Safeguarding in Online Contexts
🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
🎧All practitioners and leaders with a safeguarding responsibility, pastoral support, preventative education providers, online safety leads, volunteers who come into contact with children.
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
Course outline:
Discover the essential online contexts across key safeguarding topics. Explore what to watch for, how to respond, and strategies to minimise harm while empowering children and young people in the digital world.
Unable to attend? Access the webinar recording post-event.
Training topics will include:
- Understanding online contexts in safeguarding
- Mental health considerations in digital environments
- Staff conduct and digital responsibilities
- Child advocacy, rights, and the digital landscape
- Identification, response, and recovery strategies.
Learning outcomes:
- Deepened understanding of online contexts in safeguarding
- Enhanced confidence in supporting mental health online
- Insight into digital conduct’s impact on organisational safety and child welfare
- Strategies to balance online safety with child advocacy and rights
- Proficiency in identification, response, and recovery practices.
Speaker:

Kirra Pendergast is an internationally recognised leader in human-digital risk intelligence. With over 30 years at the intersection of cybersecurity, governance, and education, she has advised governments, corporations, and schools across five continents. Founder of Safe on Social and Ctrl + Shft, her frameworks shape policy and culture in over 1,200 organisations worldwide. A survivor of cyber abuse and a neurodivergent systems thinker, Kirra is a sought-after keynote speaker and expert witness featured by BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post. Based in Florence, she champions digital safety and ethical technology as essential human rights.