Delivered by Rod Landman
Content Warning: Grooming, Abuse and Coercive Control
This webinar will address recent learning concerning online harms and threats centred on grooming with a focus on Autism and Learning Disabilities. Drawing on project work, involving experts by experience, on mate crime, sexual exploitation, social media grooming for the purposes of radicalisation, and domestic abuse/sexual violence. Rod covers: Risk factors; The online world, learning disability and autism; Grooming; Case law and Key tools. This webinar will take an ‘Online Positive’ approach, which argues that the internet is a fabulously positive thing in most people’s lives. Responses to dangerous online activity should be about harm mitigation and empowerment.
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Rod has spent his whole life working in learning disability and autism services, in many roles and across agencies, most recently for ARC England. His work has encompassed work on sexual health, mate crime, sexual exploitation, domestic abuse/sexual violence, extremism/radicalisation and online harms. He works alongside learning disabled and autistic colleagues in project work and training. ARC England is a national umbrella organisation for learning disability and autism providers. Its mission statement is: Changing Thinking, Changing Practice, Changing Lives.
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