Internet Safety Parents / Carers Evening Gairloch High School

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Internet SafetyParents / Carers
EveningGairloch High School
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Partnership Working in Highland..
..Getting It Right For Every Child - Everywhere
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Tonightin Gairloch High School

• Sweet 16! How the internet has come of age!
• What are the benefits for us all?
• What are the dangers for us all?
• What a some of the key issues for young people?
• Planned programmes in Highland schools
• What you can do to help safeguard your children
• Further links and open question time

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The Scotsman
Coming of Age - Web 2.0 In a dizzying,
energising and raucous return to the
pamphleteering days of the 18th and 19th
centuries, the people have, through the worldwide
web and easy-to-use publishing software, been
given a voice They will not easily be silenced.
Source The Scotsman Exposing the Exclusive 16th
September 2004
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Facts and Figures - September 2007

• 93 of children use a computer and a phone
• 8 out of 10 teenagers have a PC, mobile phone and
  a game.
• 1,400,000 UK pupils have their own web space
• There are 200 million registered users of Myspace
• There are 2.7 billion searches on Google each
  month
• The number of text messages sent every day
  exceeds the population of the planet!
• More than ever before people use the internet as
  part of their daily life.

Source www.schoolzone.co.uk www.1ps.k12.co.us
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Benefits of the Internet

• What do you think the benefits are?
• Keeping in touch with friends / family old and
  new
• Learning, researching and self-expression
• Vital information sometimes inaccessible in rural
  areas
• Homework! Learning collaboratively
• Keeping up with perspectives on the news, global
  events
• Commercial opportunities
• Games, hobbies, leisure and belonging
• Quickness of communication, emails.
• SHOPPING! Music!

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Why the need for safety?

• What do you think are the biggest risks?
• Commercial risks Fraud, viruses and Phishing
• Content risks where has information come from?
• Personal safety and security - meeting people
• Psychological harm through bullying and ridicule
• Peer preference, seeking relationships
• Future risks, it may come back to bite you!
• Increasing mobile technology

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School, Home and Mobile Access
School / Library / Community Facilities Fixed
location, possibly laptops / WiFi. School
filtering policies aim to create a safer
environment, they also tend to be supervised.
Information about How to keep safe provided.
School policies and procedures in place.
Home Fixed location, possibly laptops/WiFi. May
not have filtering programmes in place,
especially internet landline phones, gaming
consoles, even the satellite television viewing
box.
Mobile Increasing access with 3G coverage, mobile
phones with no levels of filtering and increased
privacy in use. Costs are coming down with free
texts deals and Internet access with instant
Messenger, Bluetooth.
Educating Young People no matter where they are
accessing the internet
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Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP)
Source CEOP Corporate Video
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Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
(CEOP)

• Harm Reduction Education, training courses and
  public awareness, international, child
  trafficking Safer by design.
• Intelligence Referrals desk, Assessment,
  Disseminations, Offender Management, Travelling
  Offenders, Missing Offenders.
• Operations Forensics Unit, Joint
  investigations, Financial desk, Covert
  capability, Victim identification.

Source Virtual Global Taskforce
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ThinkUKnow?
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Key issues

Friends or Frenemies?
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Key issues

Real or Virtual?
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Spokeo

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Ensuring Young People know how to report concerns

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Signs of normal teenage behaviour or more?

• Secretive behaviour, spending hours online but
  switching off the screen whenever another adult
  is within sight
• Changes in behaviour, feelings of elation or
  upset after spending time on the internet
• Excessive anger or frustration at not being able
  to access the internet at certain times
• Change in use of appearance for using webcams,
  dressing or looking older
• Sudden change in language sexual nature

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What can parents do?

• Keep communication open, what sites interest
  them, sharing favourite sites for information and
  shopping. Remember the benefits above all else.
• Ask them to explain to you how new sites work,
  they have grown up with the internet!
• Keep a family email address for use to sign up to
  sites rather than their own. Remind them of
  giving out personal details.
• Keep a spam filter for emails, remind them of
  special offer or prize emails. If it looks too
  good to be true it usually is! Question any
  unsolicited mail.

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What can parents do?

• Keep a family PC in a safer location, laptops and
  wireless are much more common nowadays. Apply
  control settings and virus tools. Set your own
  ground-rules for using webcams
• Why not have a family understanding about
  personal information about self and others
• Illegally downloading from sites is not only
  breaking the law, it can lead to accessing files
  contain unpleasant unexpected pictures.
• Remind children if they want to meet someone
  offline, NEVER go without a trusted adult.
• Its never too late to report something and
  no-one will judge your child or you.

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Useful links and Resources

• www.thinkuknow.co.uk (parents section)
• www.childnet-int.org (special parents section
  leaflets for download) (CD resource for schools)
• www.forhighlandschildren.org
• www.ssf-project.org.uk
• www.protectinghighlandschildren.org
• www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk
• www.youngpeoplesafeonline.com
• www.getnetwise.com
• Check your school website and speak to school
  staff

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Balancing the internet

Thank you Louise Jim