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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →Sharon Pursey speaking at Anti-Bullying Alliance’s parliamentary event
14th November, 2018
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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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