Technology moves at such a fast pace. It offers endless amazing possibilities, but we know there are risks too. This half day course will support professionals to understand how children are using technology and how we can protect them in an online space.

Target Group

Headteachers, deputy headteachers, governors, designated safeguarding leads and deputies, IT leads, pastoral staff and frontline practitioners.  

Course Content

Course content will include:

• Understand the different websites, games and apps that children use, their features and the possible associated risks
• Consider the types of harm and abuse that can occur online, including how technology is used by perpetrators to facilitate grooming and exploitation
• Hear about the latest online safety guidance to schools, including how to respond to incidents of ‘youth produced sexual imagery’
• Explore the ways in which schools can promote and teach about online safety through the curriculum, peer led approaches, sharing key messages and working with parents and carers
• Know how to access and signpost to advice and support to help keep children safe online

Trainer Information

Kerry's passion for making a difference has been at the heart of her career. Working with some of the most vulnerable children, Kerry formed part of a multi-agency team for looked after children and teenage parents before becoming a service manager within an inner-city local authority. Kerry was the Education representative at the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) for the quality assurance of recommendations of serious case reviews and at the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) for high levels of domestic abuse.

A trained trainer with the NSPCC, Safer Recruitment Consortium and CEOP. Kerry is an experienced safeguarding trainer and continues to provide training, safeguarding supervision and consultancy services to schools and organisations across the North West.  

Kerry is also a school governor, safeguarding lead for a local sports organisation and a volunteer counsellor with Childline.

Additional Information

The virtual live training will be hosted by Kerry Dawson, Specialist Safeguarding Trainer and Consultant. Whilst it's not quite the same as face to face training, the courses are just as interactive, with plenty of opportunities for delegates to share good practice and ask any questions.