E Safety

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E Safety

• What is your child doing?

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Somewhere in Chippenham?
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What do we need to beware of?

• What we hope to achieve is to heighten your
  awareness to the issues that face your children
• Cyber bullying
• Grooming and Online Abuse

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What can we do?

• What is the School doing?
• What can you do?

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Video on Cyber bullying?

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What is Cyber Bullying?

• "Cyber bullying is an aggressive, intentional act
  carried out by a group or individual, using
  electronic forms of contact, repeatedly over time
  against a victim who cannot easily defend him or
  herself."

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Forms of Cyber Bullying

• Text Messaging
• Picture/Video Messaging
• Phone call
• Email bullying
• Chat room bullying
• Bullying via Instant Messaging
• Bullying via web sites

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Department for schools and family
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How to recognise a victim of cyber bullying?

• Be reluctant to use the computer or electronic
  device
• Avoid discussion about what they are doing on the
  computer
• Unexpectedly quits the program when someone walks
  by
• Display unusual anger, sadness, and depression
  after using the computer

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Recognising Cyber Bullying

• Emails and Text sent with alias names

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Recognising Cyber Bullying

• Denial

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Recognising Cyber Bullying

• Deleting the evidence

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How to recognise a cyber bully?

• He or she may use numerous online accounts
• May avoid discussion or conversations regarding
  online activities
• May close or click out whatever he or she is
  doing when a person walks by
• May frequently use the computer, especially at
  night

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Summary and actions

• Educate ourselves so if spoken to we can help
• Encourage our children to log any incidents
• Dont reply to emails or IM (dont give the bully
  the audience they want)
• Relay your information to the school (Learning
  Managers or Tutors)

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• Grooming and Online abuse

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Grooming and Online Abuse
Run Video
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Young people online

• Survey of 11 - 14 year olds (source Ofcom)
• 41 regularly use the internet
• 32 regularly use a mobile phone
• 56 play computer games
• 7 of 10 year olds have a web cam

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Child Grooming

• CEOP -Child Exploitation and Online Protection
  Centre

"A course of conduct enacted by a suspected
paedophile, which would give a reasonable person
cause for concern that any meeting with a child
arising from the conduct would be for unlawful
purposes."
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What does Grooming entail?

• Groomers will try to single individuals
• They will try to build trust or friendships
• They seek out personal information which they use
  to their advantage
• Personal information such as favourite bands,
  music, films etc allows them to buy and offer
  gifts

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What does Grooming entail?

• Blackmail -
• Groomers often obtain images via web cams or are
  told secrets which they use to blackmail
• Guilt
• Showering young children with gifts
• Emotional blackmail
• I thought you were my special friend

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Where does it take place?

• Blogs
• Forums
• Instant Messenger
• Typical scenario things are not quite what they
  seem?

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2D Visual Chat
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The next level
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3D Chat room
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Peer to Peer File Sharing

• Here is a list of some of the more popular
  file-sharing programs. You may want to look to
  see if any of these are installed on your
  computer.

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Prevention

• Netwise offers a whole range of preventative
  tools ranging from...
• Filters for sexually explicit material and images
  
• Software to allow you to monitor online
  activities
• Software that limits time online
• Browsers for kids
• Blocks for your kids personal information

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Prevention

• Netwise offers a whole range of preventative
  tools ranging from...
• Filters for sexually explicit material and images
  
• Software to allow you to monitor online
  activities
• Software that limits time online
• Browsers for kids
• Blocks for your kids personal information

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Schools Acceptable Usage Policy

• SWGfL provides the school with its broadband
  connection
• The policy has been drawn up in conjunction with
  the Police Force
• It has strict policies/filters which prohibits
  access to unsuitable material such as
  pornography, discrimination and promoting illegal
  acts (plus many more)

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Monitoring

• The school monitors email and internet content
• Misuse of these facilities will lead to
  withdrawal
• Promotes a code of practice in students diaries
• Follows up complaints made by either students,
  teachers or parents

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What you can do

• Be vigilant and report and behaviour that
  concerns you
• Make sure you and your son/daughter have read and
  signed the Email/Internet Code of Practice
• Monitor your son/daughters online use
• Visit the CEOP website and report abuse
• http//www.ceop.gov.uk/

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Conclusion

• Cyber bullying and grooming are a world wide
  problem therefore they are happening in
  Chippenham!
• Contact
• tfc_at_hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk

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Bibliography

• Cyber bullying
• Slide 2 video Joe
• http//www.digizen.org/cyberbullying/fullFilm.aspx
  
• http//internet.suite101.com/article.cfm/cyber_bul
  lyingthe_warning_signs