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The gulf between adult and child stakeholders within the domain of child online safety can be significant, and this is highlighted when exploring issues such as gaming and sexting with young people when they are given the opportunity to discuss them in a supportive and non-judgemental manner. The author proposes that the safety metaphor is failing, mainly due to an increasingly narrow and unhelpful focus upon prevention rather than empowerment, education or understanding. He also argues that any “solution” that erodes children and young people’s rights is no solution at all and suggests that, without an understanding of the root causes of online issues, and their relation to well-being and mental health, we will always fail to ensure they are “safe” online.
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Phippen, A. (2017). Where Next?. In: Children’s Online Behaviour and Safety. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57095-6_7
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