Online Parent Session: How to Help Our Children Stay Safe Online

Join Ctrl+Shft for an informative and empowering online workshop designed specifically for parents and carers. This session will explore the challenges and opportunities our children face in today’s digital world—and provide practical strategies for keeping them safe, respectful, and resilient online.

What You’ll Learn:

Discover key insights and tools to help your child navigate the online space with confidence:

• Terms & Conditions Explained: Understand what you’re really signing up for and how to make informed decisions.
• Safeguarding Personal Data: Explore how to protect personal information in the age of GenAI and rapidly evolving technology.
• Nurturing Respectful Online Relationships: Learn how to support your child through issues like sexting, image-based abuse, and online harassment.
• Scams, Hoaxes, Deepfakes & Misinformation: Help your child recognise what's real (and what's not) in a world of ‘fake news’.
• Group Chat Management: Discover strategies to keep group chats positive, inclusive, and drama-free.
• Cyberbullying & Online Resilience: Build your child’s ability to stand strong in the face of online negativity.
• Sharing Photos Safely: Find out how to post online while respecting your child’s privacy.
• Safe & Respectful Online Gaming: Create healthy boundaries for online play and social interaction.
• Creating a Positive Digital Footprint: Support your child in building a strong and safe online presence.
• No fear. No guilt. Just support, knowledge, and tools to raise empowered digital citizens.

Event Details:

• This is an online-only presentation.
• Age Requirement: 18+ (for parents and carers only)
• Registration is required. Zoom details will be sent to registered attendees.

Registration 

Meet Your Presenter – Kirra Pendergast

Founder, Chief Digital Safety & Governance Strategist

Founder of Safe on Social and CTRL+SHFT, Kirra Pendergast maps the cultural, emotional, and legal fallout of emerging technologies and builds proactive frameworks to prevent it. 

Where traditional technologists forecast features, she forecasts impact. Where compliance asks, “Is this legal?”, she also asks, “Is this ethical, survivable, and just?”. With over 30 years of experience Kirra is a global authority on human-centred digital risk, psychosocial safety, and online governance. She has been at the forefront of building systems that protect people not platforms. 

Kirra led wholeof- government cybersecurity and identity governance programs before turning her focus to digital safety reform after surviving a sustained cyber abuse campaign in 2013. That trauma catalysed the founding of Safe on Social, which became largest independent and unbiased digital safety education agency globally. Her influence spans more than 1,200 organisations across five continents. She has advised national governments, contributed to legislative reform, and designed industry-first frameworks. 

In 2025, Safe on Social evolved to CTRL+SHFT in partnership with Maggie Dent, Dr. Brad Marshall, and Madeleine West. CTRL+SHFT is a multidisciplinary coalition focused on protecting every school, family, and workplace from emerging digital harms. Kirra is known for her ability to blend deep technical fluency with traumainformed system design, regulatory intelligence, and culture-shifting education.