HeadStart Digital Resilience Tool
The Digital Resilience Tool provides a practical way for professionals to assess young people’s online behaviour and help them make decisions about whether that behaviour represents risk of harm.
Training on how to use the tool to assess young people's online behaviour; what to do when you have identified a behaviour and online activities and the law.
Guidance around digital issues for those supporting SEND young people
A tool to help young people understand whether something they experienced or witnessed was ok, or whether they should seek support.
An overview of what we mean by the terms used in the Digital Resilience Tool.
A podcast for anyone who supports young people - we talk about the issues young people face online
Support for parents
We’ve got tailor made support for parents, with information sheets and podcasts helping you understand your child’s online behaviour organised by age.
Posters for professionals
Download and print this poster for your staff room to help your team remember the key messages when it comes to young people and the digital world. (link to poster)
Article on how we made the tool
Read this article to find out about how we developed the tool with young people across Cornwall. (link to article)
The Online Resilience Tool
The Online Resilience Tool provides a practical way for professionals to assess young people’s online behaviour and help them make decisions about whether that behaviour represents risk of harm.
The Tool was developed as part of the Digital work-stream of the HeadStart Kernow programme in partnership with University of Bournemouth and the Professionals Online Safety Helpline. In total around 1000 children and young people in Cornwall were involved in the development process through workshops and discussion groups over a three year period.
The Digital Resilience Tool is available to download for free.
Digital Resilience Tool Training
If you want to know more about how to use the tool you can do our free training, just follow this link. If you don't already have an account, create a free account. Once you have access to the Hub, go to the HOME tab, Select Wellbeing Training to Support Schools - scroll down and select 'Digital Resilience Tool Training Updated’.
This training covers how to use the tool to assess young people's online behaviour; what to do when you have identified a behaviour and online activities and the law. The course is self-guided e-learning and takes approximately 2 hours.
SEND Digital Resilience Guidance
This guidance is aimed at people who support children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. We’ve taken the key messages from the Digital Resilience Tool and distilled them into some straightforward advice so that you can make sure that all professionals supporting a young person are giving the same information and using the same language.
Was That Ok Tool
‘Was That OK’ is a tool for young people. It aims to give them information if they have experienced or witnessed something that they think might be harmful, but aren’t sure. There is information about how to get support, suggestions of who they can talk to and details about whether behaviours are legal or illegal.
We’ve also made a video to help professionals who want to know more about the tool, which also contains advice about responding to young people if they come to talk to you after using the tool.
Not Harmful, Potentially Harmful and Harmful
We’ve put together some explainers about the terms ‘Not Harmful’, ‘Potentially Harmful’ and ‘Harmful’ which are used throughout the Digital Resilience Tool. You can download them at the links below.
If you have any questions / comments please feel free to contact:
Louisa Street - louisa.street@packshare.org
Professor Andy Phippen - aphippen1@bournemouth.ac.uk
