Sacpa – Delivering Preventative Education in Digital Safeguarding

• Date: May 10, 2023
• Time: 13:30 – 15:30
• Cost: Sacpa Full Member – £100, Affiliate Members – £150, Non-member – £200
• Audience: This half-day seminar all safeguarding leaders, practitioners, pastoral support staff, staff responsible for PSHE, early help and statutory interventions and colleagues working in informal education settings such as clubs, youth work and youth organisations.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline

In the ever evolving world of Digital Safeguarding, access to evidence-based interventions and preventative education for children and young people is critical.

Project Evolve is a free digital literacy toolkit based on UKCIS framework “Education for a Connected World” that supports online development in children and young people.  It enables safeguarding practitioners, teachers and case workers to identify and deliver tailored interventions and schemes of work, to measure competencies of individuals and groups and provides data on measurable outcomes.

This half-day interactive seminar has been developed support teachers of PSHE, pastoral support staff and case workers in early help, social care, youth justice and youth work responsible for delivering interventions around e-safety with children from the early years up to 18 years old.

The authors of the toolkit take delegates through how to navigate the 600+ teaching and intervention resources across various e-safety topics, how to plan schemes of delivery for individuals and groups and how to measure outcomes.

Training topics will include:

• What we know about online harm
• The role of preventative education and intervention for vulnerable children in need of support and services
• Project Evolve the toolkit
• Identifying and assessing preventative education and intervention needs of individual children and groups
• Tailoring preventative teaching and intervention to age, stage of development and individuals needs
• Measuring outcomes of the toolkit in preventative education, early help, youth justice and statutory safeguarding plans
• Developing an effective safeguarding strategy through toolkits

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates have an opportunity to update their knowledge on the latest trends in online harms
• Delegates will review how Project Evolve toolkit supports preventative education and targeted interventions for all children and young people and those who are particularly vulnerable
• Delegates will have in-depth knowledge of how to harness best use from the toolkit in their work
• Delegates will experience how using the toolkit to identify needs, tailor interventions and schemes of work and measure outcomes
• Delegates will have the opportunity to share best practice and work directly with authors of the toolkit.

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Speakers:

Ken Corish, eSafety Consultant, SWGfL

Ken is eSafety Consultant with South West Grid for Learning and Chair of their successful eSafety Development Group. He has wide education experience, drawing on twenty-five years as a teacher and deputy head and ten years as an Education Adviser for ICT in Plymouth, UK. These roles not only include the monitoring of standards in ICT in schools, but also managing Plymouth’s education broadband strategy. His subsequent work around esafety education, intervention and school improvement has developed from a pragmatic understanding of school need. This work includes education programmes for students and staff that range from cyberbullying to protecting professional identity; creation of school improvement strategies and production of innovative esafety support materials. He works with a broad range of national and international organisations that include Childnet, CEOP, InSafe, NCMEC, FOSI and Internet Watch Foundation. He recently presented at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt.

David Wright, Director UK Safer Internet Centre, SWGfL

David is Director UK Safer Internet Centre at SWGfL; the national awareness centre and part of the European Insafe network. David has worked extensively in online safety for 20 years with children, schools and wider agencies. He advises a number of Governments, organisations and industry partners on online safety strategy and policy and has recently been appointed as an expert child online protection adviser to the UN ITU David has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. He is a member of UKCIS as well as the Twitter Trust and Safety Council. David has recently been invited to be a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety David has led pioneering work, the development of award winning resources, and the establishment of the helplines