Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Fearghal Burke:
In 2016 and 2017, Clare Comhairle na nÓg was involved in an Erasmus+ exchange with its equivalent in Iceland, the Samfés committee. Each group delivered workshops to the other on areas of common interest, including positive mental health and cybersafety. The young people from Samfés had developed and run a sexting peer education workshop in 2016 and they translated it into English for us. It was a good experience which led to lively and interesting debate. We now have formatted this sexting workshop, which could be adapted to the Irish context. We are looking for funding to run the programme itself.
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