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Healthy Relationships Resources from CEOP (August 2022)
CEOP has released a new resource created to help develop understanding around healthy relationships and unhealthy behaviours for children aged 12-14 to help protect them from harmful sexual behaviour both off and online.Respecting me, you, us – RSE lessons (thinkuknow.co.uk)
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Digital Wellbeing- June 2022 Online Safety Updates
Online safety and the dark web
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has released resources for use by professionals and parents and carers to understand the dark web. Dark Web Explained (thinkuknow.co.uk) (for professionals) The Dark Web Explained (thinkuknow.co.uk) (for parents and carers)
Keeping Children Safe: Tackling Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour Online Conference
This free online conference from Stop It Now! Scotland takes place on Monday 27th June 14:00 – 17:00. This online conference will showcase learning from Reducing Online Sexual Abuse (ROSA) project that ran between 2018 and 2021 in Glasgow. The conference aims to reach practitioners and operational and strategic managers in social care, education, police and health settings. Keep Children Safe : Tackling Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour Tickets, Mon 27 Jun 2022 at 14:00 | Eventbrite
Online Bullying Podcast
Ofcom has released the second episode of their new podcast series ‘Life online’ which explores themes around online safety. This episode centres on cyberbullying and includes three teenagers sharing their own experiences of online bullying. Online Bullying in the Digital Playground – Life Online | Podcast on Spotify
Online safety SEND resources
Childnet has released new resources around online safety to support young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) aged 11 and over. Thrive Online | Childnet
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Online Safety- WIZE Updates May 2022
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has released new figures on child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation online. Findings include: 97% of all child sexual abuse material identified in 2021 featured the sexual abuse of girls, compared with 65% of all imagery ten years ago.
The Internet Watch Foundation | IWF | IWF
Channel 4 has aired a documentary on the Metaverse, which looks at the harmful content young people could be exposed to on the 3D virtual online community.
Inside the Metaverse Are You Safe? Dispatches – All 4 (channel4.com)
The May 2022 edition of the CyberScotland Bulletin
has been published.
CLPL Opportunity
Keeping Children Safe: Tackling Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour Conference
Monday 27th June 14:00 – 17:00 online via Microsoft Teams
Cost: FREE
Stop It Now! Scotland, in partnership with the RS Macdonald Trust.
Technology assisted harmful sexual behaviour online is when children and young people use the internet or technology such as mobile phones to engage in sexual activity that may be harmful to themselves or others. It is a growing issue for all professionals with a role safeguarding children and young people.
This online conference will showcase learning from Reducing Online Sexual Abuse (ROSA) project that ran between 2018 and 2021 in Glasgow. The project was co-located in Shawlands Academy a large high school in Glasgow and the HALT project for children who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour. Throughout the four years we worked with young people who displayed online harmful sexual behaviour and also engaged collaboratively with young people to develop initiatives that prevent online peer on peer sexual abuse, harassment and exploitation in school settings.
To register for this FREE event please visit Eventbrite here.
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WIZE- Digital Wellbeing- Important Cyber Safety Information
The National Cyber Security Centre are encouraging schools and Local Authorities to sign up for the following services :
Mail Check – supports schools and Local Authorities with keeping messages encrypted as they are sent over the internet. Mail check also help prevent various attacks.
Web check -Web Check checks your websites for common web vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. The checks are designed to impose low load on sites and to avoid damaging them.
These are two pioneering services that help organisations identify potential cyber security issues and fix them promptly.
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WIZE- Digital Wellbeing Updates- May 2022
Digital Wellbeing Updates for May 2022
Digital Wellbeing ResourcesTopic: Digital Wellbeing | SWGfL Children’s wellbeing and digital literacy The London School of Economics has written an article on how digital literacy interventions can safeguard young people from the impact of online harm.What do we know about the roles of digital literacy and online resilience in fostering young people’s wellbeing?
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Online Safety Updates – April 2022- Child Protection Committees Scotland
Please find below an update of information from Child Protection Committees Scotland.
Technology Assisted Sexual Harm Webinar
NOTA Scotland and the Forensic Network will host this free webinar on 29/04/22, 13:00 – 15:00. Stuart Allardyce, Stop It Now! Scotland, Scott Hunter, Education Scotland and DC Stewart Fleming, Police Scotland will deliver presentations on Tackling Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools and the ‘You, Me, Together’ Educational Resource. Sexual Harm: Young People in Focus April 2022 (eventsforce.net)
Scottish Government Online Safety Campaign
The Scottish Government national Child Online Safety campaign aims to increase awareness of the importance of online safety to parents and carers of children aged 8-11 year olds. There is a Toolkit for partners and a supporting hub with practical ideas and advice for parents. Child Online Safety – Partner Resources | Parent Club
Online safety and relationships
CEOP has created a new website for children aged 11-18 that has information on online safety and relationships. 11-18s | CEOP Education (thinkuknow.co.uk)
Children’s media use
Ofcom has released a report exploring how media was understood and used by children and young people aged 3-17 in the UK in 2021. Findings include: in the past 12 months, 36% of children aged 8-17 said they had seen something ‘worrying or nasty’ online. Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2022 – Ofcom
Digital Wellbeing Updates-Ofcom Annual Study on Media Habits
Reported by BBC News-Rise of the five-year-old ‘TikTots’
Children as young as five use social media, despite most platforms having rules users must be over the age of 13.
An annual study into media habits, from Ofcom, highlighted the mini social-media mavens, with a third of parents of five- to seven-year-olds revealing their child had a social-media profile.
Among the eight- to 11-year-olds who used social media, the most popular platform was TikTok, with one in every three having an account.
TikTok is a “strictly a 13+ platform”.
A spokesman for the viral video-sharing platform said: “We have processes in place to enforce our minimum-age requirements, both at the point of sign-up and through the continuous proactive removal of suspected under-age accounts from the platform.
“Nothing is more important to us than the safety of our community, especially young people.”
‘Really striking’
The report noted even younger children – TikTots as Ofcom dubbed them – were watching videos on TikTok, including 16% of the three- to four-year-olds.
But this could be children being shown videos by a parent or other older person and does not imply they have own accounts.
Ofcom strategy and research director Yih-Choung Teh said the findings were “really striking”.
“I have an 11-year-old and an eight-year-old,” he said, “60% of their peers have a social-media profile, which I find a bit surprising.
“Big-tech platforms set minimum ages in their terms and conditions – but it does seem that they aren’t really being enforced.”
But Mr Teh also said parents had to be aware of what their children were doing online.
“It’s not always very easy to tell what they’re watching and I think, as a parent, we have responsibilities to have a good dialogue with our kids about what they are doing,” he said.
But the survey also found 22% of parents of three- to four year-olds and 38% of parents of eight- to 11-year-olds said they would allow their child to have a profile on social media before they reached the minimum age.
Incognito mode
“Many children could be tactically using other accounts or ‘finstas’ – fake Instagrams – to conceal aspects of their online lives from parents,” Ofcom suggested.
Instagram is an over-13’s platform and offers a number of parental controls.
But across social media many children choose to have multiple profiles on the same social media app or site the survey suggested.
Two out of every three of eight- to 11-year-olds surveyed used multiple accounts or profiles on social media, the regulator said.
“Among these, almost half (46%) have an account just for their family to see,” it noted.
The survey also found one out of every five of children aged 12-17, surfed in incognito mode or deleted their browsing history.
Digital natives
The just published Online Safety Bill makes it a legal requirement for sites and platforms that show pornography to prevent children accessing inappropriate or harmful material.
But a significant minority may already be adept at working around technologies designed to prevent access to inappropriate material, the survey suggests.
One in 20 children “circumvented parental controls put in place to stop them visiting certain apps and sites (6%)” Ofcom said.
Mr Teh said those who were digital natives would often have skills beyond many of their parents.
The key was “ensuring that we have a good awareness of the online environment, what tools that we can use in terms of parental controls, but also that we have conversations with our kids about what they’re doing”.
But the study also found the children had many positive experiences online.
Despite significant concerns, 53% of the 13- to 17-year-olds told Ofcom being online was good for their mental health, while 17% disagreed.
The survey also found 70% of the adults were confident they could spot misinformation – but only 20% could correctly identify the tell-tale signs of a genuine post.
Among the 12- to 17-year-olds, these proportions were nearly 75% and just over 10%.
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Analysis Mike Wendling, BBC Trending
Perhaps the really surprising statistic in the Ofcom research is so many people – more than two out of every three – are pretty sceptical about what they see online.
But there is one problem – they are vastly overconfident in their abilities to pick out truth from fiction.
Only about one in four of those surveyed could spot a fake social-media profile in practice.
And while a common trope stereotypes misinformation spreaders as clueless boomers spouting off on Facebook, digital natives are not much better at fake spotting.
Only about one in 10 of the 12- to 17-year-olds could identify the tell-tale signs of a genuine post.
And remember, the UK is among the most wired and technology-savvy countries in the world.
When it comes to media literacy, there is big work to be done.
The Online Safety Bill requires the technology giants to remove the most harmful misinformation and boost Ofcom’s powers.
But with a problem this complex – and misinformation polluting the online conversation about everything from Covid to the war in Ukraine – nobody is under the illusion it can be magically legislated away.
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RSHP Resources Update and Training Offer-ASN
Please click on the link below for an update on ASN Resources that have been added to the national RSHP Resource.
Briefing Information about new materials on the RSHP national resource
To take this forward, Education Scotland, Scottish Government, NHS and Rosslyn School (Fife) will present a webinar.
New RSHP Resource for CYP with complex ASN – Thursday 28th April 4-5pm
At this webinar we will:
- introduce this exciting new resource which compliments the main national rshp.scot resource
- take you through the resource itself
- demonstrate how one special school is already using the materials with their children and parents.
The webinar will be facilitated by Education Scotland, Scottish Government, NHS and Rosslyn School (Fife). To register for a place on the event please use the link below:
New RSHP Resource for learners with complex needs Tickets, Thu 28 Apr 2022 at 16:00 | Eventbrite
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Childnet Film Competition
Childnet invites all UK based schools and youth groups to enter the Childnet Film Competition 2022!
Open to all UK based young people aged 7-18, schools and youth groups are invited to create a two minute film or storyboard in response to the competition theme:
All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online. What can we all do to play our part?
The challenge is to create a film that promotes positive use of the internet which can help other young people stay safe online.
There are four categories to enter this year – simply click on your chosen category below to find out more:
The competition is now OPEN, and schools and youth groups have until Wednesday 8th June 2022 to return your films .