Dr. Siobh?n O'Higgins:

In the incidents I mentioned, there were more than 50 parents at the evening event and three parents were very sure it was wrong and was about grooming children and so on. I was giving a presentation and one parent at the front was taking photographs of all my slides, so I said she could have my slides and I would give them to her. She talked about how it was about paedophilia and grooming children but I said that, in fact, it was about reducing vulnerability. We talked to that and the principal then came in to say we were engaging with those resources because we wanted to give young people knowledge in order that they could be safer, both online and face to face, with any kind of engagement and building of relationships. The other parents at the event were starting to get annoyed and saying they did not agree with the people objecting, so eventually, the three people who were there to disrupt or say they did not agree left and the rest of the parents were then able to engage with us and ask questions about what it would mean and what resources we had.

We have an online resource to give young people critical media-literacy skills. It is not just about pornography but about everything, on all social media. There is a lot of sexual media involved in all of that, such as in the songs they listen to.

It is to give them the skills to deconstruct what they are seeing for themselves. That is an online resource. We create a unit of learning for schools in that we have a workshop that is delivered by trained teachers and the online resource, the sex on our screens resource, which has been worked through with parents, teachers and young people to get the language right and so on. We take a long time to pilot everything. We have a drama which appeals to people in a different way because they are sitting and watching 11 different scenes performed by four actors on four blocks of wood, basically. That is what they do.