1. Knowsley City Learning Centres
Think U Know…?
Nancy Waine - Learning Technologies Officer: Delivery
Knowsley City Learning Centres
ASCEL ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010

2. Knowsley Children and Young People’s Strategic Plan
eSafety in Knowsley
Knowsley’s ambition is for every child and young person:
“To be safe and protected, free from fear and danger and not involved in risk taking activities”
Knowsley Children and Young People’s Strategic Plan
2007 – 2010

3. Aims Identify potential online risks
Discuss eSafety concerns and issues
Determine particular vulnerabilities facing children and young people
Signpost available resources

4. Byron Review
“Everyone has a role to play in empowering children to stay safe while they enjoy these new technologies, just as it is everyone’s responsibility to keep children safe in the non-digital world.”
BUT
“There is a digital generational divide and most adults are stranded on the wrong side!”
Professor Tanya Byron – Child Psychologist
Conducted independent review looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games
The radius of play for children has shrunk by 93% (Child of our Time – BBC4) but children still need to play, push boundaries and take risks. Their freedom has been greatly reduced in the offline world so are turning to online communities
Jim Rose published Tanya Byron’s recommendations with regard to ICT and eSafety in Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum that include:
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) – regularly updated
UKCCIS – UK Council for Child Internet Safety - established
Unites 100 organisations from public and private sector working with the government
Reports directly to the PM
Improve the regulation and education on internet use
Online bullying
Safer search facilities
Violent video gaming
Cyber proficiency testing
Cyber mentoring
Beat Bullying
Becta NGLC (Next Generation Learning Charter)
New language – sofa king great – understanding
Parental engagement

5. Adults needs to know… SweetyHigh Mom
Know what children are accessing online
Use the applications children use
Create a social networking profile
Remember to Think Before You Post

6. What are they accessing?
Discussion
What are the particular vulnerabilities that face our children and young people whilst using mobile and online communication tools ?
What are they accessing?
How do they access it?
Benefits? Dangers?

7. Benefits
Pages taken from CEOP’s parent presentation – available at

8. Risks

9. CEOP Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre based in London
combines children's charities, industry, government and other interested parties -protecting children from sexual abuse
affiliated to the Serious Organised Crime Agency although it has operational independence
CEOP will work across a number of fronts to provide:
an online presence helping to protect children in the UK when using the internet
educational support for parents and children on tips to safeguard their internet time
a focus for industry to work with law enforcement in safeguarding children as technology advances
full support to police forces and other interested parties in safeguarding children and tackling child abuse.
UK's national law enforcement agency that focuses on tackling the sexual abuse of children

10. VGT Virtual Global Taskforce to make the Internet a safer place;
to identify, locate and help children at risk; and
to hold perpetrators appropriately to account
The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) is made up of law enforcement agencies from around the world working together to fight child abuse online. The aim of the VGT is to build an effective, international partnership of law enforcement agencies that helps to protect children from online child abuse.
The VGT is made up of the Australian Federal Police, CEOP in the UK, the Italian Postal and Communication Police Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the US Department of Homeland Security and Interpol. Jim Gamble, the Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is the Chair of the VGT.
The VGT delivers low-cost, high impact initiatives that prevent and deter paedophiles from exploiting children online.

11. CEOP Reports: Overview of Key Performance Year on Year –CEOP
Indicators
Total
Children safeguarded as a result of CEOP activity 76
131
139
278
624
Arrests following the dissemination of intelligence by CEOP and CEOP resources
 83
297
334
 417
 1,131
Child protection professionals trained on CEOP courses
1,457
2,697
3,734
 3,370
11,258
High risk sex offender networks disrupted and dismantled
 29
 55
 82 96
262
Figures released November 2010

12. CEOP Reports:
Grooming is still the number one offence reported to CEOP
two thirds of public reports relate to grooming
exploiting children through integrated social networking sites is a fast-growing trend
whereas before this was done primarily via instant messaging
offenders are increasingly using peer-to-peer networks and newsgroups in order to share images of sexual abuse
rather than commercial pay-per-view sites
reinforce the benefits of internet
Grooming has existed for many years
internet is a modern media through which adults have access to children and young people
Posted by GSS on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 (Global Secure Systems)
800 secondary pupils
Questions:
Q How many colleagues have school aged children?
Q How many have access to a PC?
Q Where do they have access?
40% have “chat buddies” they do not know in real life.
half admit using peer-to-peer software (P2P) to download music illegally
20% of pupils confessed to having their computers infected by a virus after using P2P software
Half of pupils don’t secure their login with a password
Online chatting programmes were used extensively by the majority of the children in the survey, using software such as MSN, Yahoo, Facebook and Bebo.
Most of the children used this facility to catch up with friends and family outside of school hours with general chatting and file sharing being the most popular features

13. Child Exploitation and Online Protection
CEOP
Child Exploitation and Online Protection
Jigsaw

14. Personal information about Becky
Profile is open (not private) - left her front door open
Photo of her - put on a sign outside her house
School uniform - in the photos
School name - during conversation with Simon
She was going to the park after tea
this information was on her online calendar / events diary
Q What personal information was Simon able to gather from Becky’s profile and from his online chat with Becky?

15. Keep your personal information private
Know how to keep your settings private
Ask a teacher or a friend how to change settings
Be as careful online as you are offline
Don’t do anything online that you wouldn’t do in the real world
Know where to go for help
Trusted adult
Report Abuse button
IWF, Childline, There4me
Be nice to each other online
IWF - The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is the 'hotline' for the public to report potentially illegal content online. More specifically they deal with child sexual abuse content hosted worldwide, and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.
There4me - Another support service provided by the NSPCC is There 4 Me. Using this website, children can talk confidentially to NSPCC advisors online about any issues or problems they may be experiencing, using an application similar to Instant Messenger (IM).

16. CEOP Reports
624 children have been safeguarded from circumstances of horrific abuse in the last four years
278 were safeguarded in the last 12 months
1,131 suspected offenders have been arrested since the organisation was launched in April 2006
417 suspected offenders were arrested in the last year alone
New figures released Nov 10 – see table on Slide 11
2009 figures:
Within that same period that Knowsley have been developing eSafety Strategy – CEOP have reported:
346 children safeguarded
139 in last 12months
over 700 suspected offenders have been arrested
334 in last 12 months

17. CEOP Reports: dismantled or disrupted 262 offender networks since 2006
96 in the last year
5.7 million UK school children have now seen its unique ThinkUKnow education programme
6,291 reports received in the last 12 months
2,391 from the public
70% via ‘ClickCEOP’ button
on average four a day still require immediate action
See slide 11 for yearly breakdown figures inc 2010
2009 figures:
166 offender networks infiltrated
82 in last year
over 4,000,000 UK school children have seen ThinkUKnow
5,686 reports in last year
average four a day still require immediate action

18. CEOP reports - the past 12 months
417 suspected child sexual offenders arrested
for offences ranging from possession of indecent images to rape
as a result of intelligence reports from CEOP and/or through the deployment of CEOP resources
278 children have been safeguarded or protected from sexual abuse
either directly or indirectly as the result of CEOP activity

19. CEOP reports – cont...
96 high risk child sexual offender networks have been disrupted or dismantled as a result of CEOP activity
6,291 intelligence reports have been received by the CEOP Centre
a combination of reports through the public’s ‘ClickCEOP’ reporting mechanism, from the online and mobile industries and law enforcement partners in the UK and overseas.
3,370 child protection professionals have attended CEOP’s specialist training courses

20. Important Messages ‘It’s never too late to tell’
tell someone when you think an adult is behaving in an inappropriate or abusive manner
tell someone at any time no matter how long the abuse has been going on
‘Someone can help you’
there4me, Childline, police or social services
access Childline, there4me or Crime stoppers anonymously
reporting online to CEOP is the same as reporting to the police

21. Report Abuse NB
All reports from children and young people will be taken very seriously - even hoax reports!
This may involve someone from CEOP making contact or maybe even police officers visiting them
BUT - This will always be done within a confidential environment

22. Think before you post Block bullying online
NB Upload a photo online for 20 seconds…
…and it’ll stay on the internet for 20 years!

23. Emotional health, well-being and safety
Think u Know Resources
Emotional health, well-being and safety

24. And finally…
“Child protection is everybody’s business and we should afford our children the same protection online that we would give them in the park or playground”
Jim Gamble Chief Executive of the CEOP Centre and leads on Child Protection for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
Think before you post

25. ??? Questions and help www.thinkuknow.co.uk www.iwf.org.uk

26. Thank You nancy.waine@knowsley.gov.uk 0151 443 4776
Knowsley City Learning Centres: Kirkby
Rockford Avenue, Southdene, Kirkby, L32 3YE