Traci Good, founder and chief of the i-vengers online safety project, told attendees of the need to “keep talking” to children to make them aware of the dangers of grooming.
According to the NSPCC, “grooming is when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them”.
Good said: “We talk about it all the time. We talk about stranger danger. We talk about all of this sort of stuff. Surely if a child’s being groomed, they know that they’re being groomed? For me, the simple answer is no. Absolutely not.”
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