Keeping Kids Safe Online: A Parent’s Guide
This session is designed to give parents clarity, confidence, and practical strategies to help their children navigate the internet safely without limiting their independence or curiosity.
About the Speakers:
Gary is an IT veteran with over 30 years experience in the IT channel.
As well as working with a leading security vendor healso co-authored Children of the digital age, produced a succesfull digital version and mini App with over 2000 downloads and 80,000 views.
He is the founder of OnSaCom the Online Safety Company who are creating a new platform to help busy parents understand the potential dangers online and keep themselves and their children safe.
Parents can spend just a few minutes each day following a series of action plans that are created to matvch their family’s unique requirements.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s data protection regulator, which works to build trust in how our personal data is used and protected. A key focus of the ICO’s work is on children’s privacy and Marianne recently researched, led and launched a new campaign offering practical support to help parents and carers have privacy conversations with their kids (find out more at www.ico.org.uk/SwitchedOn).
Marianne has spent more than 20 years working on campaigns for brands ranging from Aldi to Pets at Home and Lloyds Banking Group. She’s a mum of two kids – aged 12 and 14 – and knows the struggles of parenting in the digital age first-hand. Connect with Marianne on LinkedIn.
As Head of Programmes at Agent Academy, I’m privileged to lead strategic programme design and coordination across Manchester and Liverpool. What drives me is simple: nurturing North West talent who feel locked out of creative, tech and digital opportunities. My two decades in education, across secondary state and independent sectors, has given me a panoramic view of young people’s potential, and I love using that experience to create real, tangible opportunities. We are fortunate to work with brilliant partners including CGI, Everton FC, Liverpool Race Equality Hub, Salford City Council, and Electricity North West to design programmes that genuinely transform lives. Working with our growing team to expand and strengthen what we do is genuinely rewarding. At its heart, my work is about people and possibility. It’s about creating genuine pathways, and I’m proud to do that work.
Joe served as Head of Youth Work and Partnerships at HideOut Youth Zone since its opening in 2020 and now leads across EMPOWER youth zones, heading up the delivery team and fostering external collaborations and partnerships to support the organisation’s goals. Joe has worked with children and young people for over 20 years across a variety of settings, from youth centres and residential care homes to street-based work.
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