Ms Jody Whelan:

Fearghal and I will talk about the context and motivation, a sexting workshop we took part in and our cybersafety programme. I will start off with the context and motivation.

Clare Comhairle na nÓg takes its work plan directly from topics and suggestions put forward by young people in Clare. The main source is the comhairle AGM held in October. Additional input comes from Clare youth service, CYS, surveys and focus groups run by youth workers and Younger Voices. At the end of 2014, the issue of cybersafety was evident from feedback at the comhairle AGM in our discussion groups and through focus groups facilitated by CYS. Cybersafety became part of the Clare comhairle work plans in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015 and 2016, we made a short film which included aspects of inappropriate sharing and ran a consultation which examined attitudes to oversharing online.