UK Safer Internet Centre a finalist in 2018 ISPA Awards

The UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC) has been shortlisted for an ISPA Award under the category Best Project or Partnership. The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), which hosts the awards, has chosen the UK Safer Internet Centre as a worthy candidate for the Best Project or Partnership Award 2018, which is one of three new awards added for 2018.

Date 2018-07-06 Author UK Safer Internet Centre Section awareness, hotlines

The UK SIC Partnership
The UK Safer Internet Centre is a partnership of three leading organisations: Childnet International, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL), with one mission - to promote the safe and responsible use of technology for young people.

The partnership was appointed by the European Commission as the Safer Internet Centre for the UK in January 2011 and is one of the 30 Safer Internet Centres of the Insafe network.

The centre has three main functions:

  • Awareness Centre: to provide advice and support to children and young people, parents and carers, schools and the children's workforce and to coordinate Safer Internet Day (SID) across the UK.
  • Helpline: to provide support to professionals working with children and young people with online safety issues.
  • Hotline: an anonymous and safe place to report and remove child sexual abuse imagery and videos, wherever they are found in the world.

Will Gardner, UK SIC Director and Childnet CEO, said:
"I am honoured that the UK Safer Internet Centre has been shortlisted for the project or partnership category in this year's ISPA awards. This partnership of three leading charities allows us to help young people around the country to be safe online, as well as to help those who are supporting young people.

"Our work as the UK Safer Internet Centre grows each year, with Safer Internet Day 2018 engaging more supporters and reaching 45 per cent of young people in the UK with real impact."

20th Anniversary Award
UK SIC partner, the IWF, have also been nominated for the ISPA 20th Anniversary Award.

The IWF has been nominated for its work with the internet industry over the last 20 years and its success in keeping the UK internet clear of online child sexual abuse content. Less than 1 per cent is now hosted in the UK compared with 18 per cent when the UK was first set up in 1996.

Susie Hargreaves OBE, IWF CEO, said:
"I'm so proud that the IWF has been nominated to win an ISPA award. Our analysts are world class and have worked incredibly hard to remove child sexual abuse imagery from the internet over the past 20 years. To have this success recognised by the internet industry is something which means a great deal to the whole team.

"Our work in the UK Safer Internet Centre is helping children across the country to stay safe on the internet, and the partnership with Childnet International and SWGfL has been fantastic. We're thrilled to see the partnership be nominated for an award."

The finalists for 2018 will be scrutinised by an "independent panel of industry experts," while broadband ISPs, website hosts and VoIP providers must undergo technical testing.

The winners will all be announced during an event held at the Midland Hotel in Manchester on 12 July 2018.

To read more about the ISPA Awards, go to www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-awards.

This article was originally published by UK Safer Internet Centre website and is republished here with permission - read the original article here.

Find out more about the work of the UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC), including its awareness raising, helpline, hotline and youth participation services.
 

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