Personal safety and exploitation
We all want to keep our children safe. You’ve probably already talked to them about things like crossing the road safely. But have you spoken to them about how to stay safe from sexual abuse?
Clever Never Goes
We spend the first few years doing everything we can to protect our children, then we have to learn how to give them some independence.
Teaching children simply to avoid strangers doesn’t work. Most strangers will help rather than harm children. Conversely, it is often people known to children that pose the greatest threat.
Clever Never Goes teaches children to recognise when someone (anyone) is asking them to go with them. It’s about giving your child practical safety skills and confidence to engage with the outside world.
PANTS
We know it’s a conversation no parent wants to have, but we believe it can feel just as natural, and be just as easy, as the road safety chat. We call it talking PANTS. From P through to S, each letter gives an important message for children as young as four to help them stay safe.
Kayleigh’s Love Story
With the support of Kayleigh’s family, Leicestershire Police made a film showing parts of the last 14 days of her life.
Kayleigh’s Love Story is a warning to young people, both girls and boys, about online grooming and the dangers of speaking to strangers or ‘friends’ you only know online.
The film highlights how quick and easy it can be for children to be groomed online without them even knowing it is happening. Its purpose is to protect children and stop another family losing a child in this way.
Breck's Last Game
Breck Bednar was a 14-year-old boy from Surrey who was murdered in 2014 after being groomed online. Like many boys of his age, Breck loved technology and spent lots of time gaming – often playing against other online ‘friends’ as part of a wider virtual group.
Breck’s Last Game is designed to make young people think about who they are in contact online and asks the question - Do you know who your online friends really are?