Safeguarding Children in the Digital Age
Online conference: 2.00pm-5.30pm
The digital world continues to produce new risks to young people’s safety and wellbeing as well as increased opportunities for learning and discovery. Safeguarding today requires practitioners in all fields to be up to speed with emerging digital trends and threats.
The Safeguarding Children in the Digital Age conference organised by Children & Young People Now - and now in its eight year – will take place online on the afternoons of Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd January 2025.
We have secured some of the country’s leading experts and practitioners to equip you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to enable children and young people to stay safe in 2025 and beyond.
Through a number of CPD-accredited sessions, our speakers will provide you with actionable insights and top tips to implement in your work.
The online conference will cover:
• An update on the Online Safety Act and using it in practice
• Staying ahead of the threats to child safeguarding posed by Generative AI
• Understanding online grooming and how to prevent it
• Giving young people confidence and critical literacy skills, including how to identify misinformation and disinformation
• Placing limitations on young people’s smartphone and social media use: the pros and cons
• Supporting young people with SEND to engage with the online world
• What youth work looks like digitally, and the role of technology in young people’s lives
• Using digital care to support the mental health needs of children and young people
• Using AI responsibly in social work with children and families
• Supporting child development in the early years safely through digital technology
Who should attend:
• Designated Safeguarding Leads and deputies
• Heads of safeguarding and safeguarding managers
• LCSB chairs and members
• Primary and secondary school headteachers and deputies
• Heads of year
• Local authority children's and families' services
• Heads of youth services and youth service managers
• Early help teams
• Child protection teams
• Children's social workers
• Foster care and residential care managers
• Pastoral leads and subject heads
• Education welfare officers
• School governors
• Nursery owners and proprietors
• Nursery and children's centre managers
• Local authority early years heads
• Early years advisers
• CAMHS professionals
• Children's and young people's charities
• The academic community
• SEND professionals
• Educational psychologists
• School nurses