The National Youth Agency (NYA) has been granted a share of the strategy’s £340k fund by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to develop a new training module for qualified social workers.
The new module will be connected to the NYA Youth Work Curriculum and aims to upskill youth workers in media literacy skills, enabling them to discuss issues surrounding online safety with young people they support, the NYA has said.
Teachers and carers of disabled children will also benefit from funding as part of a new “train the trainer” programme.
They will be taught to teach others to understand how the online environment works, including how online news articles and social media posts are generated and paid for, and how to critically analyse the content they consume, according to DCMS.
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