Sharon Harrison

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E-Safety Supporting students to be safe online
Sharon Harrison ICT Curriculum Manager, Barnet LA
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National Overview

• Byron report Safer Children in a Digital World
  
• March 2008.
• BECTA advice E-safety guidance on whole
  school responsibilities Feb 2009
• DCSF Safe to Learn Cyberbullying December 2007
• Local Safeguarding boards

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Every Child Matters Staying safe

• Safe from maltreatment, neglect, violence and
  sexual exploitation
• Safe from bullying and discrimination
• Safe from crime and anti-social behaviour in and
  out of school
• Have security, stability and are cared for

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SEF 4b

• To what extent do learners feel safe and adopt
  safe practices?
• For example the extent to which learners
  adopt safe and responsible practices, dealing
  sensibly with risk, in a range of activities
  within and outside the classroom, including the
  use of new technologies and the internet.

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Safeguarding Pupils in a Digital World Byron
Report March 2008

• ( Recommend)..action is taken at a whole-school
  level to ensure that e-safety is mainstreamed
  throughout the schools teaching, learning and
  other practices.
• 100 of schools should have Acceptable Use
  Policies that are regularly reviewed, monitored
  and agreed with parents and students.
• that all schools and local childrens services
  use an accredited filtering service.

• Ofsted take steps to hold schools to account
  and provide Government with a detailed picture of
  schools performance on e-safety.
• report on school responses to question 4b of the
  SEF (regarding e-safety).
• comment on the state of internet safety training
  in schools
• evaluates the extent to which schools teach
  learners to adopt safe and
• responsible practices in using new technology.

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Content, contact and conduct risks
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Current situation

• Do you have an up-to date e-Safety policy in
  place?
• Do all your staff understand and implement the
  policy?
• Do pupils and staff sign acceptable use of the
  Internet agreements?

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Actions

• Schools should have
• child protection / e-Safety officers
• e-Safety policy and guidance
• Acceptable Use of the Internet agreements for
  pupils, staff, parents
• an incident log which includes e-safety
• an e-Safety curriculum.

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Key agencies

• CEOP
• Childnet
• BECTA
• National Education Network
• LGfL

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Think U knowhttp//www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
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BECTA www.becta.org.uk

• Navigate to e-safety

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Bectas Schools website http//www.becta.org.uk/s
chools/esafety

• E-safety publication
• Main recommendations
• E-safety co-ordinator
• Policy and management team
• Checklists of AUPs
• Incident log

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NEN e-Safety content matrixhttp//www.nen.gov.uk/
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Working across London

• LGfL e-safety site www.safety.lgfl.net
• Evolving bank of resources
• Covers all aspects of Internet safety

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Actions.

• Register with ThinkuKnow to obtain the teachers
  materials from their site
• Become CEOP trained aimed at the secondary age
  range it is very informative and allows you to
  deliver your own training in school.
• Run e-safety assemblies downloadable from the
  Think U know site
• Obtain the DVDs or point people in the direction
  of the online versions of
• Lets Fight it TogetherDVD (related to
  cyberbullying)
• Know it All CDROM for parents and teachers
• (CDROM for parents is currently free to
  schools.)