Internet Safety Half Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people who are in care or education and promotes awareness and readiness for internet safety conversations. The course covers key topics such as awareness of internet risks, how an individual’s conduct and behaviours online may increase or decrease the risks, discusses online sexual abuse and online grooming (both Child Sexual Exploitation and Criminal Exploitation), provides advice for practitioners to educate young people, identifies strategies to protect children and young people online and provides signposting out to organisations that can assist practitioners and young people to promote digital safety. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Awareness of conduct and risk-taking behaviour
• Highlight and identify different areas that may pose a risk to Children and Young People
• Discuss sexual abuse online and grooming
• Give advice on having discussions with Children and Young People
• Identify how we can help keep them safe online
• Outline the advantages of the internet
• Give advice on how to access support