🏷️ From £235
🎧 All those working with children, young people or vulnerable individuals, including DSLs, DSOs and DDSLs
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up

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In an age where digital technology is included in every part of life; from education and work to social life, the practice of safeguarding has fundamentally changed. Especially in the digital landscape. 
 
Protecting young people and vulnerable individuals today means engaging with complex online environments and emerging digital risks, not just traditional face-to-face contexts. 
 
The Digital Safeguarding Conference is a practical, forward-looking event for professionals dedicated to evolving safeguarding practice to keep pace with digital transformation. You’ll gain fresh insights from expert voices, explore real-world challenges from AI to online harms, and be equipped with strategies you can apply immediately in your organisation or as a parent. 

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Programme:

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09:00 – 09:15

Welcome and Introduction

Setting the scene for the day by exploring how technology is reshaping childhood and the opportunities and challenges this presents for safeguarding professionals.

Speaker: TBC 

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09:15 – 09:30 – BREAK

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09:30 – 10:15

Childhood Reimagined: Development, Identity and Wellbeing in a Connected World

Explore how digital environments are influencing children’s development, identity, resilience and wellbeing, and what this means for safeguarding practice.

Speaker: TBC 

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10:15 – 10:30 – BREAK

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10:30 – 11:15

If Attachment Is the Vaccine, Are We Investing Enough in Relationships?

Speaker: Sharon Kuhn, Executive Coach, Author, Speaker, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council

Examine the protective role of trusted relationships and belonging in helping children navigate an increasingly digital world.

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11:15 – 11:30 – BREAK

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11:30 – 12:15

Trauma Has Gone Digital

Understand how online experiences can impact children’s emotional wellbeing and explore trauma-informed approaches to responding to digital harm.  

Speaker: TBC 

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12:15 – 13:00 Lunch

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13:00 – 13:45

The Search for Belonging: Radicalisation, Racism and Digital Childhoods: A flagship conference session

Explore how children’s need and identity and belonging can make them vulnerable to online radicalisation, hate, misinformation and harmful online communities.

Speaker: TBC 

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13:45 – 14:00 – BREAK

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14:00 – 14:30

The Parents We Need, The Parents We Have

Discover how professionals can support parents to build children’s digital resilience, strengthen relationships and navigate the challenges of raising children in an AI- enabled world.

Speaker: TBC 

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14:30 – 15:00

What Can the World Teach Us About Childhood?

An international perspective on children’s rights, digital wellbeing and innovative approaches to safeguarding children in an increasingly connected world.

Speaker: TBC 

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15:00 – 15:15 – BREAK

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15:15 – 15:45

What Must Safeguarding Become? Future Skills for the Safeguarding Workforce

Explore the knowledge, leadership and organisational capabilities needed to prepare the safeguarding workforce for emerging challenges.

Speaker: TBC 

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15:45 – 16:15

Children’s Voices: Growing Up in a Connected World

Hear directly from young people as they share their experiences of growing up online and what they believe adults need to understand about safety, relationships and belonging.

Speaker: TBC 

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16:15 – 16:30

Closing Reflections: From Protection to Flourishing

A closing reflection on how safeguarding can move beyond preventing harm to creating conditions that enable every child to flourish in a digital world.

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Speakers:

Sharon A. Kuhn,  Executive Coach, Author, Speaker, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council

With more than 30 years of experience in talent discovery, brain science, emotional intelligence, and trauma-informed work with individuals, families, and organizations. Sharon is the author of Empathy, A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential and creator of Your Interior Design™, a brain-based identity framework designed to develop secure attachment, selfunderstanding, empathy, emotional intelligence, and human potential. Sharon’s work integrates neuroscience, attachment, interpersonal neurobiology, and traumainformed care. She believes that understanding ourselves and building strong, trusted relationships are foundational to emotional regulation, resilience, confidence, and the ability to engage the full potential of ourselves and others. Through her Identity Leadership Model, she helps people of all ages develop the self-awareness and relational capacity needed to create environments where people can feel connected, valued, and able to thrive

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