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 paper and its lack of a definition of cyberbullying, how schools should be dealing with the mental health issues cyberbullying causes and the impact of Brexit […]
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 White paper. We define Child Sexual Exploitation Abuse (CSEA) and discuss the “tradecraft” of predatory pedophiles, we explore the dark web, outline the structure of the “safeguarding
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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 children in the digital context. Just in case you prefer to read rather than listen, here’s a lightly edited transcript: http://traffic.libsyn.com/safetonetfoundation/SafeToNet_Foundation_Podcast_-_Blinded_by_the_Light.mp3 Neil
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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 deleting online child pornography. It’s not an explicit episode but it’s nonetheless a tough topic. If you’d rather read than listen, then the transcript below
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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 and not seeing the point. 1882 “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we [the British] do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”William Preece Engineer-in-Chief
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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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