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Much policy and debate in the online safeguarding world are driven by adultist views and a lack of youth voice. The Headstart Kernow project adopted an entirely flipped approach to researching how to support young people who had been subject to online harms by starting with a blank page and having the focus any intervention being driven by a youth voice. Underpinned with trauma-informed approaches, which are now prevalent in the children’s mental health arena, we argue that the lack of consideration of digital issues among adverse childhood experiences presents challenges when applying this approach to online safeguarding. What became clear from the work was that there was a prevailing view that adults will overreact to disclosures or not understand what they were told, and therefore, there was no point in disclosing. The discussions with young people were wide ranging and illustrated that many adultist concerns were not aligned with the reality of youth interactions online.
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Phippen, A., Street, L. (2022). Listening to Young People’s Concerns. In: Online Resilience and Wellbeing in Young People. Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88634-9_4
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