technology:1876“An amazing invention but who would ever want to use one?”– US President Rutherford B. Hayes, referring to the recently invented telephone...

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Putting it all into context

20th September, 2018

Contextual Safeguarding was developed at the University of Bedfordshire out of Dr Carlene Firmin’s research, working alongside practitioners and agencies and has been incorporated into HM...

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