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Empowering Young People Online

Online Conference 8 February 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm

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9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
9:40am
Keynote Address: Promoting Positive And Responsible Internet Use Through Safer Internet Day 2023
  • Discovering resources, activities, and actions to campaign for online safety globally
  • Celebrating the diverse ways that young people can use the internet for education, personal growth, community building, communication, and sharing knowledge
  • Reflecting on the growth of Safer Internet Day since 2004 and the emerging priorities for children’s online safety
  • Looking ahead at the emerging challenges and how parents, caregivers, and teachers can foster and model good use of technology
Will Gardner OBE, CEO, Childnet International and David Wright, Director, UK Safer Internet Centre
10:20am
Keynote Address from The National Grid for Learning
Mark Bentley, Safeguarding & Cybersecurity Manager, The National Grid for Learning
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:30am
Strengthening Internet Protection For Young People Through Implementing The Online Safety Bill
  • Setting high standards for online regulation to monitor platforms, applying appropriate tools and enforcement measures for organisations to meet their protection responsibilities
  • Introducing a new duty of care for online providers and designers to tackle illegal activity and prevent children from accessing harmful content
  • Recognising the evolving needs for maintaining young people’s internet protection, monitoring outcomes, progress, and good practice
  • Clarifying the obligations for platforms providers, users, government, and other groups involved with child safeguarding
Maeve Walsh, Associate, Carnegie UK, and Tony Stower, Principal: Online Safety Policy, Ofcom
11:50am
Case Study: A Dedicated Response to Support Survivors of Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse Through Recovery
  • What happens when safeguarding fails? Supporting survivors of Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse (TACSA) through their recovery journey
  • Appropriate responses to new technology abuse
  • Resources for those working with victims and survivors
Lawrence Jordan, Director of Services, Marie Collins Foundation
12:10pm
Case Study: Enhancing Support For Young People’s Mental Health Online
  • Engaging with young people to understand the key challenges and priorities for strengthen their mental health in relation to internet access
  • Identifying the impacts of online connectivity and learning on mental health, wellbeing, cyberbullying, and access to support
  • Recognising the challenges of social media and digital technology reliance on poor mental health, anxiety, and depression
  • Considering how young people can flourish in a digital age, develop greater online resilience, and build positive self-expression
12:30pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:50pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Case Study: Challenges Posed By The Metaverse And Next Steps
  • Technological components of the Metaverse
  • The significance of immersive technology; immersion, presence and embodiment
  • In which ways can the Metaverse support society?
  • Navigating towards a better Metaverse
Nina Jane Patel, VP of Metaverse Research
2:00pm
Case Study: Restricting Children’s Access To Dangerous Online Content
  • Challenging the exploitation of young people online through strong online monitoring systems, holding online platforms and sites accountable
  • Limiting exposure to misinformation, radicalisation, and commercial activity, and supporting children if they encounter harmful content
  • Innovating privacy measures and effective encryption solutions, going beyond excluding younger users and meeting the modern needs for children’s internet access 
  • Embracing child-centred support opportunities, optimising the content available, viewed, and shared
2:20pm
Case Study: Committing To Tackle Online Child Grooming Through Zero Tolerance To Exploitation
  • Collaborating to identify, detect, and combat crime, and improve overall child safety on online spaces
  • Sharing research and learning around the signs of grooming in children through technology, and how to act when children disclose potential dangers
  • Understanding the connection between technology and every aspect of a child’s life, given the rising amount of time spent online at school and home
  • Renewing commitments to protect children online through sufficient funding, resources and online safety advice
Dr Elena Martellozzo, Associate Professor in Criminology, Middlesex University, and Paula Bradbury, Criminology Professor, Middlesex University
2:40pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:20pm
Chair’s Summary And Close

*programme subject to change without notice

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