The Childnet Digital Leaders Programme is to launch in September 2015 and wants to train and support young people to “champion digital citizenship and digital creativity within their schools”.
Ofsted states that “outstanding” e-safety practice should involve the active participation and leadership of young people, but Childnet says that this aspect is still one of the weakest areas of e-safety provision in schools.
The charity’s programme was piloted last year and the results show that 70 per cent of pupils who took part in e-safety sessions with their school’s young digital leaders said they would now be more careful about what they share online. The programme, which is supported by Facebook and the European Union, will offer young people access to an online community where they can receive training and support from a Childnet team of experts and recognition of their progress and achievements.
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