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The UK Council for Child Internet Safety released new guidance last autumn for schools on sexting - the sharing of sexually explicit images and messages among young people.
Charlotte Aynsley, director of E-Safety Training and Consultancy, was responsible for writing the guidance, and went on to develop training for schools and other professionals working with children.
The half-day training focuses on "youth-produced sexual imagery" - pictures, as opposed to text, shared from one young person to another usually via the internet on a smartphone.
"We touch on issues such as if a child was to be coerced or blackmailed into sharing a picture by an adult, but the focus is around children sharing images on a peer-to-peer basis," explains Aynsley.
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