Digital Parenting: Safeguarding Children in Homes and Schools
🏷️ From £90
🎧 Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) and Digital Safeguarding Leads, school leaders and teachers, safeguarding professionals, social workers, youth workers, charity safeguarding leads, Parents and carers interested in digital safety
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Course Outline:
Children and young people are growing up in an increasingly digital world where online platforms play a central role in learning, social interaction, and identity development. While digital technology offers significant educational and social benefits, it also exposes children to a range of safeguarding risks including online exploitation, cyberbullying, harmful content, and emerging risks associated with new technologies.
Parents and schools share a critical responsibility in supporting children to navigate the online world safely. However, many families and educators feel ill-equipped to keep pace with rapidly evolving digital platforms, apps, and online behaviours. This session, delivered through Safeguarding and Child Protection Association, will explore practical strategies for supporting digital parenting at home and strengthening safeguarding approaches within schools, helping professionals and parents work collaboratively to protect children online.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this session participants will:
- Understand the digital environments children and young people are engaging with
- Recognise key online safeguarding risks, including grooming, cyberbullying and harmful content
- Understand how schools can support families to build safer digital behaviours
- Identify practical approaches to responding to online safeguarding concerns
Key topics covered
- Children’s digital lives: understanding platforms, gaming and social media
- Online harms and emerging safeguarding risks
- Digital parenting: supervision, boundaries and trust
- The role of schools in digital safeguarding education
- When online concerns become safeguarding concerns
- Strengthening collaboration between parents, schools and safeguarding professionals
Speaker: TBC
