Navigating online safety and sexual development: eSafety’s new resource

Children and young people are growing up in a digital world where they use online devices and platforms in many aspects of their lives.

What children and young people see and do online can affect them in both positive and negative ways. For parents and carers, keeping children and young people safe online can feel overwhelming, especially with the availability of violent content and the potential for sexually abusive or exploitative contact. There is also often online misinformation about sex, relationships, sexuality and gender – which can be hard to identify.

It’s important that practitioners and service providers who work with children and families can provide support and guidance regarding online safety. To provide this support, it is critical to understand how the online experiences of children and young people can impact, and be impacted by, their relationships and sexual development.

To assist practitioners and service providers to better support children and families, eSafety has recently released their ‘Online safety and sexual development guidance’.

This webinar, produced in partnership with eSafety, brings together some of the key people involved in developing the resource. This webinar will give you:

insight into how the ‘Online safety and sexual development guidance’ was developed, including the evidence base underpinning the resource
a better understanding of the intersection of online safety and children’s sexual development, including the development of respectful relationships
insight into how to use the resource with the families you work with, including case scenarios to illustrate practical examples.