ESafety Day – our webinar with the ESafety Commissioner & AFLW player Tayla Harris
Today, we joined virtually with the Australian ESafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant for ESafety Day, at the National Safeguarding Unit's webinar featuring AFLW's Tayla Harris, continuing to bring awareness to the importance of safeguarding children and young people on the internet to ensure young people feel safe, and are safe, in our Ys, families and communities.
Offering safe spaces for children and young people to be themselves, to be inspired is what we do at the Y - in both physical and virtual spaces, and we must all be champions of protecting the rights of children and young people to be safe and have a voice that enables them to shape communities they live in.
It is an essential time for children and young people to be safe and feel safe.
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The online world opens up so many positive opportunities for us to connect, find information, explore new things, play and stay in touch, but we need to continually be intentional about ensuring it is an empowering and safe place.
As we evolve our capability to do this, we must all work together as the online world spans so many boundaries and removes limitations that may be more visible in a physical space or meeting people face to face.
We know there are challenges including exposure to inappropriate content or unwanted contact and therefore we need lots of ways to educate ourselves, our children and our young people more….. and we all need to work together to truly understand the risk and the emerging risks.
We are in a constantly changing world and therefore learning new way is something we all need to be comfortable with.
Last year, although many of us have things we would rather forget about, it did see us all migrate to a more digital way of being and it is my hope that we have learnt new and innovative ways to connect, be curious and be kind to each other in the online world.
These are things we need to embrace and move forward with but we also need to ensure safety. It is never, ever okay for a child or young person to experience harm and therefore we need to ensure they don’t in the physical world and the online world.
I am very excited about this initiative and working with the ESafety commission.
Together…. we are always stronger and everyone that attended, I am sure, will now champion safe online spaces for all children and young people, and we encourage all to be champions in this space.
See the video for more information -
Also Founder of Ripple Connect
4 年Thanks for sharing Melinda Crole Can't understate the importance of this topic - we live in an age where for the first time in human history children know more than adults. It was usual for children to come to adults for advice or knowledge. But the digital age has shifted this, in fact reversed it. Adults often go to children to ask how to use a piece of technology or an app etc. In some ways this is what makes it dangerous, where adults struggle to navigate the digital world it leaves children exposed and vulnerable to exploitation, both from those that may wish to harm them but also from those that wish to influence their development and belief systems. Adults must get on board, and become interested and knowledgeable about the digital world, or at the very lest ensure children under their care have safe adults they can turn to fro support.
General Manager Client UX at Auto-UX
4 年It was an incredibly interesting webinar Melinda Crole, with very practical tips and insightful guests. Thank you.
CEO @ Think Influence | Intelligent Leadership
4 年Thank you!