"SQA have been working with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre to develop a new Professional Development Award for child protection and safeguarding online. This qualification will be launched imminently.

Prior to the launch, CEOP will be running two courses in Glasgow on 2 and 3 December.

2 December - Half day Thinkuknow training

On 2 December the half day CEOP Thinkuknow Training Course is a free course aimed at professionals who work with young people. This course e… Continue

I've added a short video talking about (and showing) work we're doing with Stockport Adult Social Care in developing a communication and engagement portal which enables their staff to use videos and blogs to communicate about the transformation programme in the directorate. We've got staff at all levels of the organisation, stakeholder staff, and service users all taking to the use of the Flip handheld video cameras. In addition to the video on the site here (find it through the video menu optio… Continue

1. "EU Kids Online is delighted to announce the publication of its new book, "Kids Online: Opportunities and Risks for Children", edited by Sonia Livingstone and Leslie Haddon (Bristol: Policy Press). This provides an up to date account of how children use the internet in Europe, including such topical issues as social networking, risky contacts, parental mediation, media literacy and many more.

As Professor Tanya Byron, author of the influential Byron Review into Safer Children in a Digital Wo… Continue

We've just added a video clip of delegates' reactions to the research symposium and some short interviews with four of the presenters. The videos are HD format so the quality is high but might take a while to download! The delegates' reactions convey well just how stimulating the symposium proved to be, and just how complex the issues are for human service managers and practitioners.

We also added a discussion topic in the forum above prompted by a face to face discussion with one of the sympos… Continue

Reposted from Tim's Blog.

If you write a title of the form ‘Five interesting things about X’ at the top of a page or blog post, where X is an event, a workshop you’ve run, or a paper you’ve just read, chances are you can fairly quickly distil a page or post full of, well, five interesting things.

And chances are that other people will find it useful.

If you ask me, that’s fa… Continue