In recent years, Child Focus has increasingly been contacted by teachers and educators about situations involving non-consensual sexting. This workshop is an ideal opportunity to support hundreds of schools in the media education of their students as a springboard to launch further initiatives within the school to promote safer internet use. 

The interactive Internet Safe&Fun workshops teach children aged 10 to 12 the right practices for a fun, safe, aware and responsible online experience. The animators, trained by Child Focus, look at their online activities from a positive perspective with young internet users while making them aware of the risks they sometimes take on platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Fortnite. This particular day of action occurs twice a year, once in March and once in October. Annually, Child Focus reaches between 12,000 and 14,000 students this way. 

The animators discuss four practical situations straight from the children's world. The situations are linked to platforms the children use to make it as relatable as possible for them. For example, they discuss the importance of privacy on TikTok, sexting on Snapchat, cyberbullying on Instagram and contact with strangers on Fortnite. 

Child Focus can count on partners  

Child Focus can count on the growing loyalty of several partners from the private sector for these workshops: Proximus, Microsoft, Deloitte, BNP Paribas Fortis, Sopra Steria, Sopra Banking Software and ARAG. More and more companies are adding this action to their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives. Child Focus provides the didactic material and trains the employees so that they can give the Internet Safe&Fun workshops themselves on one of the two action days. 

Teachers are encouraged to build on this workshop  

Internet Safe&Fun is a first step. Teachers can continue to work with their students afterwards. Child Focus offers various educational materials for teachers to work around online safety. After the workshop, teachers receive an overview of the free educational materials available to deepen certain aspects of this topic (Clicksafe, Catalogue of prevention material, Quiz - Internet Safe & Fun). 

More information is available on the Internet Safe&Fun website. 

Find out more about the work and initiatives of the Belgian Safer Internet Centre or find similar information for Safer Internet Centres throughout Europe.