Digital safeguarding conference explores how to protect children online amid pandemic
Fiona Simpson
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Leading online safety experts and safeguarding professionals will share skills to ensure young people are protected against increasing online harms at the 4th annual Children and Young People Now Safeguarding Children in the Digital Age conference, which is taking place online.
As young people spend more time online, both learning and socialising, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ever increasing threats to their wellbeing and safety have intensified, with rises in both online bullying and grooming reported during the health crisis.
Set against this backdrop, online safety experts and safeguarding professionals will share key insights and best practice to equip those supporting vulnerable children with the understanding, skills and confidence to ensure children and young people stay safe in the digital age.
CYP Now’s Safeguarding Children in the Digital Age conference will run 10 live digital sessions over four consecutive days from 11 - 13 January.
In addition to the two-hour live sessions, there will be live Q&As with the presenters, on-demand access to all sessions for up to three months after the live conference, and opportunities to engage online with a range of exhibitors and view their products or services.
Live sessions will include:
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Digital safety in the 2020s…and beyond, Jonathan Taylor, Online Safety Consultant, Be Safe Online
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Gambling and gaming: how to protect young people, Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE, Director, National Centre for Behavioural Addictions, UK
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Why are some children more susceptible to CSE, radicalisation and extremism and what prevents them from speaking out? Traci Good, Online Safety Consultant, plus young people from the Digital Leaders programme
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Young people’s mental health: building digital resilience and good self-care, Dr Richard Graham, Nightingale Hospital, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and Dr Bernadka Dubicka, Chair, Child and Adolescent Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Enabling vulnerable young people to be safe online, Adrienne Katz, Director, Youthworks
The conference will be of interest to senior managers of children and young people services, commissioners, charity chief executives, policy officers and academics, as well as practitioners working in early help teams, children’s centres, Troubled Families teams, mental health services and public health teams.
Full conference programme and register at www.safeguardingdigital.co.uk/home