ARC England Masterclasses For Change: Lunch and Learn about Online Harms, Grooming and People with Learning Disabilities

Online Harms and Grooming: Supporting Adults with Learning Disabilities and Autism to Stay Safe

A one-hour online ARC England Lunch and Learn session co-delivered by expert trainer Rod Landman and people with lived experience of learning disabilities and online harms

“All the supported people we worked with preferred the online world to ‘real life’.” Rod Landman, Project Lead, Get SMART

The online world is a fantastic place for most people, most of the time. But, just as its benefits are arguably greater for supported people, so are the risks.

Do you know how to empower people whilst also keeping them safe from online grooming, exploitation and abuse?

This ARC England Masterclass session is co-delivered alongside supported people with lived experience of learning disability and online harms. It is designed to raise awareness and develop good practice responses to online harms.

It is suitable for anyone supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

The session covers:

• What are we afraid of?

• What do we know?

• What are the risks?

• How do people want to be supported?

• What does and doesn’t work?

The session is a live webinar in Microsoft Teams. We welcome questions but due to the wealth of the material, opportunities for discussion and questioning will be limited.

Previous participants said:

"Really helpful"

"A good introduction to online harms"

10% discount for ARC England members - please select ticket type 'ARC England Member Admission' when booking. 

For a fuller training experience you may like to sign up for the full day co-produced Online Harms and Learning Disability workshop. Attendees at our Masterclass will be given a 10% discount on this full day workshop. 

Feedback from learners on our training workshops:

“Great knowledge from the trainers, interactive session and full of advice and tips.”

“Great training for anyone supporting people with learning disabilities or autism to stay safe online. The lived experiences brought the training to life.”

“Excellent and excellent resources. Good to have input from experts by experience.”

“Very productive and realistic. Good broad overview as well as practical detail.”

Post-workshop evaluation from our full day Online Harms workshop:

• 100% of learners said the workshop did what it said it would do
• 99% would recommend it to others
• 100% of learners said that it had increased their confidence in the area
• 100% said it had increased their knowledge
• 99% said their practice would change