Keeping children and young people safe in a digital world LSCB survey of pupils, teachers, parents/carers and other professionals

Challenges Greater exposure than ever before to the digital world Help children develop the skills to navigate safely through this digital world Encourage them to create a positive digital footprint Increasing (and rightly so) pressures to reduce filtering and blocks within schools and across LAs and regions (Hwb)

Background Conference organsied by FWLSCB at Deeside College for practitioners and Young People Young People’s panel Assumptions

Children know Practitioner skills Policies, checks and balances Curriculum being taught

Assumptions being addressed through the questionnaire Wider range of evidence required ‘Just because we use facebook, you think we know how to stay safe’ Enabling the digital classroom – not enabled now?

Children use the internet in a variety of locations

And for lots of different reasons ….

If they can get on the internet, can they get what they need in schools?

What next? Further analysis of results More access to digital space More collaborating and participating We need to teach young people the way to interact with the digital world appropriately, to build their sense of entitlement into a sense of responsibility and to work with them on effective and safe strategies for protection.