Next Friday our CEOP Ambassadors will cascade the ThinkUKnow training to our Youth Engagement staff enabling them to deliver the ThinkUKnow presentation to their students themselves. This is the big step forward in ensuring that children and young people stay safe online. It will not only give the staff a better understanding of online threats and knowledge of social networking, but will also allow them to inform, advise and help young people and their parents or guardians.
By integrating the ThinkUKnow training session into our Youth Engagement Programmes, a large amount of young people will receive the training that before would not. They will then be able to pass on this knowledge and support to their peers, family and friends.
By educating adults about social networking we hope to break the barriers between older and younger people that the use of sites such as Facebook and MySpace have created. For this reason we are not only delivering training to staff that work with young people but also to other staff, service wide, who may have or know children.
