Young people nowadays are telling their 'story' through social media. From a young age children become immersed in a world of stories. These stories aid children’s development as it heightening their imagination and exposing them to new language and emotions.
Batten down the hatches for the white noise that is Safer Internet Day 2018, and the smokescreen of a challenge to industry that hides this government’s failure to invest in our collective online safety.
When it comes to paedophile activity in online spaces, the only thing that tends to change is that their numbers continue to increase. I believe that one of the contributing factors to this is the lack of real deterrence; too few police officers to deal with the tidal wave of online offending.
Young people are proving vulnerable to online radicalisation. Hundreds of Britons have gone to Syria to fight for ISIL (sometimes referred to as ISIS) since the civil war began. How has this happened and how can we educate, protect and prevent this from happening again and again?
