Online Safety and Safeguarding Update Jo Graham jgraham@rm.com

Safeguarding in the 21st Century Latest requirements, including filtering and monitoring Understanding Ofsted requirements Working with and engaging parents Latest apps and trends

Safeguarding in the 21st Century – latest requirements, including filtering and monitoring

Keeping children safe in education: for school and college staff (part 1) All staff must read this guidance as part of their Induction

Keeping children safe in education: for school and college staff (part 1) Specific reference to: Cyberbullying and Sexting (see page 9) Advises that: “Expert and professional organisations are best placed to provide up-to-date guidance and practical support on specific safeguarding issues.”

Keeping children safe in education: for school and college staff (part 1) Help and advice

Keeping children safe in education: Statutory guidance from Sept 2016

Keeping children safe in education: Statutory guidance from Sept 2016 The breadth of issues classified within online safety is considerable, but can be categorised into three areas of risk: • content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful material • contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users • conduct: personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm

Appropriate Filtering Recognising that no filter can guarantee to be 100% effective, schools should be satisfied that their filtering system manages the following content (and web search)

Appropriate Filtering Amongst the revisions, schools are obligated to “ensure appropriate filters and appropriate monitoring systems are in place. Children should not be able to access harmful or inappropriate material from the school or colleges IT system” However, schools will need to “be careful that “over blocking” does not lead to unreasonable restrictions as to what children can be taught with regards to online teaching and safeguarding.” It is important to recognise that no filtering systems can be 100% effective and need to be supported with good teaching and learning practice and effective supervision.

Appropriate Monitoring Schools (and registered childcare providers) in England and Wales are required “to ensure children are safe from terrorist and extremist material when accessing the internet in school, including by establishing appropriate levels of filtering”. Furthermore, it expects that they “assess the risk of [their] children being drawn into terrorism, including support for extremist ideas that are part of terrorist ideology”.

Appropriate Monitoring Amongst the revisions, schools are obligated to “ensure appropriate filters and appropriate monitoring systems are in place. Children should not be able to access harmful or inappropriate material from the school or colleges IT system” However, schools will need to “be careful that ‘over blocking’ does not lead to unreasonable restrictions as to what children can be taught with regards to online teaching and safeguarding.”

Support Online self-evaluation tool https://360safe.org.uk/About-the-Tool

Understanding Ofsted Requirements Do you have an Online Safety Policy? Is the policy cross-referenced with other policies? Have you a member of staff responsible for Online Safety? Do you have an Acceptable Use policy (AUP) for pupils/staff/others? Do you consult with pupils on Online safety? Do you log Online safety incidents? Do you have a Governor with Online safety responsibility? Have all staff received training in the past 12 months? Is Online safety embedded into your curriculum? Do you survey pupils on Online safety? Have you an Online Safety section on your school website? Do you have a Data Security Policy?

How did you do? 12 – looking good  - clearly good Online Safety practices 9 - 11 – well on the way – need to develop some areas to make progress 7 - 10 – Attention – you need to address a number of areas to improve 6 or less – Emergency! – you need to develop a plan as soon as possible!

What would YOUR pupils say? Page 15 Inspectors should include online safety in their discussions with pupils and learners (covering topics such as online bullying and safe use of the internet and social media). Inspectors should investigate what the school does to educate pupils in online safety and how the provider or school deals with issues when they arise. What would YOUR pupils say?

Making Sense of the New Online Safety Standards

Working with and engaging parents Tips for Organising an Online Safety Parents’ Evening: Survey parents to establish what they are most concerned about. The response statistics can be used to illustrate the presentation Pupil surveys asking pupils questions about how they use the Internet. Share the responses their parents – which might be surprising and thought-provoking – at the Online Safety parents’ evening, or as a trigger to generate interest Consider first advertising the presentation evening and sending out surveys and questionnaires at the same time as sending out the AUP for parents and pupils to sign at the beginning of the autumn term.

Working with and engaging parents Involve the transition school for Y5 & 6 Involve the pupils – posters, plays, presentations, assemblies Food and drink! Creche? Timing What have you tried?

Latest apps and trends

How can we help? Consultancy Staff and Governor CPD Pupil workshops Parent awareness

Course topics include: Cyberbullying, Sexting, Preventing Radicalisation, Information Protection, Copyright and Legal Issues, Staff Professionalism, Inappropriate Contact, Online Grooming, Reporting Procedures, School policies, OFSTED Compliance, CPD requirements. EPICT Esafety Certificate is cited by OFSTED as a feature of Good and Outstanding Practice (Inspecting E-Safety - Briefing for Inspectors). Key features can assist your school to achieve a good or outstanding rating.

Further information https://wikis.rm.com/0000216/TEN_Centre_CPD/Online_Safety#pageFiles

Online Safety and Safeguarding Update Jo Graham jgraham@rm.com