Sarah spent the last 13 years of her police career as a Detective in Serious Crime/CID. Sarah feels compassionate about keeping children safe online and is using her experience of supporting victims and prosecuting defendants who possessed and distributed indecent images of children by speaking to students, parents and teaching professionals about travelling a digital world safely.
Sarah is a mum myself to 3 boys, 2 are in Secondary Education and her youngest is in Primary education.
In presentations Sarah describes what she has encountered during Grooming, Sexting and bullying offences to help the children fully understand the risks and ideas for parents on how to parent in a digital world.
Sarah recognises young people’s demand of the internet for their digital life. She understands the effects of social media safety from a victim and defendant perspective and reflects there is a balance of the need to be on social media and encourages the students to protect their digital footprint.
Sarah supports parents by demonstrating parental apps, support and the need to understand their children’s digital world is building their digital footprint for their future foundations in life, education and employment. She ensures the parents recognise the positives of social media and their children’s digital world needs to be every day chat.
The subjects Sarah delivers are to help reduce the risks of grooming, cyber bullying and sexting. Sarah has the students compare with them online and offline friendships. She then summaries with multi agency support available.
Sarah engages the children in KS1 with characters who are needing help do complete homework online, making friends and playing games online. With KS2, Sarah adapts to concentrate on strangers online and cyber bullying. Moving along with KS3 and KS4 Sarah concentrates on inappropriate images, sexting and ensuring they have an employable digital footprint.
Sarah is supporting schools educating children with Disabilities and Special Education Needs.
Following a role in the response unit Sarah joined CID investigating a wide variety of serious crime, including Murder, Burglary, Sexual offences, Violence and prosecuting defendants who possessed and distributed indecent images of children. Sarah specialised in interviewing children and vulnerable victims of all areas of crime including sexual offences and safeguarding investigations.
Sarah is passionate about ensuring children of all ages are enabled to use the internet and social media safely, productively, and effectively.
North Yorkshire
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