Creating safe faith spaces online – how digital safeguarding works in practice
17 February 2023
Safeguarding Internet Day is celebrated around the world and in 2023 took place on Tuesday 7th February. This year, it was based around the theme "Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations and life online". In this blog, Elliot Crippen, Digital Enabler for Yorkshire North and East District, shares how digital safeguarding needs to be applied to create safe spaces for faith online and how this works in practice in the church.
You may be especially interested to read about how, as part of his role as a digital expert, Elliot got together with his district safeguarding expert and came up with a Digital Safeguarding Best Practice Reference Document – a comprehensive list of FAQs that provides suggestions on how creating safe space online works in practice.
Read the blog here.