BSA/SACPA – E-safety compliance: keeping up with developments

Name: BSA/SACPA – E-safety compliance: keeping up with developments
Start: 2024-09-06T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-06T11:00:00+01:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

September 6 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Date: September 06, 2024
Time: 10:00 – 11:00
Cost: BSA/SACPA Member Rate: £90, BSA/SACPA Additional Full Member Rate: £45, BSA Affiliate Member Rate: £120, BSA Additional Affiliate Member Rate: £45, Non-member Rate: £180
Audience: All practitioners and leaders with a safeguarding responsibility, pastoral support, preventative education providers, online safety leads, volunteers who come into contact with children.
Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Course outline:

This session will look at the latest guidance, trends and headlines in online safety. It will highlight the benefits that are to be gained from the online world and also look at the challenges and risks in a balanced way. The latest research will be shared along with some strategies for colleagues working with children and young people and children and young people themselves.

This webinar will support knowledge and confidence of practitioners and leaders responsible for oversight of safeguarding and online safety, including those involved in risk assessment, delivering online safety interventions and curriculum. The event is suitable for colleagues working in education, health, youth services, early help, private, charity and third sector organisations.

Training topics will include:

Provide an overview of the latest guidance, trends and headlines in online safety
Signpost useful sites and resources to inform and educate about online safety
Review strategies for meaningful engagement with children and young people as they navigate the online world
Signpost links to support risk assessment, intervention and education sessions with young people who are particularly vulnerable online.

Learning outcomes:

Delegates will review how `Education for a Connected World’ framework can support their digital safeguarding activity
Delegates will have a greater understanding of key guidance, legislation and trends
Delegates will be signposted to the latest useful sites and resources to inform and educate about online safety and managing online life.

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Karl Hopwood, E-Safety Expert

Karl Hopwood is an esafety expert. He is a member of UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) and sits on the advisory board for the new UK Safer Internet Centre. Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency), the European Commission and several Local Authorities within the UK. As an ex headteacher, he continues to work closely with children, young people, parents and teachers to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl works closely with the Boarding Schools’ Association and supports many of their schools. He is also an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU safer internet programme.