“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 for your sexual gratification, you’d invent the internet.” Dal Babu, former Chief Superintendent Met Police in this Safeguarding Podcast Have we […]
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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 place? What indeed are the impacts on the victim? What part does the internet and social media play in its enactment? And what does
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 how it could expose children to harm. I pitched an article based on this to the Institute of Telecoms Professionals for their
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 radicalisation as well as for sexual exploitation, we delve into the digital age of consent, we ask whether the UN CRC is fit
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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 to traditional child care systems and why the dynamics of adolescence are an absolute nightmare to children’s services. http://traffic.libsyn.com/safetonetfoundation/SafeToNet_Foundation_podcast_-_Contextual_Safeguarding_with_Carlene_Firmin_MBE.mp3 There’s a lightly edited transcript below
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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 Government’s statutory guidance ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018’. What is Contextual Safeguarding and how does it apply online? Contextual Safeguarding recognises that harm to young people happens in
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