OPS NOTE: Anti-online grooming materials launched by NSPCC and Swansea University

NSPCC Cymru / Wales and Swansea University will launch material for child protection professionals to help them recognise and combat the grooming of young people online.

‘Stop TIME Online’ is a set of written and digital resources based on ground-breaking Swansea University research into the language paedophiles use to groom their victims online. The research discovered that online grooming can happen alarmingly fast, sometimes within hours.

The new NSPCC anti-grooming materials are being made available to people who work with children and young people, beginning with the NSPCC’s own service centres in Wales and North West England.

The launch event is taking place at Swansea University Bay Campus where NSPCC staff and members of the Swansea University Stop TIME Online research team will be available for interview.

11am-1pm

Thursday September 28th

School of Management

Swansea Bay Campus

Room 239

Speakers include:

Professor Richard B Davies, Vice Chancellor of Swansea University

Carl Sargeant AM, Cabinet Secretary for Children and Communities

Keith Towler, Former Children’s Commissioner for Wales and Member of the Welsh National Independent Safeguarding Board

Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Swansea University

Ruth Mullineux, Project Lead for NSPCC Wales

Naomi, NSPCC Young Ambassador

Media are welcome to attend the project launch and interviewees will be available upon request.

Please contact NSPCC Cymru / Wales via the details below:
chris.seal@nspcc.org.uk or 02920 108159

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