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  Subject: Events

  Location: Online event

  Start Date: February 10, 2026

  End Date: February 10, 2026

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LookCloser The Digital Lives of Children and Young People

The Digital Lives of Children and Young People Young people’s lives span the physical and digital worlds, with each of these as real as the other. Innovations in technology bring great opportunities but they also facilitate new ways for perpetrators to access and exploit children and to keep their activities hidden. In this session, co delivered with the Marie Collins Foundation, we aim to share our learning and increase awareness of some of these new and emerging online exploitation concerns with a particular focus on the Financial Exploitation of children and young people and Sexually Coerced Extortion. This session is aimed at professionals working at protecting children from exploitation and will aim to: Explore how to best engage with young people regarding their digital lives and through doing so better protect them from harm. Consider current and emerging online exploitation concerns, with a particular focus on financial exploitation and sexually coerced extortion. Discuss recent developments in online safety including the Online Safety Act and End to End Encryption and how these impact safeguarding young people from exploitation. Build understanding of the risks to children and young people online, including the dark web and gaming. Create space to share new and emerging online exploitation issues which attendees are encountering in their practice.