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Once an image has been shared, perpetrators can use it to manipulate a child into providing further material, making threats or maintaining control.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharm #childprotection #safeguarding
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Once an image has been shared, perpetrators can use it to manipulate a child into providing further material, making threats or maintaining control.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharm #childprotection #safeguarding
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The proposed measures respond to an important feature of online child sexual exploitation: an image created on a child’s own device can become the starting point for grooming, coercion & sexual extortion.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharm #childprotection #safeguarding
@perkinskeighley.bsky.socialYesterday, the UK government announced plans for legislation requiring technology companies & apps used by children to prevent under-18s from taking or sharing nude images on their devices.
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#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharm #childprotection #safeguarding
@seced.bsky.socialSecEd's Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice, #CPD materials including safeguarding training scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news & research, online masterclasses & more: buff.ly/HyIFuW7 #schools #education #teaching #CPD #DSLs
@seced.bsky.socialMisogyny is shaping pupils’ attitudes at speed. From #algorithms to belonging, this article from the SecEd Safeguarding Digest platform explores why #misogyny is rising in #schools & what #teachers can do to challenge it – without sanctions: https://ow.ly/P0Lf50ZKCUp #Safeguarding #PSHE #Teaching
@seced.bsky.socialSafeguarding Digest offers bitesize #safeguarding summaries & key questions to keep your school staff up-to-date. This time: Safeguarding responsibility across your staff team: buff.ly/lkA7xFZ (Access to this article via SecEd Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/I0nq3Q8)
@safecic.bsky.socialBlended Learning (online course with Zoom follow-up) #Safeguarding Courses for February 2027
For more information and to sign up visit
https://www.safecic.co.uk/home/categories/blended-learning
@safecic.bsky.socialLots of new Open House #Safeguarding Courses for 2027 added to our Events page now!
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@seced.bsky.socialDSLs in #schools face increasing #safeguarding pressure yet remain the only professionals in child protection without supervision. Sara Alston – @seainclusion.bsky.social – on what #supervision is not & why reflective, non judgemental supervision must become essential, not optional: buff.ly/1TodHrg
@headteacherupdate.bsky.socialWhen #behaviour is read as defiance instead of survival, #safeguarding risk increases. Jaz Ampaw-Farr reframes behaviour through a safeguarding lens & offers 3 leadership actions for #schools: https://ow.ly/lKlE50ZKpzh #teachers #teaching #education
@seced.bsky.socialWhen #behaviour is read as defiance instead of survival, #safeguarding risk for children increases. Jaz Ampaw-Farr reframes behaviour through a safeguarding lens & offers 3 leadership actions for schools: https://ow.ly/zQVB50ZKpw6 #teaching #teachers
@seced.bsky.socialA warning for #school #safeguarding? 1 in 20 young people now report having no close friends. New @ippr.org research links rising #loneliness, social media use, declining youth services & worsening #mentalhealth: buff.ly/OaiWUzP #schools #education #edusky
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Alongside safer platforms and stronger systems, we need adults who are equipped to notice, listen & respond without judgement – & environments in which children know, however an experience began, they can tell someone and be taken seriously.
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Protecting children online cannot mean placing the responsibility on children to recognise every risk or keep themselves safe.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #safeguarding
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Yet more than 40% of experiences were never disclosed to anyone, with children describing fear, shame, confusion & uncertainty about where to turn for help.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #safeguarding
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At the same time, messaging & gaming spaces could provide opportunities for trust to be exploited.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #safeguarding
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Crucially, the findings challenge some common assumptions about online abuse: 57% of cases involved someone the child already knew.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #safeguarding
@perkinskeighley.bsky.socialNew @unicef.org research estimates that almost 1 in 5 children aged 12–17 across 21 countries experienced at least one form of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation or abuse in a single year.
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#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #safeguarding
@headteacherupdate.bsky.socialHeadteacher Update's Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice, #CPD materials including safeguarding training scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news & research, online masterclasses & more: buff.ly/Yr2z4PM #schools #education #CPD #DSLs
@ajbezos.bsky.social26. Cambridge received safeguarding complaints about James Orr housing postgraduates who mingled with race science advocates at his home. It did nothing. Duty of care apparently ends at the porter's lodge. #Safeguarding #HigherEd