Online Safety and Hybrid Contexts
This full day session explores the evolving nature of harm in young people’s lives, where digital and physical worlds are interconnected.
This training examines contemporary online spaces and how online interactions can escalate into physical safeguarding concerns - including exploitation, serious violence and group-based harm. Grounded in contextual safeguarding, it equips practitioners to recognise and respond effectively to hybrid harms.
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Develop a working understanding of contemporary online spaces and recognise how different platforms, apps and digital environments function in young people’s social, relational and risk landscapes.
Understand the concept of hybrid contexts, recognise that young people do not experience online and offline worlds as separate, and identify how digital interactions influence real-world safety and harm.
Identify and respond to online-to-offline harm pathways, strengthening assessment, safety planning and multi-agency responses to risks such as grooming, exploitation, serious violence and coordinated peer harm.
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This training is suitable for any teams working with children, such as Children's Services, Alternate Provision Staff, Youth Service, and third sector support services.
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This training can be delivered either face to face or online.
We can also offer a half day version.