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World Vision's Approach to Digital Safeguarding with Mark Bentley

November 18, 2025 • Netsweeper • Episode 27

John Robb is joined by Mark Bentley, Global Senior Advisor for Digital Safeguarding at World Vision, in the latest episode of Inside the Sweeps. Mark brings decades of frontline experience in online safety, child protection and digital wellbeing, and now helps one of the world’s largest humanitarian organisations navigate the complex realities of keeping children safe in an increasingly connected world.

Mark discusses the practical challenges of safeguarding in low-tech settings, the role partnerships and technology can play, and why lasting change requires cultural shifts and local capacity—not just tools. Listen in for clear, experience-based insight into what meaningful digital protection looks like today and what success should mean going forward.