CyberSafe Scotland

Hi All, hope the first few days or weeks of summer (depending on where you are in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) have been treating you well and that the weather is helping a little with the screen juggle - we know how hard it can be especially as the weeks go on.

We’ve had an incredibly encouraging month - more on that in the next few weeks.

This is just a wee post to let you know our plans for the summer - Katrina, Alana and I are around all holiday to help. We are working on updating the Respected and Safe lessons for next year, but we also plan to share info on here about key changes we know are coming on platforms over the next few months, and new resources e.g.:

- big changes are expected on Roblox in the next few weeks, we’ve been running some sessions on those so will share some bits,
- Insta have just changed their AI policy this week - we’ll post about that in the next few days so you can check if it impacts you
- we have some new guides to share with you that we’d love your support with later in the summer, to really tackle online sexual abuse and disrupting it before it starts

All summer please DM if you have any questions or want to flag anything to us, or you can use the chat function on our website if you prefer.

I’m currently on a train to Edinburgh for a meeting about a project called Informed Voices - it’s a partnership between Parent Zone and Ofcom about supporting children and young people to recognise misinformation about elections online. I’ll share info on the website next week in case it is helpful.

In the meantime, really hope you are well ☀️

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