Ruth Bourne

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Ruth Bourne

• Principal Adviser,
• Strategic e-learning Services

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Todays Objectives

• The national agenda and support Becta, CEOP
• Sandwell developments, perspectives and next
  steps.

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e-safety in Sandwell

• Sandwell Local Authority recognises the many
  positive social and educational benefits to
  children and young people.

• The LA also recognises the associated risks and
  continues to provide information and guidance to
  schools to help manage and minimise them.

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Whose problem?

• A primary school pupil had set up a mini web-site
  to share photographs and information with friends
  and family, and communicate through a simple
  chat room. To invite others to their site,
  detailed address information is given by the
  child and / or family, and the sites are believed
  to be secure. There were concerns about what
  personal details were on the site and potential
  for access by wider public, making the child
  vulnerable to grooming or other approaches. The
  child had not set up the site in school, but the
  school was the first port of call for the parent.

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Challenges/Opportunities?

• Children are digital natives
• They are connected
• They are publishing online
• They carry technology with them

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e-safety in Sandwell

• Responding to changing contexts
• Content, Contact, Commerce, Culture
• Information sharing and Data protection
• Safeguarding Board
• Policy Review and consultation
• WMNet http//www.wmnet.org.uk

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Local Guidance
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E-safety Next Steps

• Professional Development across the integrated
  childrens workforce
• Developing inter-agency working on e-safety
  through the Safeguarding Boards training group
• Get the balance right

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Development
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Development (2)
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Enabling Learners
Maintaining a sensible degree of external
security is fine, as long as this does not stop
people from doing the basics, such as consuming
web services or linking with the outside world.
But inside the network, experimentation and
innovation should be encouraged. Anything less
runs the risk of turning educational IT into an
irrelevant backwater that is far below the
expectations of young people that they simply do
their learning elsewhere. Emerging Technologies
for Learning Volume 2 (2007), Becta
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Building Schools for the Future

• We will provide learning experiences that enable
  young people to lead safe life styles. This means
  enabling them to recognise and reject harmful
  activities and situations, while giving them the
  confidence to experience challenging and
  enriching activities.
• Sandwell BSF Education Vision

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e-mature learners