1. A guide for parents and carers on E-Safety
Shipton Bellinger Primary School

2. The Internet…. Wide and flexible range of information
Accessed anywhere anytime
A key skill for life
Easy to communicate with friends and family
Motivational and fun
Raise standards

3. What is E-Safety?
‘All users of ICT should be able to do so safely and responsibly without limiting their creativity’

4. The Internet and Technology
We all know that IT has a fantastic amount of good uses
It is about having the knowledge of these ‘hazards’
As a school we have a duty of care

5. Why is E-Safety so important?
Young people can be very tech savvy
Young people do not necessarily have experience to judge risk
The digital world can seem as important as the real world

6. Why is it so important?

7. Risks?
28% of year olds have had an upsetting experience on Social
Networking sites, that’s over 1 in 4.
(CEOP strategic overview 2013/2014)
27% of children talk about more private things online than face to face
High amount of offences of a sexual nature against children recorded
(EU kids online II)

8. Main risks of online use
Cyber-bullying
Harmful content/illegal materials
Privacy/digital footprints
Unwanted contact/grooming
The risks to children and young people can be identified in the following four categories:
· Unwanted contact/grooming – this is where adults proactively coerce children to groom them on and offline
· Cyberbullying – bullying between young people and adults
· Harmful content/illegal material – things that children and you people see and sometimes produce that maybe harmful
· Privacy/digital footprints – what they say, post and write online and the ‘digital footprint this leaves

9. Unwanted contact and grooming
Specific goals include gaining access to the child, gaining the child’s compliance and maintaining the child’s secrecy to avoid disclosure
Techniques: Bribery and gifts, Flattery, games, Threats, and many more
(Craven, Brrown and Gilchrist, 2006)

10. Cyber-bullying How: Definition of cyber-bullying:
‘The use of digital technology (text messaging, , social networking sites etc) to bully, harass or abuse someone.’
(DfE 2009)
How:
Mobiles
Social networking sites
Gaming
Forums
Sexting

11. Cyber-bullying Traits
It is an invasion of personal space
The audience can be large and reached quickly
It is easier for perpetrators to remain anonymous or pretend to be someone else
The target of bullying can be anyone
Often young people who engage in cyber-bullying get involved in an
unintentional way.
They are removed from the face to face so do not have a connection
If you go online, you leave a trail therefore can be tracked

12. Children and parents use the internet in different ways
Parents / Carers
Consume, download, corporate
Shopping
Booking holidays
Research
Young people
Create, upload, personal
Music
Games
Chat
Instant Messaging IM
Blogs
Social Networking

13. At School……. At home…………
Supervised ?
Monitored ?
Filtered ?
Curriculum ?

14. What does the school do? E-safety lessons are delivered to every class
Various tasks and activities completed depending on the age group
Promote the positive aspects of technology.
E-Safety/Acceptable use policy
Staff training
Parents information

15. Education response 5 - 7 year olds
3% own a Smartphone 67% have home internet access 7.2 hours online in a typical week 23% use a social networking site weekly 3 hours amount of time 7-16-year-olds spend online each day 4.8 hours time year-olds spend online Source: Childwise Monitor report 2016
(Ofcom media literacy 2013)
Intro slide

16. Education response 8-10 year olds
18% own a Smartphone 82% have home internet access 10.5 hours online in a typical week 24% have a profile on sites that require users to be 13 or over 85% of those with a SNS profile say it can only be seen by friends 22% speak to friends of friends or people they don’t know 67% who use internet at home only visit sites they’ve been to before 12% agree ‘when I’m on the internet, I forget about all of the rules’ (Ofcom media literacy October 2013)
Intro 8-10’s

17. Questions to think about
Do your children have access to a computer or tablet at home with internet access
Do they have their own computer or tablet in their room?
What do they like doing the most online?
Youtube: Playing games: Web browsing:
Social networking (Twitter, Facebook): ing:

18. Questions to think about
What social networking sites do they use (If applicable)?
Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: Snapchat:
Do they have a mobile phone that can connect to the internet?
Do they use social networking sites or instant messaging on your phone?
Do they have a games console (PS4/ Xbox) with access to the internet?

19. DO YOU?.... Monitor how your children use the internet at home?
Have any filtering systems that sometimes block the searches you make?
Ask children if they have ever seen anything unsuitable, or anything which made them feel uncomfortable while they have been online?
Ask children if they have ever communicated online with someone they didn’t know?

20. age limits

21. Working together Be involved with your child’s online life
Be familiar with the technology, built in safeguards
Agree the types of content that are acceptable to upload and download.
Encourage balanced use, limit time, meal times, bed time…
Agreed areas in the house to use online devices.

22. What to do if you are worried…
Capture any evidence
Screenshots, save conversations
Report it
School, Service Provider, Police, CEOP(Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)
Use the safety features and tools
Child Accounts, Parental controls, Privacy features in Social Networking
Be alert
Changes in behaviour, secretive, vague about use

23. Report to...... Report to Support from
CEOP offers direct advice and support to professionals and directly to young people and it also offers the a reporting system. Young people, parents, carers and professionals can report concerns about potential grooming,child sex offender activity and online sexual contact with children and young people directly to CEOP by clicking on the ‘CEOP Report button’. Young people over 11 should be encouraged to report to CEOP if anyone is making them feel uncomfortable online, this may be pressurising them to meet up, sexual chat or sharing sexual images. The key is if someone is making them feel uncomfortable or unsafe online in this way they should report to CEOP.Though CEOP takes reports from children of any age, children under 11 should be encouraged to speak to an adult they trust who can help them fill out the CEOP reporting form. NSPCC’s Childline allows young people to access direct support from a counsellor; Beatbullying’s cybermentors offers advice to children and young people on bullying, cyberbullying and other well being issues. Young people can access trained mentors of their own age for support and advice through The internet watch foundation is the UK’s hotline for reporting child abuse images online.. Children and young people should be encouraged to report to the appropriate place and if they are in severe danger they should call 999.
Support from

24. Key messages – summary
Know who you’re talking to, people aren’t always who they say they are
Learn how to use and set security settings across a range of devices
Keep your personal information private
Know how to report on sites and services you are using
Implications of owning a mobile / location
Understand digital footprint:
Self-taken images and video
Location-based
Future implications of actions of online behaviour
How to report to sites
CEOP

25. www.thinkuknow.com http://www.childnet-int.org/
E-Safety - resources

26. Any Questions?