Govia Thameslink #Railway has created a #Safeguarding Manager role to support passengers and staff across its #Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink networks. The post replaces and broadens the former Suicide Prevention Manager role. Rebecca Butler, who has more than 20 years’ safeguarding experience with vulnerable young people and adults, has been appointed. She previously led safeguarding teams at #Brighton & Hove City Council. At GTR she works with managers on issues such as #suicide prevention, County Lines, homelessness and violence against women and girls, alongside Network Rail, local authorities, #British #Transport Police and #charities including the #Samaritans and Railway Children. GTR says the role strengthens its commitment to safety, with the wider safeguarding work also supported by its “Your Station, Your Community Improvement Fund”.
https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/govia-thameslink-railway/pressreleases/gtr-creates-safeguarding-manager-role-to-support-colleagues-and-passengers-3415899
#Safeguarding
*3 grams* is a fuckton of #cocaine for a 16 year old lad to have bought, and not cheap either.
Can't help that feel that although the dealer has been nicked, pleaded guilty (hence the relatively low sentence) and society thus assumes "justice has been done" there is a much wider #safeguarding issue here which is being overlooked.
It seems unlikely the lad was going to consume all 3 grams himself and coke is rarely the sort of stuff you do in your bedroom in the family home (it would be boring, and the paranoia unbearable) - was he also dealing to his mates or part of a wider circle of friends who are already heavy drug users in their teens (just like what I regularly saw in SE England and East Anglia about 20 years ago?)
#Enforce #Safeguarding #LGBTQ+ People from #DOXXING & #Outing
1. Clear #ICO #guidance recognizing Outing & DOXXING as #data #protection #violations.
2. #Mandatory #training for ICO #staff and #police, in #partnership with #Galop.
3. #Proactive safeguarding #measures to #prevent #harm to LGBTQ+ #individuals.
🌱 Schools can lead on climate action AND safeguarding.
Drake Primary shows how: energy audits, biodiversity projects, and eco-anxiety support—all embedded in governance and curriculum.
Read the full blog:
https://geogramblings.com/2025/10/24/drake-primary-schools-climate-journey-a-success-story/
#ClimateAction #Education #Safeguarding #Sustainability
FIVE EYES BRIEF
Minors appear in more CT cases, often via mixed online–offline environments. The paper recommends early, multi-agency intervention and practical safeguarding.
What roles should educators and youth workers play in identifying early signs of radicalisation?
#counterterrorism #extremism #prevention #safeguarding #onlinesafety
🌍 How can schools make climate action part of safeguarding?
Drake Primary shows us how: energy audits, biodiversity projects, and eco-anxiety support—all embedded in culture.
Read the full story:
👉 geogramblings.com/20...
#ClimateAction #Education #Safeguarding #Sustainability
Drake Primary School’s Climate...
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-finally-announce-progress-on-liberty-safeguards-but-also-challenge-vital-definition/. Can Stephen Kinnock, or any other member of this damn Government, be trusted with #safeguarding the #liberty of #disabled people? NO!!
Drake Primary proves sustainability isn’t an add-on—it’s safeguarding for the climate era. 🌍 From energy audits to eco-anxiety support, here’s what schools can learn.
Read the blog 👉 https://wp.me/p829C1-33q
#ClimateAction #Education #Safeguarding #Sustainability
Drake Primary School’s Climate...
Drake Primary proves sustainability isn’t an add-on—it’s safeguarding for the climate era. 🌍 From energy audits to eco-anxiety support, here’s what schools can learn.
Read the blog 👉 https://wp.me/p829C1-33q
#ClimateAction #Education #Safeguarding #Sustainability
http://geogramblings.com/2025/10/24/drake-primary-schools-climate-journey-a-success-story/
Our new comprehensive guide to the #OnlineSafety requirements for #UK #Schools is out!
https://www.opendium.com/blogs/uk-online-safety-guidance-2025
The online safety guidance provided to #British schools is complex, and spread across a number of publications from several different organisations. We have, once again, pulled all of this information together into a comprehensive up to date document, explaining what schools are expected to do to meet the online safety guidance for 2025.
Inquiry Reveals Early Warnings Ignored in Case of Southport Killer
The Southport Inquiry revealed that Axel Rudakubana, who later killed three young girls at a dance class, exhibited alarming violent behavior years earlier. In 2019, Rudakubana attacked a fellow pupil at Range High School with a knife and later with a hockey stick, while also carrying a knife in his... [More info]
✅ Epieos is leveling up!
At the end of this month, you’ll find us at International Security Expo 🇬🇧 with a brand-new booth, fresh features, and exciting news.
🗓️ 30 September – 1 October, 2025
📍 Olympia, London
🤝 Join Epieos alongside more than 10,000 professionals dedicated to #safeguarding businesses, #protecting people and critical infrastructure, countering #terrorism, and driving homeland and international #security forward.
👮♂️ Don’t miss the chance to experience the #private version of Epieos, designed exclusively for #lawenforcement and #government agencies to discover how Epieos can support your investigations.
On one level this #meme is genuinely funny, but in reality its a good way for the kid to end up with a #safeguarding referral or worse, Dad ends up losing custody/visiting rights if he is no longer in a relationship with the kids mum (its happened to people I know!)
(I suspect the meme is from about 10-15 years ago when folk were more tolerant about #partydrugs use)
Currently wading through 187 pages of Keeping Children Safe in Education. The #DfE saw fit to publish the latest edition moments before school's broke up for the summer, with the expectation that they would implement the new recommendations from September, which seems somewhat mean.
"#Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative infrastructure for #archiving and disseminating of #culturalheritage and #scientificknowledge. We seek to preserve cultural memory in a way that traditional archives cannot. Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear."
V. @lavaeolus
https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/
The #UK’s #OnlineSafetyAct, aimed at protecting #children from harmful online content, has sparked #controversy, particularly from the #right in #Britain and the #US. Critics argue the act infringes on free speech and could lead to #censorship, while proponents emphasise its importance in #safeguarding children. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/social-media-battles-and-barbs-on-both-sides-of-atlantic-over-uk-online-safety-act?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
Tweaking ones own #flow focus - is a life long battle against everything that want to hijack it.
Getting better at #safeguarding against hijackers - is well worth investing improving ones skills to do though.
For that #notifications - is key to get in order. It is the main source of wasting your precious time and energy, stealing it from what you really would like to do.
Most you actually don't need at all.
World Emoji Day: Experts warn of hidden meanings behind popular symbols
As the world marks World Emoji Day on 17 July, safeguarding professionals are urging parents, carers and educators to look beyond the colourful symbols and consider the hidden meanings that may lie beneath.
While emojis are often used to express humour, emotion or creativity, they can also form part of a fast-evolving digital language among children and young people—one that adults may not fully understand.
“A rapidly evolving hidden language is emerging among children and young people that adults may remain completely unaware of,” said Dr Richard Anderson, Head of Learning & Development at High Speed Training. “This trend presents significant safeguarding risks, making it crucial for anyone who works with or cares for young people to understand the potential hidden meanings behind these messages.”
“What may appear to be harmless, playful emojis on a child’s phone could, in reality, be concealing racist remarks, drug-related discussions, sexual propositions, or instances of cyber bullying. The use of double meanings also allows for plausible deniability when questioned, further complicating the issue.”
The issue has gained wider attention following the release of Netflix’s hit drama Adolescence, which explores how emojis and slang are used to mask harmful behaviour among teens.
Common emojis and their potentially hidden meanings
Incel terms:
🔴 / 💊 – This refers to the ‘red pill’ and a reference to the film The Matrix. To have ‘taken the red pill’ means to have realised the ‘truth’ about women and society.
🔵 – Continuing the analogy above, the ‘blue pill’ refers to people who incels regard as being unaware of the ‘truth’.
⚫ – An extreme, nihilistic expression of realising the ‘truth’. Incels who take the ‘black pill’ resign themselves to the fact that their position in society (and sexual success, or lack of) is predetermined and there’s nothing that they can do to alter it.
💥 / 🧨 – Referring to an ‘exploding red pill’ and used to identify someone as an incel.
💯 – Relating to the ‘80 to 20 rule’, a theory that 80% of women are attracted to 20% of men.
🫘 – Used to identify or self-identify as an incel.
Potentially bullying or threatening emojis:
❄ – An overly sensitive person, or someone who is easily offended
🧢 – A lie
🐍 – Used to call someone untrustworthy or a ‘back-stabber’
👊 or 🤕👉🤕 or 👊👉🚑 – A threat of physical violence
👻 – Refers to being ‘ghosted’ – ignored or dumped without being given an explanation
💉 or 🤔🔫 or 💊🛀💀 or 🛤🚶💀 – These emojis can signify self-harm or suicidal ideation
Drug references:
🥦 or 🌳or 🍁 or 💨 or 🎱- Marijuana/cannabis/weed
❄ or 🥥 or ⛄ or 🤧 or 🔑- Cocaine
🔌- Drug dealer
Sexual references:
🔨 or 👉👌 or 👉🌭 or 👉🌮 – Sex or sexual activity
🥵 or 🔥 – Hot – as in you/they are hot, in a sexual sense
🌶 or 😵- Inappropriate or ‘spicy’ content/seeing something ‘X’ rated
✂ – Lesbian
🍑 or 🚚 – Buttocks
🌮 or 🍉 or 🍯 or 🌷or 🍩- Female genitalia
🍌 or 🍆 or 🌽 – Penis
🍒 or 🐫 or 🍻 – Breasts
🍒 – Virginity
👅 or 👄 or 🧠 or 🍭 – Oral sex
🍑 🍆 – Anal sex
💦 or 🎤 – Orgasm/ejaculation
🎤🙆♀️ – Female orgasm
✊ 💦 or 👋 – Masturbation
🍝- Nudes – nude or semi-nude photographs
🌽 – Pornography
Dr Anderson, whose team at High Speed Training conducted the research, added:
“Parents and teachers can help protect children online by staying informed, fostering open communication, and integrating online safety into everyday learning. Recognising hidden meanings in symbols and slang can help to identify potential risks, but it is equally important to remember that not all digital interactions carry a deeper message. By keeping the conversation ongoing and empowering children to seek support we can ensure young people are being appropriately safeguarded.”
For further guidance, High Speed Training has published a detailed emoji and texting abbreviation guide for parents and educators, available via their online safeguarding hub.
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#children #emoji #onlineSafety #Safeguarding #socialMedia #WorldEmojiDay #youngPeople
Some people go into Showbiz purely to prey upon other people, don't they?
Digital Life Skills: Thanks to everyone who came along to today’s ‘Safeguarding Awareness for Parents & Carers’ training. It was great to be able to share our new online safety resources.