Enhancing online safety for children overview

Episode 14,   Sep 02, 2019, 08:12 AM

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Do you have online safety measures in place to protect children and young people. This episode focuses on how to enhance online safety for children and young people and deal with issues that arise online.

Our host Chris Cloke and Gawain Griffiths, a Website Supervisor for the NSPCC discuss:

  • how to run online services safely and manage an online presence effectively adopting professional and personal life boundaries online, particularly, with social media and email accounts
  • the impact of bullying and how to prevent it online and respond appropriately 
  • who organisations can go to for resources, guidelines, templates and support
  • what children and young people tell Childline about keeping safe online.
These episodes were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme.

Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.

đź’¬ About the speakers

Chris Cloke was the Head of Safeguarding in Communities at the NSPCC for over thirty years.  He has a huge wealth of experience and knowledge in safeguarding, particularly within the voluntary and community sector where he has been a trustee and advisor to several voluntary groups. He has been a member of and worked closely with a number of local safeguarding children boards and was chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance for many years.

Gawain Griffiths is a Website Supervisor for the NSPCC and focuses on content development on the Childline website. Gawain has worked at the NSPCC for nine years and has developed a wide range of online resources to help keep children and young people safe in the online and offline world.

đź“š Related resources

> View our safeguarding resources for voluntary and community groups

> Learn more about online safety


Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros