Narrated by Australian actress and mother, Caroline Craig, season two offers valuable tips and advice on how to keep kids safe online. Alongside parents, teachers, and industry experts, the episodes also contain valuable tips and advice from the AFP-led ThinkUKnow Program - Australia’s only national law enforcement-led online child safety program that delivers community presentations and online resources to raise awareness of online child sexual exploitation.
Episode guide and transcripts
Narrated by Australian actress and mother, Caroline Craig, season two offers valuable tips and advice on how to keep kids safe online. Alongside parents, teachers, and industry experts, the episodes also contain valuable tips and advice from the AFP-led ThinkUKnow Program - Australia’s only national law enforcement-led online child safety program that delivers community presentations and online resources to raise awareness of online child sexual exploitation.
Episode 1
Focusing on what children are seeing and doing online. The episode speaks with the people behind the AFP-led ThinkUKnow online safety program, including volunteers who have been presenting for more than 10 years. AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw, Microsoft’s Phil Myer and Maria Bennett from Neighbourhood Watch are among those featured. You'll also hear from a parent who has learnt valuable tips from Season 1 of Closing The Net around having open conversations with his kids.
Closing The Net - Season 2 Episode 1, See Say Do (transcript)
Episode 2
This episode breaks down some of the myths about online child sexual exploitation and explains how easily it can happen to your child. It includes a case study of 13-year-old girl who sent naked images of herself to someone she didn’t know on Snapchat. The mother tells the podcast she was reluctant to allow her daughter on social media, but relented because her daughter’s friends were on the platform. When her daughter exchanged the image, the offender asked for more. When she refused, the image was sent to her school friends via snapchat.
Closing The Net - Season 2 Episode 2, Time To Talk (transcript)