Course outline:

Online safety is an ever-evolving subject, and one that safeguarding practitioners and leaders in governance most commonly say they feel they need to increase knowledge, skills and competence.

This webinar aims to ensure that safeguarding practitioners and leaders in governance have the most up to date briefing enabling them to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence in this area of safeguarding and ensuring that children affected by online safety concerns receive the same quality of safeguarding response as those impacted by more traditional safeguarding concerns.

Unable to attend? A post webinar recording will be available for purchase.

Training topics will include:

• The current scope of online safety
• Prohibition and children’s rights
• What’s new in online safety

Learning outcomes:

• Feel more confident and competent in online safety practice and its implications for safeguarding
• Consider the implications of prohibition initiatives in the context of preventative education, children’s voice and children’s rights
• Understand how current debates and future developments in online safety will inform safeguarding practice

Audience: All staff involved in promoting online safety, safeguarding professionals and leaders, staff and volunteers with oversight and scrutiny responsibility for safeguarding and online safety.

Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Cost:

• SACPA Member Rate: £90
• SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £45
• Non-member Rate: £180*

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Speaker:

Karl Hopwood is an independent online safety expert. He is a member of UKCIS (UK Council for Internet Safety) and sits on the UKCIS evidence group, education working group and the early warning group as well as on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre. He also sits on the Roblox trust and safety board where he represents the Insafe network. He was recently part of an expert steering group with TikTok looking at harmful and dangerous online challenges.

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, the UN and several Local Authorities within the UK and in Europe.

As an ex primary headteacher, he continues to work closely in schools across Europe with children, young people, parents, teachers and governors to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl has been employed for the last 16 years as an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU Better Internet for Kids programme where he is responsible for the coordination of safer internet helplines across Europe. Karl was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Marie Collins Foundation for 7 years, a charity which supports young people who have been sexually abused and exploited online and is Chair of the board of trustees of Childnet international and Chair of the executive committee of SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Karl has recently worked with a team developing a national online safety strategy in Rwanda and chaired the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) working group to re-write their Child Online Protection Guidance.