Alex Dave: Digital Media Use, Parental Partnership and Online Safety in the Early Years

In this episode, we’re joined by Alex Dave, a safeguarding education officer at LGfL. Alex has a degree in early childhood and over 15 years of experience in the education and safeguarding sector.

During our conversation we cover:

- Eye-opening statistics around 3-5 year old’sdigital media use

- How digital media can support learning anddevelopment

- Creating a whole-setting approach to digitalmedia use

- The importance of online safeguarding

- Ways early years settings can work with parentson screen time and digital media use at home

Enjoy!

Alex’s Links:

LGfL Online Safety in Early Years Resources: https://eysafe.lgfl.net/

LGfL Parent Safe: https://parentsafe.lgfl.net/

LGfL website full of support for professionals to use tohelp engage with parents’ online safety: https://parentonlinesafety.lgfl.net/

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