#ChildSafeguarding
🎉 Today’s the day!

We’re so excited to welcome everyone to our Digital Guardians: Co-Creation in Action event — part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Sciences 2025!

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #onlinegrooming #parents #caregivers #childsafety #childsafeguarding #childprotection
Team #DRAGON is counting down the days to our Digital Guardians workshop — part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science 2025! 🎉

📅 When: Thursday 30 October | 2–4pm

📍 Where: Volcano Theatre, Swansea

🎟️ Free to attend — registration required!

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October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Joel Scanlan's article for The Conversation on sextortion highlights an important - if often overlooked - point: online abuse is linguistic as much as it is technological.

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#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childsafeguarding #childsafety #safeguarding #childprotection
July 21, 2026 at 9:50 AM
We're still looking for UK-based #parents & #caregivers to help develop our #onlinegroomingprevention #training for a parent/caregiver audience alongside the @breckfoundation.bsky.social.

Read more 👇 Feel free to share with your networks!

#participatoryresearch #childsafeguarding #onlinesafety
June 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Child Safeguarding Update- 𝑳𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔
📝 This article sets out the recent Irish Court of Appeal decision 𝘔𝘤𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘷 𝘏𝘚𝘌, which provides much needed clarification for clinicians working in historic disclosures -
#IrishResearch #IrishLaw #ChildSafeguarding

www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/in-d...
Law Society of Ireland Gazette
www.lawsociety.ie
November 16, 2024 at 7:09 PM
🧵 7/8

What teens want is partnership. They want reassurance, empathy, open conversations, and guidance—not punishment or confiscation.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childsafety #childsafeguarding #onlinesafeguarding #Roblox #Minecraft #Fortnite #onlinegaming
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
As the UK Government consultation on a potential minimum age for social media comes to a close, young people in Wales are making one thing clear: their views are not simple & they deserve to be heard.

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#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharm #childsafeguarding #safeguarding
Social media 'is vital', say Welsh teens arguing against a ban
A group of teenagers claim they need social media "to survive", but one head calls it "a disaster".
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May 26, 2026 at 9:22 AM
🧵 4/5

Several also pointed to the responsibility of technology companies, arguing that children should not lose access because platforms have failed to make their spaces safer.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharm #childsafeguarding #safeguarding #digitalsafeguarding
May 26, 2026 at 9:22 AM
🧵 8/8

These figures underline the need for better joined-up data, earlier intervention & clearer understanding of how sexual harm manifests across systems, particularly as abuse increasingly occurs in digital spaces.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #childsafeguarding
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🧵 4/5

Research cited in the piece found that perpetrators frequently move conversations across multiple services, making child safety a wider ecosystem issue rather than one tied to one app alone.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #socialmedia #childsafeguarding #safeguarding
May 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
TLDR (1/2):

The research analysed data from over 1,400 cases and found that:

📉 Sexual reoffending dropped by 78–90%.
📉Overall offending reduced by 34–44%.
⏱️ Young people showed longer sustained periods without reoffending.

#childsexualabuse #childsexualexploitation #childsafeguarding
July 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In a new paper, Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus & Dr Craig Evans presents the first comprehensive account of online grooming discourse.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TLDR 👇

#DRAGON #onlinegrooming #onlineharms #onlinesafety #childprotection #childsafeguarding
A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of children’s and groomers’ talk in online grooming interactions
Harmful communication may not always be recognisable as such, especially when it is manipulative and deceptive and appears to be indistinguishable fro…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
January 23, 2026 at 12:38 AM
🧵 5/6

Despite these risks, digital life remains central — even positive — for teenagers.

Nearly half say being online makes them feel mostly good, valuing creativity & community (with LGBTQ+ young people noting particular benefits).

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childsafeguarding
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🧵 6/8

Researchers caution that the evidence for outright bans remains limited. Experts from Cambridge & Oxford point out that we still don’t know whether age restrictions actually improve mental health or online safety.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #childprotection #childsafeguarding #socialmediaban
January 20, 2026 at 9:41 AM
New review published today from the the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel:

"National review into child sexual abuse within the family environment"

#CSA #Safeguarding #ChildSafeguarding

www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 26, 2024 at 6:51 AM
🧵 4/5

The report also points to a widening gap between the estimated number of children experiencing sexual abuse & the much smaller number coming to the attention of statutory agencies.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #childsafeguarding #safeguarding
July 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM
🧵 1/5

Researchers interviewed over 490 young people aged 10–19 across 11 countries. What emerged was a nuanced, clear, & consistent message: Young people want adults to be involved in their online lives.

#DRAGON #C2CHAT #digitallives #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #childsafeguarding
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A disturbing new report from the @iwf.org.uk has uncovered chatbots offering explicit scenarios with preteen characters – some illustrated by AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

🔗 tinyurl.com/z8mypnyj

TLDR 👇

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #onlineharms #childsafeguarding
Chatbot site depicting child sexual abuse images raises fears over misuse of AI
Child safety watchdog calls for child protection guidelines to be built into AI models from the outset
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September 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
In this important article, Dorothy Finan and Kaori Suetomi examine efforts to introduce child safeguarding frameworks in Japan’s entertainment industries in the wake of the Johnny Kitagawa abuse scandal.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Japan #ChildSafeguarding #EntertainmentIndustry #APJJF
What Are the Barriers to Improving the Safeguarding of Children and Young People in Japan’s Entertainment Industries? | Asia-Pacific Journal | Cambridge Core
What Are the Barriers to Improving the Safeguarding of Children and Young People in Japan’s Entertainment Industries? - Volume 23
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November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) has published their new report: "Scale and nature of child sexual abuse: Review of evidence".

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#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #childsafeguarding #safeguarding #CSACentre
Scale and nature of child sexual abuse report | CSA Centre
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July 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
A new study has investigated what teenagers really want adults to know about their digital lives.

It offers some striking answers & challenges a lot of assumptions.

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#DRAGON #C2CHAT #digitallives #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #childsafeguarding #cocreation
What teenagers want adults to know about their digital lives
Young people repeatedly mentioned that adults are not sufficiently involved or do not understand what children and teenagers do online.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
TLDR (3/3):

📞 Trusted adults—parents, teachers, mentors—are essential: open conversations can empower children to use reporting tools safely.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #digitalsafety #childsafeguarding #childsafety
July 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🧵 3/5

Importantly, the article notes that many online harms affecting children do not stay confined to a single platform.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #socialmedia #childsafeguarding #safeguarding
May 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
New figures from the Report Remove service highlight a deeply concerning trend: online sextortion attempts against children are rising in the UK.

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#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #sextortion #sexploitation #childsafety #childsafeguarding
Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers
Exclusive: Call for nudity-detection tech on phones as number of under-18s reporting blackmail attempts rises by 34%
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April 8, 2026 at 9:17 AM
🧵 3/8

Two-thirds of children affected by CSE were persistently absent from school, highlighting the strong link between exploitation, disengagement, & vulnerability.

#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #childprotection #childsafeguarding
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM