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

Leave a Comment / Podcast / By Neil Fairbrother

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 and how the use of AI can obfuscate and obscure much needed transparency. We also discuss the Online Harms white paper, the regulation of […]

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Digital Responsibility

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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 impacts cyberbullying has on young people from age 12: Ofcom [1] says that 93% of children have a smartphone by the

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Blocking isn’t the solution

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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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Putting it all into context

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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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