“Empowering, educating and encouraging young people and their families to be safe in their virtual world”.

This will be achieved by:

Empowering young people by

• Ensuring that they know who the Public Protection Branch are and how we keep people safe.
• Ensuring that they are aware of the pressures they will face as teenagers both in their virtual and real worlds.
• Ensure that they are aware it’s alright to say ‘No’.
• Ensuring that they are aware of risky behaviours and know how to keep themselves and each other safe.

Educating young people by

• Ensuring sound legislative knowledge around issues such as ‘sexting’, age of consent etc.
• Ensuring they know of the immediate and longer term consequences of becoming involved in any type of sexual offending not only as victims, but also as perpetrators.
• Ensuring they are aware of the problems associated with excessive use of on-line pornography.

Encouraging young people by

• Acknowledging the Public Protection Branch can help them.
• Ensuring they think about their on-line reputation.
• Promoting real world relationships as opposed to virtual ones.