This Friday, an incredibly important event will be taking place in Westminster – the Child Internet Safety Summit (CIS). Now in its third year, the event will bring together the UKs highest decision makers – including senior officials from Government, law enforcement, social services, business and academia – to discuss, understand and demonstrate how we can protect children online in a world of rapid technological advancement.
Lead sponsor of CIS, AVG Technologies, has 5 free tickets to give away to KiddyCharts readers! This is a great opportunity for parents to join the discussion around safeguarding children and engage with a number of high-level industry stakeholders on the topic. Attending on the day is Alan Wardle, Head of Public Policy at NSPCC and Tony Anscombe, Senior Security Evangelist at AVG – amongst others, they’ll be presenting their viewpoint on the current issues around child online safety.
There are only 5 free tickets available – if you’re keen to attend, just register your attendance visit Eventbrite (here) and enter the following promotional code: CISAVG15VI.
As you’re aware – digital technology is creating incredible opportunities for children in schools and in our homes. Children can share their thoughts, chat with friends, submit their homework, connect with their idols and express an opinion on everything that interests them. Viewing and distributing content and images is at their fingertips via the growing amount of connected devices available to them. Browsing the internet, making friends online, gaming, social networking and downloading music, images and films are just a few of the basic things our children do online. All innocent tasks on the face of it, but most can lead children to the dangerous side of the web. Accessing pornographic material, interacting with strangers, posting images of self-harming, grooming, cyberbullying, trolling, extortion and accessing sites that encourage children and teens to self-abuse are just a handful of the many dangers that can have detrimental effects on children and teenagers.
Come along to CIS to hear what the experts have to say on the topic of online safety for kids and join the discussion around we can do as parents to make the world wide web a safer place for our children.
Watch out for the write up of the event on the blog too, we are going to be there so we can keep up to date with all the latest developments in this important area.
For further information on the event, contact Katie Thomas at kthomas@waggeneredstrom.com
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!