“Children and young people need to be empo mpowered red to keep themselves safe – this isn’t about a top-down approach. Children will be children – pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim …..” … just like in the offline world, no amount of effort to reduce potential risks to children will eliminate those risks completely. We cannot make the internet completely safe. Because of this, we must build children’s resilience to the e materi erial al to which ch they y may be expose
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