Dee Cooley: City of York Safeguarding Children Board, dee.cooley@york.gov.uk Amanda Gaines: YOR-OK Childrens Trust Unit, amanda.gaines@york.gov.uk
Learning Agreement
Confidentiality Active listening without interruption Challenge the view NOT the person Take responsibility for own learning Support others without judging Keep to time Health warning If you are affected by the workshop content, please feel able to take time out, and make sure you get support from workplace or community based services.
There is always a certain risk to being alive and if you are more alive there is more risk (Ibsen)
Social Networks - young teens are posting
sexually explicit images of themselves on SNSs, and self-regulating each other with sexist, derogatory and demeaning language Ringrose
(2008)
texts/photos (creation & distribution of indecent images of children, SOA 2003) Sexual Exploitation - YP as victims and perpetrators
Sexualisation Online
SNSs allow users to create their own online
identity, including posting photos Girlsreport being under increasing pressure to display themselves in their bra and knickerswhereas boys display their bodies in a hyper-masculine way and there is a popular perception that young people (particularly girls) are increasingly being pressured into appearing sexually available Papadopolous (2010)
Online Grooming
The emergence of social sites is having an effect on online offending patterns... Websites which incorporate personal profiles, social networking, instant messaging, games and photo sharing into the same online space mean that information gathering on a child and grooming can take place in one online environment. CEOP 2009
Sexting
One in four 11 to 18-year-olds have received a
"sext" by phone or email (Beatbullying) Liz Merton, head of Spanish at Radley College in Oxfordshire, told MPs and school leaders at a Westminster Education Forum meeting that sexting is one of the biggest concerns among teachers Teenagers taking/sending explicit photos of themselves or others may be committing an offence - although it is legal to have sex at 16 under British law, it is illegal to take, hold or share "indecent" photos of anyone under 18
Definition Contd
.Child sexual exploitation can occur through use of technology without the child's immediate recognition, for example the persuasion to post sexual images on the internet/mobile phones with no immediate payment or gain. In all cases those exploiting the child/young person have power over them by virtue of their age, gender, intellect, physical strength and/or economic or other resources.
National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People, 2008 (definition developed by young women)
reducing their vulnerability improving their resilience disrupting and preventing the activities
of perpetrators reducing tolerance of exploitative behaviour prosecuting abusers
(2006)
My Dangerous Loverboy
Campaign to raise awareness of internal
(within the UK) trafficking of young people for sexual exploitation. Education resources available, incl. 20 minute film Campaign music video: http://www.mydangerousloverboy.com/