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The UK Safer Internet Centre (made up of Childnet International, SWGfL and the Internet Watch Foundation) is working on a new project. This project will think about new ways we might help children and young people to recognise harmful sexual behaviour they experience online, and empower them to seek help.
We want to explain how your child will be involved in our programme, and to give you some insight into who we are, as well as to ask that you kindly fill in the following form to give Childnet consent for your child’s participation in the programme.
The online landscape and young people’s experiences of online harms is changing all the time, especially as new technologies emerge. We would now like to reassess the current experiences and perspectives of children, young people and their educators regarding harmful sexual behaviour online, so that we can ensure the support we provide in the future is practical, helpful and relevant.
We have already consulted our two youth participation groups (Childnet’s Digital Champions and Youth Advisory Board) to begin those conversations around their understanding of harmful sexual behaviours online and the actual experiences of these behaviours.
We now want to work with your child in a design-led way. This means exploring a question in an open way with the people it affects, then coming up with solutions together. For example, we will think about what resources, products and services we could offer as the UK Safer Internet Centre to better support children and young people with the issue of harmful online sexual behaviour. We want children and young people, and their educators, to directly contribute towards our work in this area.
We hope to work with your child for 90 minutes. We will begin by discussing the thoughts and perspectives of the youth groups that we have already spoken to. Following this conversation, your child will then take part in a workshop where they will think about what resources and services the UK Safer Internet Centre could design to help support children and young people with this issue. They will mind map a variety of ideas before prioritising some and thinking about the potential design of these.
Some of the subject matter in this workshop may be sensitive. As such, we will follow the following safeguarding procedures during the workshop: