Safeguarding children online What does ‘good’ look like? Title slide of presentation.

Outline 13.45 – 14.45 Latest trends Latest policy The flyer exercise – defining ‘good’ ? PIES – the underpinning model SRF plans

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Why do schools need to take action? Schools have a duty of care Ofsted Self Evaluation Form they are able to safeguard children, young people and staff. In most cases, the misuse of ICT is not serious and can be dealt with at classroom level. In rare cases children can be in serious danger. Staff are also susceptible to risks, as is the integrity of the whole school community. • The Ofsted self-evaluation form (SEF) includes a new prompt specifically relating to e-safety. Question 4b reads: To what extent do learners feel safe and adopt safe practices? in a range of activities within and outside the classroom, including the use of new technologies and the internet. Ofsted conducted an initial small-scale study of 100 self-evaluation forms in the summer of 2008 -a key finding was that around half of all schools surveyed failed to make any form of response on e-safety in their SEF, and a further quarter made only passing reference to it. Of the schools that did respond, the study found that there was considerable variation in how schools monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of their e-safety policies. A significant proportion of schools do not indicate how they know whether their policies are effective or not in ensuring learners’ e-safety. Ofsted’s focus on e-safety will continue as the recommendations from the Byron Review are further implemented. All schools will need to actively monitor the impact of their e-safety policies and provide a comprehensive response to the SEF. to the SEF. The Byron Review “...in all schools action is taken at a whole-school level to ensure that e-safety is mainstreamed throughout the school’s teaching, learning and other practices. In particular I recommend that: Government should encourage schools to use Becta’s self-review framework to drive continual improvement in schools’ use of ICT including with regard to e-safety. 100% of schools should have AUPs that are regularly reviewed, monitored and agreed with parents and students. Guidance on this should be incorporated in Becta’s revised self-review framework.” Protecting children whilst they are in our care and educating them for when they are not! e-safety is a child safety – not an ICT – issue!

Byron recommended Ofsted provide the Government with a snapshot report on school responses to question 4b of the SEF (regarding e-safety) by summer 2008. Snapshot showed… Ofsted conducted a small-scale study of 100 self-evaluation forms of schools that were being inspected in the summer term 2008. The study found considerable variation in how schools monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of their e-safety policies. A considerable proportion of schools do not indicate how they know whether their policies are effective or not in ensuring learners’ e-safety. the proportion of schools providing sufficient evidence of their strategies for ensuring e-safety was low, especially in primary schools. In secondary schools, the results were slightly better, with over a third offering a comprehensive and thoughtful response to the question. However, it was still the case that almost half made no comment at all.

The importance of ICT: information and communication technology in primary and secondary schools 2005/8 [03/03/09 ] The very great majority of the schools visited taught their pupils and students about the risks associated with using the internet. However, very few of the schools evaluated the effectiveness of this teaching and very few had recorded the incidents they had dealt with where students’ safety had been compromised. The recommendations from the report are: All schools should: evaluate the effectiveness of their provision for teaching pupils and students how to keep themselves safe when online and record incidents where the safety of individuals may be compromised

Government response to Lord Laming Review 32. Ofsted have also designed the new school inspection framework which will apply from September 2009 so that it will have a stronger focus on safeguarding. The current inspection framework already includes a judgement about whether safeguarding arrangements in schools are satisfactory but this will be strengthened in the new framework with a grading on a scale from 1(outstanding) to 4(inadequate) for a school's safeguarding arrangements. Any school which receives a grade of 4 will also be likely to be awarded an inadequate grade for its overall performance and will need therefore to make urgent improvements. These arrangements will 'raise the bar' about the importance of safeguarding for schools and will also facilitate the identification and dissemination of best practice. On 12 March, Lord Laming published his report The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report. The Government accepted all of his recommendations and has now published an action plan, setting out its detailed response.   http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/DCSF-Laming.pdf The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families has written to schools to highlight the importance of this action plan and of the role that teachers and other staff have in keeping children safe from abuse.

Is your school e-safe? Does your school… have a nominated e-safety co-ordinator? audit its e-safety measures? audit its e-safety measures? www.nen.gov.uk/esafety have a robust AUP? www.becta.org.uk/publications/aupsincontext use a Becta accredited supplier for internet services? www.becta.org.uk/schools/accreditedinternetsuppliers handle cyberbullying issues well? See www.digizen.org/cyberbullying www.teachernet.gov.uk e.g. through holding an assembly? www.thinkuknow.co.uk/teachers have a robust AUP? use a Becta accredited supplier for internet services? include e-safety measures in Section 4b of your SEF? keep an incident log and monitor your measures? handle cyberbullying issues well? raise awareness of the issues, e.g. through holding an assembly?

Is your school e-safe? Do all your staff… understand e-safety issues and risks? receive regular training and updates? receive regular training and updates? www.childnet.com/kia www.thinkuknow.co.uk/teachers www.becta.org.uk/schools/communities/safetynet know how to keep data safe and secure? www.becta.org.uk/schools/datasecurity know how to protect themselves online www.teachernet.gov.uk www.teachtoday.eu professionally online? www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/resources-and-practice/IG00311 know about the updated e-safety guidance for QTS standard Q21: Health and well-being? www.tda.gov.uk/partners/ittstandards/guidance_08/qts.aspx QTS standards and guidance - update   TDA have updated the guidance on the QTS standards trainee teachers need to achieve. We have updated the relevant QTS standard - Health and Well-Being (below), in order to include e-safety within the guidance. Q21 Know how to identify and support children and young people whose progress, development or well-being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances, and when to refer them to colleagues for specialist support. know how to escalate an issue of concern? know how to keep data safe and secure? know how to protect themselves online know how to conduct themselves professionally online? know about the updated e-safety guidance for QTS standard Q21: Health and well-being?

Is your school e-safe? Do your learners… understand what safe and responsible online behaviour means? receive e-safety education at appropriate places across the curriculum? places across the curriculum? www.becta.org.uk/publications www.kidsmart.org.uk www.thinkuknow.co.uk/publications know the SMART rules? www.childnet.com SAFE: Keep safe by being careful not to give out personal information – such as your name, email, phone number, home address, or school name – to people who you don’t trust online. MEETING: Meeting someone you have only been in touch with online can be dangerous. Only do so with your parents’ or carers’ permission and even then only when they can be present. ACCEPTING: Accepting emails, IM messages, or opening files, pictures or texts from people you don’t know or trust can lead to problems – they may contain viruses or nasty messages! RELIABLE: Someone online may be lying about who they are, and information you find on the internet may not be reliable. TELL: Tell your parent, carer or a trusted adult if someone or something makes you feel uncomfortable or worried. You can report online abuse to the police at: www.thinkuknow.co.uk. they may have? www.ceop.gov.uk/reportabuse/index.asp get the opportunity to improve their digital literacy skills? know the SMART rules? know how to report any concerns they may have?

Is your school e-safe? If not, why not! Take action now Do your parents and governors… understand e-safety issues and risks? understand their roles and responsibilities? understand e-safety issues and risks? www.nga.org.uk/uploadfiles/documents/NGA-Becta%20Sept.pdf receive regular training and updates? www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents children in the home? www.childnet.com/kia www.direct.gov.uk receive regular training and updates? understand how to protect their children in the home? If not, why not! Take action now

What does acceptable use look like in your school? Does it… reflect your setting and cover all users? have end-user input? promote positive uses of new and emerging technologies? clearly outline what network monitoring will take place? clearly outline acceptable and unacceptable behaviours when using technology and network resources provided by the school both on or offsite, or when using personal technologies on school premises or networks? reflect your setting and cover all users?

What does acceptable use look like in your school? Is it… clear and concise? written in a tone and style that is appropriate to the end-user? regularly reviewed and updated? widely, & regularly, communicated to all stakeholder groups? Where can I find good examples? Look to your local authority and/or Regional Broadband Consortium for local policies.

What should ‘good’ schools be doing? What should your school be doing? Becta and other partner bodies have been developing advice and guidance on the issue of e-safety since 2000. Working with schools, teachers, young people, local authorities and Government, we have developed a model of support that can help to manage the level of risk. We believe that if you have the following PIES structure in place the e-safety risk can be effectively managed. Policies and practice Does the school have a set of robust policies and practices? Do you have an acceptable use policy (AUP)? Is everyone aware of it? Does your anti-bullying policy include references to cyberbullying? Are there effective sanctions for breaching the policy in place? Have you appointed an e-safety co-ordinator? Infrastructure Is the school network safe and secure? Do you use an accredited internet service provider? Do you use a filtering/monitoring product? Education and training Do children receive e-safety education - where, how? Are staff – including support staff – trained? Do you have a single point of contact in the school? Do the leadership team and school governors have adequate awareness of the issue of e-safety? Standards and inspection Have you conducted an audit of your school’s e-safety measures? Do you monitor, review and evaluate all of the above?

The filtering debate “ Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe – this isn’t just about a top-down approach. Children will be children – pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim.” Dr Tanya Byron Safer children in a digital world: The report of the Byron Review

Fisher-Price's Easy-Link Internet Launchpad, a keyboard-free console for the 3-and-older crowd. When toddlers stick a figurine into its appropriate console slot, they are whisked directly to the character's official website,

‘Who wrote this and why?’ Schools must tackle media literacy: ‘Who wrote this and why?’

Data Protection

Are you prepared for the following? Parental query: staff using own ICT devices to capture pictures or contact pupils (legitimately!!) Staff personal online profiles revealing personal details to all – including pupils and their parents! Staff subject to cyberbullying attacks by pupils ‘Their partner downloaded porn on the school’s laptop’ - primary head teacher ‘The monitoring software recorded tens of thousands of violations in a two week period’ - secondary head teacher ‘There’s a website created by my pupils listing children no one likes and their parents are telling me to do something about it’ - primary head teacher ‘The children use their mobile phones to send porn via bluetooth’ - primary head teacher

Reaching parents…….. One parent told me that she thought the whole issue of e-safety to be overblown and irrelevant. She went on to tell me that she has a teenage daughter who has a computer in her room. The mum said “I KNOW I have no e-safety problems in my home. I always check my daughter’s internet browsing history thingy [sic]. IT’s ALWAYS EMPTY”

‘AUPs in context: Establishing safe and responsible online behaviours’ This document provides a number of prompts and action points to help schools and other children’s settings develop effective AUPs within their local context and framework of wider e-safety measures. Available free to order or download from http://www.becta.org.uk/publications/aupsincontext

What should schools/organisations be doing? Be alert to the possibilities! Provide: - Policies and procedures - Infrastructure Education for staff, parents, students Standards and inspection Update the School Self Evaluation Form Conduct an audit and visit the Self Review Framework Appoint an esafety co-ordinator Liaise with your Local Safeguarding Children Board SEF: Personal development and well-being  section 3a -          the extent to which information and communication technology (ICT) capability and other key skills enable learners to improve the quality of their work and make progress 4b -          the extent to which learners adopt safe and responsible practices in using new technologies, including the Internet. 4e -          through the development of literacy, numeracy, information and communication technology, enterprise capability, economic and business understanding and financial capability

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