Mindful Clicks – Navigating Mental Health and Online Safety
Venue: Zoom (online) – seminar
Audience: Practitioners working in Pastoral Care
Course outline
Guest Speaker Leanne Rowlands, Assistant Head Pastoral with over 20 years experience in independent schools, will deliver this seminar along with her colleague M Jolly, a qualified therapist and clinical supervisor, Director of Wellbeing and Inclusion. This course will look at the current landscape of the digital world, its harms and impact on mental health of adolescents.
Training topics will include:
- Online Platforms
- Online Hazards, Risks and Harms
- Impact on Mental Health and Behaviour
- Responses to Harm, Protection and Safety Online (filtering and monitoring)
- Working in partnership and information sharing
- Pupil Voice
Learning outcomes:
- Consider definitions of online harms in a real world context
- Assess impacts of harms on behaviour and mental health of children and young people
- Develop responses to needs within a school context
- Working in partnership to manage harms.
Cost
- HIEDA Member Rate: £135
- BSA Member Rate: £135
- Non-member Rate: £270*
*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Hieda CPD and events, please click here.
Speaker:
Karl Hopwood is an independent online safety expert.
Karl is a member of UKCIS (UK Council for Internet Safety) and sits on the UKCIS evidence group, education working group and the early warning group as well as on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre. He also sits on the Roblox trust and safety board where he represents the Insafe network. He was part of an expert steering group with TikTok looking at harmful and dangerous online challenges and regularly contributes to content for Internet Matters, recently delivering their online safety training for those working with children in care commissioned by Ofcom.
Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency), the European Commission, the UN and several Local Authorities within the UK and in Europe.
As an ex primary headteacher, he continues to work closely in schools across Europe with children, young people, parents, teachers and governors to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl has been employed for the last 19 years as an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU Better Internet for Kids programme where he is responsible for the coordination of safer internet helplines and awareness centres across Europe. Karl was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Marie Collins Foundation for 7 years, a charity which supports young people who have been sexually abused and exploited online and is now Chair of the board of trustees of Childnet international and Chair of the executive committee of SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Karl has also worked with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and chaired the working group to re-write their Child Online Protection Guidance.
