Children themselves rarely engage directly with protective services unless they are referred into the child protection system by a third party adult. Technologies have enabled children to communicate in new ways as children today become digital natives. Sarah shares insights from her research and her passion for safeguarding children and tech for social good. Working with children as equal partners for further research and innovation and leading the first Children's Safeguarding Digital Cooperative Design Centre in the field of Social Care Tech.

While all of us dream of a better world, some of us are busy making it a better and safer place to live in; Sarah Carlick is one of them. She is the founder of MeSafe, a social-care tech startup that created the world’s first safeguarding digital platform to protect children and young people. Sarah’s dedication to the industry began much earlier: in 2007 she founded ‘The Athena Programme’, a successful safeguarding training and consultancy company that helps organizations to be safeguarding compliant.



Starting her career as a social worker and then a probation officer, she has gained an incredible amount of experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, backed by her rigorous academic background. She has a diploma and degree in Social Work from Lancaster University, an MA in Arts-Health from the University of Central Lancashire and has recently obtained a PhD studying the use of creative technologies in the safeguarding industry.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx