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Safeguarding Podcast – Levelling Up and the Online Safety Bill, Damian Collins MP

22nd January, 2022    No Comments

In this Human Rights Safeguarding Podcast: the UK’s Online Safety Bill with Damian Collins MP, the Bill’s Scrutiny Committee’s recommendations, the meaning of “harm”, what offline laws...

Safeguarding podcast – Digital Wallets & Dark Patterns of Persuasion with Rick Lane, Iggy Ventures

08th January, 2022    No Comments

In this human rights safeguarding podcast with Rick Lane of Iggy Ventures, we discuss updates to Section 230, COPPA and the WhoIs issue, national security concerns caused by TikTok, the regulatory...

Safeguarding Podcast: 2021 Review – What a Year!

18th December, 2021    No Comments

Our 2021 review of Human Rights Safeguarding Podcasts includes many of this year’s amazing guests. Topics include Addiction, Apple’s NeuralHash CSAM, AgeVerification, John Doe vs Twitter, WhoIS,...

Safeguarding Podcast – The 2021 Global Threat Assessment with Iain Drennan WPGA

04th December, 2021    No Comments

In this Human Rights Safeguarding Podcast: Iain Drennan CEO WeProtect Global Alliance discusses the 2021 Global Threat Assessment report, research with the Technology Coalition, the Global...

Safeguarding Podcast – CSAM Users in the Dark Web with Tegan Insoll & Anna Ovaska, Protect Children

20th November, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Anna Ovaska and Tegan Insoll from Finland’s Protect Children we discuss their research programs “Help Us To Help You” and “No Need for Help”, the...

Safeguarding Podcast – The Five Pillars with Sean Litton CEO Technology Coalition

06th November, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast: Sean Litton CEO of the Technology Coalition discusses their Five Pillars to eliminate CSAM, Universal Video Hashing, universal Terms of Service, the UN CRC and General...

Our Safeguarding Podcasts are one of the top 10 UK Human Rights podcasts!

01st November, 2021    No Comments

https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_human_rights_podcasts/It’s amazing to be included in such august and prestigious company, we are beyond thrilled!Thanks so much to all of our podcast guests from around...

Safeguarding Podcast – the Trichan Takedown with Lloyd Richardson and Professor Michael Salter

23rd October, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast: Lloyd Richardson Canadian Centre for Child Protection & Professor Michael Salter talk us through the Trichan Takedown, how ISPs fought against CSAM message boards...

Safeguarding podcast – Hunters, Talkers & Loopers with Austin Berrier, HSI officer

09th October, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast: Austin Berrier Homeland Securities Investigations Officer discusses the impact of Apple’s Child Safety tech on Law Enforcement, the live streaming of child sexual...

Safeguarding Podcast – One Kind Word with Martha Evans, Director Anti-Bullying Alliance

25th September, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Martha Evans, Director of the Anti-Bullying Alliance: The Children’s Code and how it might impact cyberbullying, the impact of COVID on cyberbullying, ABA’s...

The CSAM Seesaw

23rd September, 2021    No Comments

  Balancing Trust and Safety in End-to-end Encrypted PlatformsThe Stanford Internet Observatory hosted a panel of speakers presenting views on new products and services intended to protect children...

Safeguarding Podcast – Digital Crime Scenes : Digital DNA with Professor Hany Farid

11th September, 2021    No Comments

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s safeguarding podcast with Neil Fairbrother, exploring the law culture and technology of safeguarding children online.In this Safeguarding...

Safeguarding Podcast – Jane with Glen Pounder COO Child Rescue Coalition

28th August, 2021    No Comments

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s safeguarding podcast with Neil Fairbrother exploring the law, culture and technology of safeguarding children online.In this Safeguarding...

CSI Apple: The Omnibus Edition

26th August, 2021    No Comments

Apple’s recent CSAM detection announcement has caused a controversy about online privacy. Privacy of course is something we should all take seriously, especially with the unregulated commercial...

You’ve already agreed to Apple’s CSAM detection, but you just didn’t know it.

18th August, 2021    No Comments

If you already use Apple’s iCloud service and are objecting to their recent announcement that they will search it for evidence of pre-hashed or digitally-finger printed images of illegal child...

Safeguarding Podcast – the Perfect Storm with Howard Taylor, Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

14th August, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Howard Taylor, Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children: the UN General Comment 25 of the UN CRC and what it means for online...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Apple’s Curate’s Egg

12th August, 2021    No Comments

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, or so goes the saying. Apple’s recent privacy announcement included details about online child safety features that they intend to introduce is,...

Safeguarding Podcast – Amy, Vicky, Andy and OCSE too with Thomas Mueller, Deputy Executive Director ECPAT

31st July, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Thomas Mueller Deputy Executive Director of ECPAT, we discuss the international aspects of online child abuse, the impact of the Vietnam war on child abuse, the...

Safeguarding Podcast – County Lines with Dr Grace Robinson

17th July, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Dr Grace Robinson we discuss the language, business and impact of County Lines. What are “clean skins” and “gift girls”? Have COVID lockdowns stopped County...

Safeguarding Podcast – The Hidden Addiction with Lucy Gardner and Kev Cleland, YGAM

03rd July, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Lucy Gardner & Kevin Cleland of YGAM we discuss the convergence of gaming and gambling, the shared techniques of each to hook their users into what YGAM call the...

Safeguarding Podcast – The Unseen Teen with Amanda Lenhart, Data and Society Research Institute

19th June, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Amanda Lenhart of Data & Society Research Institute we discuss how Teens are an afterthought in social media product design, despite adolescents needing special...

Safeguarding Podcast – How Old Are EU? with Tony Allen CEO Age Check Certification Scheme

05th June, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding podcast with Tony Allen, CEO Age Check Certification Scheme, we discuss the five principles of the EUConsent project, age verification across the EU, the eIDAS Regulation, the...

Safeguarding podcast – Bad News for Bad Guys with Glen Pounder, Child Rescue Coalition

22nd May, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Glen Pounder from the Child Rescue Coalition, we explore the Deep Web, explain how it works and the scale of CSAM sharing on it. We find out whether it’s as safe...

Safeguarding Podcast – Red Card! with Tony Kelly

08th May, 2021    No Comments

In this SafeguardingPodcast with Tony Kelly, we discuss his life as a professional footballer, THAT goal, how his gambling addiction impacted his game and his book Red Card! A Bet You Can Win. We...

Safeguarding Podcast – WhoIs the Problem? With Rick Lane, Iggy Ventures

24th April, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Rick lane of Iggy Ventures we discuss how the mismanagement of the internet causes online harms, how it’s been made so opaque that no one can understand it, what...

Safeguarding Podcast – John Doe vs Twitter with Lisa Haba, Haba Law & Peter Gentala, NCOSE

10th April, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Lisa Haba partner at the Haba law firm and Peter Gentala, Senior Legal Counsel for the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) law centre. we discuss what...

Safeguarding Podcast – The Dirty Dozen with Haley McNamara Director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation (ICOSE)

27th March, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Haley McNamara Director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation (ICOSE) we discuss the Dirty Dozen report. Companies featured include Amazon, Twitch, Only...

Safeguarding podcast – Tools for Today’s Digital Parents with Stephen Balkam CEO FOSI

13th March, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Stephen Balkam CEO FOSI we discuss their report “Tools for Today’s Digital Parents” to keep their children safe online. We cover “resilience”, Age...

Safeguarding Podcast – Living In Hope, with Denton Howard Executive Director INHOPE

27th February, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss with Denton Howard Executive Director of INHOPE their international network of Hotlines, we explore the EU’s Strategy for a More Effective Fight Against...

Safeguarding podcast – The VoCo Manifesto & the Fox in the Hen Coop with Antonia Bayly of the DCMS

13th February, 2021    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss the VoCo Manifesto with Antonia Bayly Head of Safety by Design and Age Assurance Technologies DCMS. Age Assurance vs Age Verification vs Age Estimation, how it...

Safeguarding Podcast – Unintended Consequences & YSOs with Professor Elizabeth Letourneau

03rd February, 2021    No Comments

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s safeguarding podcast with Neil, Fairbrother exploring the law culture and technology of safeguarding...

Safeguarding Podcast – 2020 Vision: a review of 2020’s Safeguarding Podcasts

16th January, 2021    No Comments

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s Safeguarding Podcast with Neil Fairbrother exploring the law, culture and technology of safeguarding children online.In this Safeguarding...

Safeguarding Podcast – Porn Stars in Superhero Suits & Internet Gaming Disorder with Michiel Smit

02nd January, 2021    No Comments

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s safeguarding podcast with Neil Fairbrother, exploring the law, culture and technology of safeguarding children online.In this Safeguarding...

Safeguarding Podcast – Freedom of Thought, the Forgotten Right with Susie Alegre, Doughty Street Chambers

19th December, 2020    No Comments

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s safeguarding podcast with Neil Fairbrother exploring the law culture and technology of safeguarding children...

Safeguarding Podcast – Lydia Grace of the Samaritans

05th December, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Lydia Grace of the Samaritans their industry guidelines for managing self-harm and suicide content on their websites and how to keep vulnerable people...

Safeguarding Podcast – The COVID Impact with Sheila Taylor MBE, NWG Network

21st November, 2020    No Comments

COVID has of course impacted us all, but children especially so and in many different ways. Based on her presentation at the 2020 Inside Government’s Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation conference,...

Safeguarding podcast – Parenting for a Digital Future with Sonia Livingstone OBE

07th November, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Sonia Livingstone OBE her book “Parenting for a Digital Future”. How can parents derive maximum benefit for their children from the phenomenon of the...

Safeguarding podcast – the Age Appropriate Design Code with Steve Wood, ICO

24th October, 2020    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast I’m joined by Steve Wood, Deputy Commissioner and Executive Director of the Information Commissioner’s Office to discuss the Age Appropriate Design Code.Online data...

Safeguarding podcast – Innovation is illegal, with John Carr OBE

10th October, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast with John Carr OBE, we discuss how the EU went wrong with GDPR, the EU’s new ePrivacy regulation and how it will make CSAM detection innovation illegal. We ask what is...

Internet Safety: a blog post by Neil Fairbrother and Fred Langford

01st October, 2020    No Comments

“If you were a pedophile and you were looking to invent a system for abusing children, identifying them, grooming them, being able to meet them where your safety was guaranteed to carry out acts...

Safeguarding Podcast – Lock Them Up and Throw Away the Key, with Jenny Greensmith-Brennan, Safer Lives

26th September, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast with Jenny Greensmith-Brennan of Safer Lives, we ask is there a way other than prison of dealing with offenders? Is prison effective and is it offenders’ biggest fear?...

Safeguarding podcast – The Digital Sweetshop with Baroness Beeban Kidron

12th September, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast with Baroness Beeban Kidron of 5Rights, we discuss the rights of children online. What are the moral and legal obligations of businesses as far as children are concerned?...

Safeguarding Podcast – the Supply & Demand of Live Streamed Child Sex Abuse with IJM’s John Tanagho

29th August, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast John Tanagho of the International Justice Mission, IJM, discusses the Supply and Demand of privacy-enabled encrypted “Pay Per View & Direct” live streaming of...

Safeguarding podcast – It’s an unfathomable thing, with Greg Louie Principal Saratoga High School

15th August, 2020    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss the issues for online safety that COVID19 has brought to Saratoga High School, USA. Principal Greg Louie discusses how his school has adapted to the challenges...

Safeguarding podcast – The Marquis de Sade, the Libertines and the Internet with Professor Michael Salter

01st August, 2020    No Comments

In this Safeguarding podcast we discuss the organised sexual abuse of children. Beyond the lurid headlines, how common is organized sexual abuse? What are the contexts in which organised abuse takes...

Safeguarding podcast – The UN CRC, SDGs & VNRs with UN SRSG on Violence Against Children Najat Maalla M’jid

18th July, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence Against Children, Najat Maalla M’jid, the UN CRC, what it is and the 4 under-pinning...

Safeguarding Podcast – OSTIA & the Strategic Inflection Point with Ian Stevenson

04th July, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the fledgling Online SafetyTech Industry Association, OSTIA, with its Chair Ian Stevenson. Can a UK tech collective effectively tackle the Online Harms that US...

Safeguarding Podcast – “Be More Moses” with Rabbi Diana Gerson

21st June, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk to Rabbi Diana Gerson about the Jewish faith and its role in safeguarding children online, as well as Rabbi Gerson’s interfaith approach to the issue. Shomrim,...

Internet Safety

17th June, 2020    No Comments

Earlier this year I published a podcast episode with Fred Langford, the CTO of the Internet Watch Foundation which focussed on a particular aspect of telecoms encryption (DNS over HTTPS or DoH) and...

Safeguarding podcast – It’s a cesspool. A discussion with NCOSE

06th June, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk with Eleanor Kelly Gaetan, Director of Government Relations for the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) about the American legal system and US Federal...

New report reveals UK as world leader in online safety innovation

27th May, 2020    No Comments

Study shows significant growth of ‘safety tech’ businesses and their importance in plans to make UK the safest place to be onlineMore than 70 companies in London, Leeds, Cambridge and Edinburgh...

Safeguarding podcast – The UK as a World Leader in SafetyTech

26th May, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Director of Perspective Economics Sam Donaldson, the DCMS sponsored inaugural report on the UK SafetyTech industry. Forwarded by Caroline Dinenage, the...

Safeguarding podcast – An analog law in a digital world, with Simone Vibert

23rd May, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Simone Vibert, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Analyst, the unique powers of the Children’s Commissioner’s Office, what they are and what they...

Safeguarding podcast – The Man from the PRU

20th May, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Iain Thomas Deputy Head of The Foundry College PRU, the devastating effect smart phones can have on children, how they are ensnared into County Lines and...

Safeguarding podcast – Agents of the State: A discussion with Rick Lane

25th April, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Rick Lane, formerly “the point person for cleaning up MySpace”, the legal issues around Section 230 and why social media platforms are fighting any...

The Near Futurist – a podcast interview

24th April, 2020    No Comments

In this Near Futurist podcast interview hosted by Guy Clapperton, we discuss online harms, Section 230 of the Communications Act which seems to be the root cause of many of the issues we face today,...

Safeguarding podcast – Missing the target. A discussion with Anna Borgstrom of NetClean.

11th April, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the prevalence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the corporate IT environment, it’s scale and impact. We discover that IT teams typically don’t have...

Safeguarding podcast – Project Arachnid with Lianna McDonald

28th March, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss Project Arachnid with Lianna McDonald Senior Executive of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. We cover the “Continuum of Abuse”, the five different...

Safeguarding podcast – Hackable Humans with Stephen Balkam CEO FOSI

14th March, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with CEO Stephen Balkam some of the work of the American Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). We also discuss a number of potential and actual US laws that...

New research by Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation reveals more than half of young women have experienced online abuse and harassment.

12th March, 2020    No Comments

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, has today published an open letter warning that continued lack of web access and a growing crisis of online harms are fuelling...

Safeguarding podcast – Strangers in the mind of the child with Ernie Allen, Chair WPGA

29th February, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast with Ernie Allen, Chair of the WeProtect Global Alliance, we discuss the impact of the World Wide Web on the distribution of Child Sexual Abuse material, the Model...

Safeguarding podcast – The Global Threat Assessment with Nick Newman, PA Consulting

15th February, 2020    No Comments

In this SafeToNet Foundation podcast we discuss the Global Threat Assessment Report published at the WeProtect Global Alliance Addis Ababa conference Dec 2019 with PA Consulting’s Nick Newman. We...

Safeguarding podcast – the Brexit edition

08th February, 2020    No Comments

In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss Brexit and the impact it could have on the safeguarding of children in the online digital context. With contributions from Baroness Sal Brinton, President...

Safeguarding Podcast – It’s all about Privacy, DoH!

01st February, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast, Fred Langford CTO of the Internet Watch Foundation takes us through the impact on child safety of some encryption for privacy technology called DNS over HTTPS (DoH)....

Safeguarding Podcast – The Power of Zero

19th January, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk with former barrister and Chair of the non-profit section of Amnesty International UK, Nicholas Carlisle. As a Child & Family Psychotherapist, he used his own...

Safeguarding podcast – Carly’s Law with Sonya Ryan

04th January, 2020    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss every parents’ worst nightmare with the inspirational Sonya Ryan; how she turned her family’s desperate tragedy into a force for good by relentlessly...

Safeguarding Podcast – Year in Review 2019

29th December, 2019    No Comments

In this review of 2019 we remind ourselves of the work done by the Internet Watch Foundation, we discuss Brexit and Age Verification, we define and measure cyberbullying, we cover grooming for...

Safeguarding Podcast – Contextual Safeguarding with Dr Carlene Firmin MBE

21st December, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk with Dr Carlene Firmin MBE about Contextual Safeguarding and the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu. We also discuss why Contextual Safeguarding is counter cultural...

Safeguarding Podcast – Sharenting and Children’s Privacy in the Age of Social Media with Stacey Steinberg

01st December, 2019    No Comments

In this podcast we discuss the unintended consequences of sharenting, how parents’ desire to share with pride or to share to shame contravenes the rights of the child to privacy and how otherwise...

Safeguarding podcast – Safety by Design with Julie Inman-Grant

16th November, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk about Safety by Design with Australia’s e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant, an American in Australia protecting children around the world. She discusses...

Safeguarding Podcast – Tech for Good with Chris Ashworth of Nominet

02nd November, 2019    No Comments

In this podcast we discuss Tech for Good with Chris Ashworth of Nominet. We ask why is Nominet, a Domain Name Registrar buried deep within the online digital context infrastructure concerned about...

Safeguarding Podcast – The Central Drama of Life with Prof Yvonne Kelly

19th October, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the relationship between social media use and adolescent mental health with Professor Yvonne Kelly of University College London. Based on 11,000 14 year olds...

Safeguarding Podcast – the 11th Commandment with Father Zollner

05th October, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk with Father Zollner of the Vatican about the Pope’s 2017 Declaration of Rome which focussed on protecting children online. We discuss the Centre for Child...

Safeguarding podcast – The Rip Off Games with Vicki Shotbolt, CEO Parents’ Zone

19th September, 2019    No Comments

As Apple launch their Arcade games store, this safeguarding podcast explores and explains some of the nefarious practices that some online games companies use to exploit children and expose them to...

Safeguarding podcast – How Safe are our Children? A discussion with the NSPCC

09th September, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk to Holly Bentley and Martha Kirby of the NSPCC about the 2019 edition of the NSPCC’s “How Safe are our Children” report, which this year focusses on the...

Safeguarding Podcast – “I have a Dream” with Will Gardner CEO Childnet International

27th August, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast, Will Gardner CEO of Childnet International discusses international aspects of safeguarding in the online digital context. We explore international projects such as...

Safeguarding podcast – The Extraordinary Paradox with Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE

12th August, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast, Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE discusses the Online Harms white paper, whether the UNCRC is fit for the digital age and why the USA hasn’t signed up to it, whether...

Safeguarding podcast – Digital Ghosts and Blue Whales with SWGfL

03rd August, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast, David Wright Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre at SWGfL discusses digital ghost stories, Brexit, the ICO’s Age Appropriate design code, Age Verification and the...

Safeguarding podcast – The Good Samaritan with the ISPA

29th July, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Andrew Kernahan, Head of Public Affairs for the Internet Services Providers’ Association, the industry’s response to the Online Harms white paper....

Safeguarding podcast – View from the Staffroom with Derek Peaple

12th July, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast, award-winning Headteacher of Park House School Derek Peaple discusses how his school’s value-driven ethos guides them in their approach to cyberbullying, protecting...

Safeguarding podcast – Don’t go into the dark woods; a discussion with Baroness Sal Brinton

02nd July, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast Baroness Sal Brinton, President of the Liberal Democrats, discusses her work with the APPG Bullying, the Red Ballon Learner Trust, the Government’s Online Harms white...

DoH!

25th June, 2019    No Comments

There’s a problem coming and this problem is the unintended consequence of a well-intentioned development to protect privacy. This problem will mean that it will be much harder if not impossible to...

Safeguarding Podcast – Licensed to Operate with Jonny Shipp, Internet Commission

24th June, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we talk to Jonny Shipp of the Internet Commission about how their proposed frameworks of Digital Responsibility could be used to hold social media companies to account...

Safeguarding podcast – The Price of Gold with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

14th June, 2019    No Comments

Britain’s highest ranking Paralympian, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, discusses how the focus on medals has affected the culture within sport and the impact this can have on young athletes. Also...

Safeguarding podcast – the online grooming of Shamima Begum with Dal Babu

31st May, 2019    No Comments

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the online grooming of Shamima Begum with Dal Babu, former Chief Superintendent of the Met police. Was Shamima a terrorist, or was she a victim of online...

Safeguarding podcast – The Truth Engine with Peter Cochrane OBE

20th May, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding podcast – The Tangled Web with PA Consulting

07th May, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding Podcast – Choose Respect with the Anti-Bullying Alliance

24th April, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding Podcast – Age Verification with the DPA

12th April, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding Podcast – Cyberbullying and how to measure it

29th March, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding Podcast – Online Media Law

25th March, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding Podcast – Blinded by the Light

22nd March, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding podcast – Vulnerable Children in a Digital World

18th March, 2019    No Comments

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...

Safeguarding podcast – interview with Susie Hargreaves CEO IWF

07th February, 2019    No Comments

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...

Digital Responsibility

30th November, 2018    No Comments

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...

Blocking isn’t the solution

17th November, 2018    No Comments

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...

A youthful folly

16th November, 2018    No Comments

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...

Sharon Pursey speaking at Anti-Bullying Alliance’s parliamentary event

14th November, 2018    No Comments

Bully beef

06th November, 2018    No Comments

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...

Putting it all into context

20th September, 2018    No Comments

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...