Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety considerations

To support early years settings, the UKCIS Education Working Group has developed two documents to help early years settings managers and staff consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online. Safeguarding Children and Protecting Professionals in Early Years Settings: Online Safety Considerations for Managers – This guide will help managers…

Online Safety Live

As part of The UK Safer Internet Centre, the South West Grid for Learning are delivering a number of Online Safety Live sessions across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough between the 15th and 17th May 2019. These sessions are aimed at teachers, police officers, social workers, adoption and foster professionals, youth workers and many more professionals and practitioners working with children.…

Online Safeguarding Strategy 2021 – 2023

Table of Contents Click here to download the Online Safeguarding Strategy 2021/23 as a PDF Section One 1.   Introduction “I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1.    Anything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of…

Keeping Children Safe Online

Online Child Exploitation is a growing issue, highlighted even more in recent months during the COVID-19 lockdown period.  The internet and social media has become so integral to our daily lives, as we socialise and work online.  For children, the internet has become the new classroom and playground.  Sadly there are people out there that…

Online Abuse and Exploitation

Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe. At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim. Dr Tanya Byron, Safer Children in a Digital World (2008) We believe every child and young person should be…

Child Sexual Abuse Strategy 2021 – 2023

Under Review The Child Sexual Abuse Strategy is currently being updated and will be launched December 2023 Click here to download the Child Sexual Abuse Strategy as a pdf We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear Nelson Mandela Table of Contents Section One Introduction…