From policy to practice: Working through children’s digital safety in ECEC

Wanting to provide practical resources for anyone on a children’s digital safety journey, Storypark’s pedagogical team has developed a free workbook to help ECEC providers put children’s digital safety policies into practice:

• The expertise and experiences of each group is respected
• Everyone gets onboard with the ‘why’ behind safety measures
• Knowledge and experience gaps can be identified and bridged

• • Awareness and renewed respect for safety: Greater awareness of standards and policy, including establishing who is responsible for particular aspects or actions.
  • Retention: Memory retention is boosted where learning is connected to specific, real life situations and cues.
  • Confidence and motivation: Policy alone is often not inspiring, practice can get people onboard with the ‘why’ behind safety measures, in a safe space free from real world consequences, they get to see that their actions and responses matter.
  • Connection, collaboration and shared responsibility: Taking shared ownership is powerful and can be easier when learning is tangible. Through role-play, teams can better visualise everyone’s part to play and build further trust in each other.  
  • Enriched by multiple perspectives: The NQF Child Safe Culture - Self-assessment and risk assessment tool notes,  “a diverse range of perspectives and experiences can strengthen your reflective conversations.”