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Latest report from The Cybersurvey
Refuge and Risk: Life Online for Vulnerable Young People. December 2020
This groundbreaking report explores how young people who are already vulnerable offline, are also at greater risk online in specific ways. Almost 15,000 young people’s online lives were analysed. Each group is studied in relation to six categories of risk.
Essential for frontline services working with children and young people.
With our partners, Internet Matters and the Department of Psychology at the University of Kingston, we were able to hear from young people across the country in our largest dataset yet. Thanks to all the schools who took part.
PUBLISHED:
Research paper: Children’s Services for a Digital Age. Children & Youth Services Review
Launched! The Digital Passport for young people in care and foster carers
The Digital Passport consists of three parts
1. Is a guide on how to use it, setting out the approach and principles, explaining the thinking behind it.
2. Is the passport for the adult carer and other professionals around the child.
3. Is the section for the child or young person.
It offers continuity, consistency, child and youth participation and a springboard to a natural dialogue about digital life.
Created and written by Adrienne Katz with focus groups, consultations and advice from experts within the UK Centre for Internet Safety Working Group on Vulnerable Children.
Resources for young people with special needs and their families.
A new HUB for teens with SEND stops them getting ‘lost in space’ and enables them to get the most from social media. July 2020
Developed by Youthworks in partnership with Internet Matters and supported by facebook.
Workshops, interviews and consultations gave us insights into what was needed by teens, their parents, carers and teachers.
Young people were at the centre of this work from start to launch. It offers advice, animations, activities to do together, downloadables, a digital passport and more. Connecting Safely Online.
Life Online for young people with SEND
Report of the workshop and consultations for this exciting hub.
New report Look At Me: Teens, Sexting and Risks June 2020
We are delighted to offer this report Look At Me: Teens, Sexting and Risks – the next in the Cybersurvey series. Exploring not only experiences of sexting, the reasons why the young people did it, and what happened as a result – this report finds other ripples of risk and consequence clusters that all in safeguarding roles should watch for.
Vulnerable Children in a Digital World
- Award!
Adrienne Katz is honoured to have been awarded ‘Inspirational Individual of the Year’ by the Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation in the StandUp Champion awards.
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National Cybersurvey
The CYBERSURVEY is an annual online survey exploring young people’s digital experiences. Now 12 years old. Schools take part free. Next survey will be autumn term 2021.
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Latest reports www.thecybersurvey.co.uk
The quesions cover all aspects of online life for 11-16 year olds. There are vital messages for educators and other professionals on young people’s digital lives. Use what is learned for staff training, equality monitoring and safeguarding. Your action plans will be informed by this annual survey. Stay up to date and adjust your online safety practice.
Cybersurvey reports and briefing papers from our academic research partnership.
The 2020 survey is now closed to new entries. Reports will be published in 2021. Thank you to all who took part.
To mark 10 years of the Cybersurvey we issued Vulnerable Children in a Digital World
In the 11th year of the Cybersurvey we have issued Look At Me, Teens, Sexting and Risks the first in a series of briefings and reports.
- Young people’s digital lives
Our research partnership with Dr Aiman El Asam published Vulnerable Young People and Their Experiences of Online Risk in the journal, Human-Computer Interaction.
Consulting
Do you need expert advice and support without committing to an employee post? We undertake contracts and projects for a range of services, charities and local authorities.
- Reports
- Research
- Training
- Webinars
- Conferences
- Evaluations
- Consultations with service users
Guidance Development
Youthworks is led a tream developing new Anti-Bullying Guidance for Wales. With Jonathan Charlesworth of EACH, Robin Richardson of Insted and Carole Phillips formerly of Crickhowell High School in Powys.
Training
Cyberbullying and e-safety: new approaches
New CPD accredited course offered.
In your school for staff or join a training day with other schools.
Watch this s pace! A bespoke version of this course is being developed for the care sector.
INSETS can be booked via Osiris Educational.
- A Whole School Approach to bullying
This popular course is available as a one day course. (Not available due to COVID-19) - Cyberbullying: new undertstanding of the ecology of risk
- Sexting: why and what happened – making interventions work.
(Will be available online autumn 2021).
Delegates are given access to regular updates, new resources and trend alerts.
Evaluation
Do you want to evaluate your service?
Due to our current workload we cannot take on evaluations for the next 18 months.
Children’s services expertly evaluated.
Children, parents and staff consulted.
Qualitative and qualitative methods
Interviews, focus groups, workshops and surveys
Enjoyable and innovative techniques
Young people respected and engaged.
Example:
Evaluation of services’ responses to young people’s online lives for Dudley MBC. 2017
- Professional association. Adrienne Katz, Director of Youthworks has joined the Association of Adult and Child Online Safety Specialists.
