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.

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

Kate Rendle (ID:YOU) and Karen Emmett (Chiswick School) talk about some of the key societal pressures and ways to support girls with digital wellness strategies and tools to help build offline skills.

Game Over? Understanding Digital Wellbeing for Adolescent Boys

Richard Bristow (The Portsmouth Grammar School), Zack Morgan (Ark Charter Academy) and Mark Hammond (Northbourne Prep) talk about the positive and negative potential of gaming and ways to develop healthy technology boundaries and strategies for parents.

Digital Guardians: Empowering Parents to Navigate Online Safety

Pete Whitmell (Notting Hill Prep) and Hoong Kwan (Seqrd Tech) discuss ways to have constructive conversations about digital boundaries and technical solutions for monitoring or other practical intervention tools.

Webinar Empowering Every Learner: Supporting the most vulnerable online.

Jozsef Kalman (Marjory Kinnon School) and Judith Stephenson (Barbara Priestman Academy) share their insights and their practical safety approaches, where technology is an ally and explore some of the protocols they have developed to protect their students.

UPCOMING WEBINARS
 

 19th June 2025 – 4.30pm

Beyond the Pouch: Building a Culture of Digital Responsibility in Schools.   

In this webinar we are going to look at the current mobile phone dilemma experienced by schools balanced alongside the ‘trust paradox’ as schools develop self-regulation and responsibility in their students to help them become ‘digital citizens’. Our panel will look at the control vs empowerment approaches from their own settings, age-appropriate digital responsibility, creating a school-wide culture of digital wellbeing and how they have addressed legitimate safety concerns as outlined in KCSIE guidance.  

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11th September 2025 - 4.30pm

Eyes on EYFS: Changing their digital future.

Our webinar will examine the importance of the foundation years and ask how we can change the narrative and consign some of the negative and worrying statistics about digital wellbeing to the history books. Our panel will look at some of the practical approaches they have used in the Early Years to help children thrive online and how to develop a digital approach that effectively engages parents and children.

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 TBC - 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.

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.

3. Podcast - Getting Started: How to Navigate the Digital Journey. (published 5th June 2025)