Online Safety

IMPORTANT INFORMATION -This is a virtual course and once you have booked you will receive a confirmation email which will contain a link that you must use to register for this course and to confirm your place on this event. (The link will say, 'click here to join the meeting' this is the link to register)

Aim

This multi-agency safeguarding training, is for professionals to learns ways of engaging children and parents, to encourage safe online practice at home. The training webinar aims to raise awareness of the unseen dangers and embeds the understanding needed to help young people stay safe when they are using the Internet, social media and playing online games.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the online webinar session, frontline practitioners will have gained an increased awareness to the use of the Internet, how to protect professional reputation, when using digital communication and how to cascade the learning to colleagues and families on:

• An understanding of the hidden danger’s children face when using the Internet, social media and playing online games.
• An understanding of perpetrators and the models used for online grooming.
• Interventions – models used to keep children safe.
• Understand the role parents can play to keep children safe.

For our virtual courses…

• Virtual Courses will take place via Microsoft Teams and - to a lesser extent – Zoom.
• Please read the course information, confirmations and any follow up emails carefully during and after your booking process, and follow the instructions for receiving or locating the link to the course. Virtual courses have been re-designed from their usual face to face format, and so some alterations such as the requirement to complete pre-course work (in some instances) are in place for you.
• If your organisation allows it, Microsoft Teams should be downloaded on your device and you should know how to use it prior to training.
• For staff who cannot download Zoom (eg Birmingham Children’s Trust Staff), it will not be necessary to download the Zoom program in order to attend the virtual session.”

When joining a Zoom call: (for delegates)

• • Join the call using a browser (internet explorer or Edge) – you must not download the Zoom software  
  • You must not transfer information to the group on the call (such as files etc.) via Zoom.
  • If this is a new partner you are working with you may need to consider if attendees are required to complete a confidentiality agreement (this is separate from the use of Zoom etc.)

It is very important that if you book a place but later cannot attend that you cancel your place at least 5 days before the event date.  This will enable the place to be offered to delegates on the waiting list and will avoid any non attendance charges being made to your organisation.  Cancellation requests outside of 5 days should be emailed to bscp.contactus@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk;