Capita Announces Details for it’s e-Safety and Online Child Protection Conference 14th June 2013

SCOTLAND, Scotland - April 12, 2013 - PRLog -- E-Safety and Online Child Protection
Friday 14th June 2013 – Edinburgh

Chair: Martin Dewar, Digital Academy Director, Young Scot

Capita’s e-Safety and Online Child Protection Conference brings together stakeholders from local authorities, education, police, the voluntary and community sector in Scotland to examine how you can ensure children and young people are able to  take advantage of new technologies, whilst raising awareness and responding appropriately to the risks involved.

Internet safety is a key area of practice within child protection policy in Scotland. Coinciding with the current refresh of the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland, attend this timely event to hear expert guidance and best practice on managing and regulating online behaviour in order to create responsible digital citizens.

Our Expert Speakers Include:
•   Martin Crewe, Director, Barnardo’s Scotland
•   Catriona Laird, National Child Protection Committee Coordinator, WithScotland
•   Brian Donnelly, Director, respectme – Scotland’s Anti-Bullying Service
•   Catriona Laing, Development Officer, Perth and Kinross Council and Member, Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Education Advisory Board
•   Patricia Cartes, Safety Lead, Facebook
•   Stacey Collier-West, Acting Headteacher, Drumbowie Primary School
•   PC Stewart Kerr, Community Planning Officer and Online Safety Lead, Forth Valley Division, Police Scotland and Chairman, Central E-Safety Partnership

Benefits of attending:
•   Understand the threats and exploitation possibilities of the digital environment and how this is influencing child protection policy
•   Gain industry insight from Facebook into how online safety issues are being incorporated into the design and delivery of their social media platform
•   Understand how to use the resources of young people to implement a peer mentoring approach in schools
•   Hear guidance on weighing up the risks and opportunities associated with digital media and how to use this to determine the best response to complex protection issues
•   Discover how to embed a successful culture of digital citizenship and
•   responsibility with primary school children
•   Take away models of multi-agency working between police, child protection agencies and community groups that focus on prevention
•   Explore practical strategies for tackling cyberbullying and other online social abuses
                             
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Contact: Fran Langham – fran.langham@capita.co.uk /020 7960 7751