CYP Now - Girlguiding UK ensures online safety is at the heart of safeguarding policy and practice

Uniformed youth group redrafts online safety policies to reflect new risks that emerged during the pandemic.

Girlguiding UK’s new policies are in response to concerns from young people participating in its annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey

The policy is accessible to a younger audience and has helped local Guide groups to deliver digital safeguarding education

Annually, hundreds of instances of safeguarding concerns, some about online activity, are logged using the group's centralised system

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Prompted by the impact of Covid and the necessity for youth provision to go online, Girlguiding UK updated its policies on digital safeguarding in 2020.

Using young people's feedback from its annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey as well as input from its youth steering group Amplify, it established a new policy alongside a practical online landing page informing young people, volunteers and youth practitioners about the issues and risks.

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