The Doncaster Online Safety Campaign is working to support professionals, parents and carers help keep children safe in their online world, to help them feel confident in talking about online safety with the children they know and work with, so that they in turn know that they can always talk to someone about anything that is worrying them.
Campaign Update –
Successful Professional Conference on the 23rd July!
Over 90 professionals working with children and families across the city attended a conference at The Cast Theatre to find out more about Doncaster Safety Net – the 12-month multi-agency multiagency campaign providing resources and advice to professionals to help keep children safe in their digital world. Thank you to everyone for making it such a great success.
Guest speakers included Rhiannon-Faye McDonald from the Marie Collins Foundation who spoke about her own experiences of abuse and key considerations for professionals when working with young people. We also heard from Sam Firth who leads on Report Remove for Childline and David Barthorpe from Kooth. Guests also watched a live performance of The Net: Sam’s Story – a specially-commissioned stage show designed to share online safety tips with primary schools, which will be shared with hundreds of pupils in schools across the city. It tells the story of Sam, a popular girl who believes she is tech savvy, but whose life changes when she begins sharing images on platforms inappropriate for her age.
We have already toured this play in 16 primary schools across Doncaster, with nearly 1500 children seeing the play, the reaction has been terrific so far. And now thanks to the support of the DSCP we have secured additional funding to offer another tour, trying to reach the schools we couldn’t get to last time.
Karen Seaman, Well Doncaster and Chair of Doncaster Safety Net, said: “Children’s voices are at the heart of everything we do, but the online world can be intimidating for adults, parents and carers who might not feel confident talking about it.
“This campaign aims to help adults realise that they don’t need to be a tech expert to help keep children safe online. By being curious and having open conversations with children by learning from these workshops, online resources and by listening to your child, you can help them stay safer online.”
The campaign has organised a series of workshops to help support parents, carers and relevant professionals to feel confident in talking about online safety with the children they know and work with, so that children and young people know that they can always talk to someone about anything that is worrying them.
The first dates in this series have been announced, the following will be virtual sessions via Teams:
- Tuesday 10th September at 6pm
- Wednesday 18th September at 4pm
- Wednesday 2nd October at 12pm
- Tuesday 8th October at 6pm
- Monday 21st October at 4pm
- Wednesday 30th October at 12pm
To register your interest in one of these dates, or if you would like to host an online safety workshop for your school, community group or business please contact yhandnecampaigns@nspcc.org.uk
We can offer these sessions virtually or face to face (with a minimum of 20 attendees for the latter) at a time to suit your group’s needs.
Published 10th September 2024
