Online Safety Services

Training for Foster Carers

The course is designed to develop greater understanding of the risks young people face daily when using mobile phones, tablets, gaming consoles and other internet-connected devices. It focuses on increasing carer knowledge of internet-connected devices and the skills to set appropriate safety controls. It also covers carers’ responsibilities in line with their internal policies.

Training for Young People
in Care

These sessions are designed to be interactive discovery aids that help the young people who tell us how they feel about the safety of social media and other online platforms and to build their digital resilience.

Online Safety for Foster Carers

The stated outcome of these sessions is to outline the key issues that attendees need be aware of to support online safeguarding for young people in care. The session is designed to be interactive; we actively encourage attendees to participate and ask questions relating to any particular concerns/issues they have.

Online Safety Data Protection and Digital Resilience Training

Some of the topics we cover includes:

• The growing use of the Internet in young people’s lives

• Online Harms – Government response

• What happened to parental controls?

• Understanding Privacy Settings

• Risky apps and sites you should know about

• Gaming – apps and side chats

• Data Protection and Security

Training can be delivered online or on-site.

Online Safety for Young People

The course is designed to help young people be aware of their own safety when using apps and digital platforms. It’s important to be aware of the potential dangers of the internet and equip our young people with the tools they need to stay safe online. This training will explore how to achieve online safety for young people. The session is designed to be interactive; we actively encourage the young people to participate and ask questions relating to any particular concerns/issues they have.