PAST RECORDED WEBINARS
 

Supporting Adolescent Girls with Smart Phone Usage

Alicia Drummond (The Wellbeing Hub), Kate Rendle (ID YOU), Madeleine Handaji (Port Regis School) and Karen Emmett (The Chiswick School) discuss some of the digital wellness strategies, warning signs and ways for parents and teachers to start conversations with adolescent girls in their care.

Digital Media Literacy: Developing policies and talks

Laura Ryan (Portsmouth Grammar School) and Lynne Horner (ASCL) share some of their experiences, what they have learnt and how they have begun to develop new policies to meet government guidance and address these issues directly.

Demystifying the online world ‘What is really going on?’

Karl Hopwood (Childnet) and Neil Buirski (Seqrd Technology) talk about some of the key online dangers and the varying impacts on well-being, along with solutions and help for schools and parents.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

13th March 2025 - 4.30pm

The impact of smartphone usage on well-being in adolescent girls

Our webinar will cover the current landscape, including statistics about usage among adolescent girls and why the general picture is very different to boys. Our panel will look at some of the key societal pressures and ways to support girls with digital wellness strategies and tools to help build offline skills.

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20th March 2025 - 4.30pm

Game Over? Understanding Digital Wellbeing for Adolescent Boys

Our webinar will look at some of the current research on male adolescent gaming and mobile usage patterns and some of the issues that arise around digital isolation and social interaction. Our panel will talk about the positive and negative potential of gaming and ways to develop healthy technology boundaries and strategies for parents.

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27th March 2025 - 4.30pm

Digital Guardians: Empowering Parents to Navigate Online Safety

Our webinar will discuss the real-time risks and emerging online threats, age-appropriate digital guidelines, along with latest research on parental awareness and digital literacy. Our panel will discuss ways to have constructive conversations about digital boundaries and technical solutions for monitoring and other practical intervention tools.

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24^th April 2024 – 4.30pm

Moving to Secondary School: Balancing Technology Needs

Our webinar will talk about one of the big questions as children move to their new senior school. With the joys of greater independence come the challenges of technology and all that it involves. Our panel will discuss some of the big issues facing parents as they make decisions about their child's 'smartphone readiness' and look at some of the alternatives or ways to frame the conversation.

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8th May 2024 – 4.30pm

Special Schools: Supporting the most vulnerable online

Our webinar will discuss the benefits and negatives of the online world for children with additional learning needs and the subsequent problems that might arise. Our panel will share insights and their practical approaches to protecting the most vulnerable and strategies to support parents.

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PODCASTS & RESOURCES

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1. Podcast - The SchoolsMobile Story (published January 2025)

In this episode, we will meet Neil Buirski and Hoong Kwan, two of the founders and directors of SchoolsMobile. Find out more about what lead them to get involved in Digital Safeguarding, what they have learnt since its inception and why this matters.
 

2. Podcast - Tech, Trust & Teens: avoiding the smartphone screen-time battles (published 4th March 2025)

Is installing protection software on a child's phone always going to result in conflict? In this episode, we explore the complex dynamics of parent-child conversations about smartphone use, offering practical strategies to navigate digital challenges and promote open, constructive dialogue about online safety.