Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here Vaping seems to be everywhere nowadays. It seems you can’t go to a petrol station or walk through a shopping centre without seeing colourful advertising or catching a sickly-sweet scent lingering in the air. While vapes (also known as electronic cigarettes
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here On Sunday 23rd April, the UK government will be testing the Emergency Alert system. At 3pm, mobile phone and/or tablet users across the UK will receive a message on the home screen of their device. Phones will also play loud siren-like
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here Communications regulator Ofcom has released their annual Media Use and Attitudes Report that looks at recent online trends and the attitudes of children and parents across the UK. The report provides an insight into the media use, attitudes and understanding of
Read the script below Hello and welcome to Safeguarding Soundbites – I’m Tyla, and I’m Colin, and this is the podcast that keeps you up to date with the latest in safeguarding news. This week, we’ll be telling you about our latest article that will help get
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here What is an AI chatbot? Chatbots are a type of artificial intelligence designed to interact with users in a conversational manner. Unlike Googling a question, an AI Chatbot gives more context to the answer. So, instead of providing a list of links
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here We know it can be a challenge getting children and young people to switch off from screens during the Easter break, so we’ve found five outdoor apps to help get the children and young people in your care out exploring nature
Read the script below Hello and a warm welcome to Safeguarding Soundbites. This is your podcast for finding out all the weekly safeguarding news plus your place for finding out what the INEQE geeks have been up to. Over 120,000 people have signed a petition calling for
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here Download resource It is not difficult to imagine harmful or abusive behaviours being present on social media. What can be challenging to deal with is the presence of popular online personalities or influencers who
After being alerted to the term ‘hentai machine’ being discussed amongst young children, our Online Safety Experts have researched and produced a digital threat assessment to help school staff and safeguarding professionals understand this complex topic. It outlines the areas of concern, covers associated safeguarding risks, and provides practical tips on how to respond
Read the script below Hello and welcome to Safeguarding Soundbites, the podcast that brings you all the latest safeguarding news and advice. This week, we’re talking about National Child Exploitation Awareness Day, ChatGPT and the Online Safety Bill.Saturday the 18th of March sees National Child Exploitation Day,
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here The focus of this year’s National Child Exploitation Awareness Day is on child sexual exploitation. The day aims to highlight issues on the topic and encourage people to think, spot and speak out against abuse. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We all have a role to play
Read the script below Hello and welcome to Safeguarding Soundbites. If you’re looking for a roundup of this week’s safeguarding news and advice from online safety experts, you’re in the right place! This week, we’ll be catching up with YouTube livestreaming and the latest safeguarding news in
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here YouTube have begun rolling out a new livestreaming feature called ‘Go Live Together’. This guide to YouTube Go Live Together outlines what the feature is, what the risks are, and some top tips to help the children and young people in your
Read the script below Hello and welcome to Safeguarding Soundbites. As always, we’ll be checking out the week’s digital and safeguarding news, plus giving you the latest updates and advice from our Online Safety Experts. Have you heard of or ever used Twitch, the online livestreaming platform,
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here If you have a gamer in your household, chances are you’ve heard the word ‘Twitch’ being used. The name sounds fun, age-appropriate, and harmless. It would be easy to assume it is a type of game or a new slang word. In
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here What is the issue? Our safeguarding experts have been made aware of a viral challenge circulating on TikTok using variations of the hashtag ‘foopah’. A play on the phrase ‘faux pas’ (an embarrassing public act), the trend encourages
Read the script below Hello, and welcome back to Safeguarding Soundbites, the podcast that brings you all the latest in safeguarding news and updates. This week, we’re talking about the latest Safeguarding Update from our online safety experts dealing with a new type of game on Roblox
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here Warning The following update includes distressing themes, such as suicide and self-harm acts, that may be triggering for some readers. Due to the popularity of online gaming platform Roblox with children and young people under the age of
Read the script below Hello and welcome back to another Safeguarding Soundbites, the podcast that brings you the latest in safeguarding news and updates. This week, we’re talking about Twitter ads on toxic accounts, Omegle being taken to court, and how Google plans to tackle misinformation, plus
Read the script below Hello and welcome to Safeguarding Soundbites, the podcast that brings you all the latest safeguarding news and updates. This week, we’re catching up on Meta’s virtual world, talking about AI generated sexual abuse images and finding out how one gaming company is taking
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here What is the JusTalk app and is it safe for young people? Schools and safeguarding professionals are reporting that children and young people are receiving harmful and inappropriate messages on the JusTalk app. After an investigation by our Online Safety Experts,
You are PUNbelievable! Valentine's Day is a celebration of love and the perfect day to remind your loved ones how much you care. Why not surprise someone you love with one of these puns? It could be your mum, dad, carer, brother, sister, best friend, boyfriend, girlfriend or simply
Read the script below Hello and welcome to this week’s Safeguarding Soundbites, the podcast that gives you all the latest safeguarding updates and news that you can use to keep the children and young people in your life safer online. February is here and that means one
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here New research has uncovered the top five platforms young people feel the most unsafe whilst using. The Pupil Safeguarding Review investigated the effectiveness of school safeguarding policy, with an aim of understanding whether pupils feel safe in a variety of settings.
Read the script below Hello and welcome to Safeguarding Soundbites, the weekly podcast that gives you a whistle-stop tour of all the latest news and updates from the online safeguarding world. Today, we’ll be looking at Meta and TikTok news, the latest Fortnite update, new research stats,