Walk Online Roadshow - Free information Session on Online Safety for Parents and Carers
Walk Online Roadshow
Supporting Children’s Online Safety Together
The digital world offers incredible opportunities for children to learn, connect, and explore. To help them navigate it safely, the Thurrock Local Safeguarding Children Partnership invites Year 5 pupils from across Thurrock to attend the annual Walk Online Roadshow each November.
To reinforce the important messages shared with children, we are pleased to offer a free online evening session for parents, carers, and professionals. Led by the renowned online safety specialists The 2 Johns, this informative session will explore current online risks, emerging trends, and practical strategies for supporting children to thrive safely online.
Together, we can empower children with the knowledge and confidence to make safer choices online.
Please note: this is an adult only event and not suitable for children
Session link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89822319189
Are you aware of the commodities in Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite? Did you know that by restricting the ‘chat’ in games, does not stop your child talking to strangers and can put them at increased risk?
Did you know that having the wrong settings on your social media apps can expose your young person to grooming or put them at risk of Bullying?
Do you know how gang culture and radicalisation online affects your child?
Do you know the power online influence is having on your child?
Do you know that the biggest growth in self-generated images is in the primary school years across the county?
This workshop will look at the online world and how our young people are using it. How they are navigating restrictions and using the internet without the knowledge of parents or carers.
This will include their favourite apps and games. We look at the dangers they face not only from people with bad intensions but also how they are being groomed in games.
This ranges from receiving gifts by the younger player to being groomed on servers for the older ones.
We will explore how all our young people are being influenced online and forming ideologies and views that might be at odds to their parents, which can also give them a different view of the world. We also look at how influencers work, which can lead our children to conduct dangerous dares and challenges.
We look at solutions that parents can adopt to help keep their children safe. This ranges from settings on apps to safe use of games and how parents should approach the online arena. We take a look at the Stranger Danger message that parents are familiar with and make it ready for Today’s World.