eSafety in the Y

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eSafety in the Y H Region

• Andy Brookes, eSafety Manager

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Andy who? YHGfL what?
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Regional Broadband Consortia
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YHGfL Services

• Provide support for 12 regional authorities
• Filtered Internet access to around 670 schools,
  with raw Internet feeds and email provision
  across other authorities
• Provide additional services such as video
  conferencing, blogging and podcasting network
  monitoring access to licenced and free
  resources eLearning and technical support and
  advice

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Safeguarding Children in a Digital World

• Lets Not Forget the Goal!

'using a combined approach of policies and
procedures, infrastructure and education,
together with rigorous standards and
inspection, to ensure our young people make safe
and appropriate use of all fixed and mobile
technologies which allow access to content and
communications that could pose risks to their
wellbeing and safety'
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Safeguarding Children in a Digital World
ensure our young people make safe and
appropriate use of all fixed and mobile
technologies
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Social Networking Sites
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Social Networking Issues
77 of secondary schools have experienced issues
with SNS
source UK Schools Experience of SNS,
SWGfL/BECTa/NEN draft, 2008
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Social Networking Issues
Usually schools are dealing with pupil use of SNS
at home, issues from which spill over into the
classroom
source UK Schools Experience of SNS,
SWGfL/BECTa/NEN draft, 2008
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Social Networking Issues
Bullying is the number one issue with SNS,
followed by inappropriate language, then
inappropriate content.
source UK Schools Experience of SNS,
SWGfL/BECTa/NEN draft, 2008
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Social Networking Issues
For primary schools in the NE of England, all
issues concerned pupil use of Piczo. Other
regions reported issues with Bebo and other
profile-based SNS
source UK Schools Experience of SNS,
SWGfL/BECTa/NEN draft, 2008
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Social Networking Issues
Of the schools reporting issues, a third have
experienced problems with pupils publishing
allegations or derogatory comments about staff,
peaking in the NE of England
source UK Schools Experience of SNS,
SWGfL/BECTa/NEN draft, 2008
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Introducing Jordan
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So how can YHGfL help?
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Contact
andy.brookes_at_yhgfl.net
www.yhgfl.net