Safeguarding Children Online

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Safeguarding Children Online

• e-Safety Awareness and Kents Journey
• Rebecca Avery E-Safety Officer, Kent County
  Council

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Why are we here?
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What is e-Safety?

• E-Safety is concerned with safeguarding children
  and young people in the digital world
• E-safety is not about restricting children, but
  educating them about the risks as well as the
  benefits so they can feel confident and happy
  online
• It is about being educated ourselves to be able
  to support and help young people
• Digital Divide Digital Natives vs Digital
  Immigrants

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How much do you know?

• What is IM?
• What does F2Fmean?
• What does ASL mean?
• How old should you be to have a bebo account?
• What does POS mean?
• Can it be a criminal offence to send someone a
  threatening message?
• 1 in ? children have met someone face to face
  that they met online?

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How do we use the internet?

• Benefits
• Access to Global information
• Educational Resources
• Entertainment, games and fun!
• Communication with friends/family
• User generated content production
• Personal/Social/Health advice
• Networking and friendships Sense of Community
• Privacy for expression of Identity
• Accessible
• Develops Key skills
• Communication
• Collaboration

• Risks
• Content
• Contact
• Conduct

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Byron Review The Risks
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Experiences of Children and Young People

• 80 of 5-16 year olds have internet access at
  home
• 50 have broadband
• 93 have a PC at home one-third have their own
  PC
• 80 have their own TV and 70 have their own
  DVD player
• Almost 60 have their own MP3 player
• Two-thirds own a mobile phone

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The Online World is the Childs World!
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What can we find out from a Social Networking
account...
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Cyberbullying

• What is Cyberbullying?
• "Cyberbullying" is the use of Information
  Communication Technology (ICT) particularly
  mobile phones and the internet, to deliberately
  upset someone.
• DCFS 2007
• What makes Cyberbullying different?
• Impact
• Location
• Anonymity
• Target and Perpetrators
• Motivation
• Evidence

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Kents Context

• One of the largest Local Authorities in the UK
• Population of 327,000 children and young people
• Mix of rural and urban areas, affluence and
  deprivation
• 603 educational establishments including 33
  Grammar Schools

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Mark Bedford

• Mark Bedford, aka Supalover666, aged 21 from
  Ontario, Canada
• Canadian police inquiry involving Kent Police
  which began after the computers of 42 girls aged
  between 9 and 14 were hacked into
• Subsequently sentenced for 3 years imprisonment

Whos this?
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E-Safety in Kent

• e-Safety Strategy group
• e-Safety Officer
• e-Safety Conferences

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Kent and CEOP

• Piloted CEOP education programme Thinkuknow for
  children and young people in 2006
• Rolled out to
• All 105 Secondary Schools
• Youth Workers repeat this year
• All Kent Police Safer Schools Partnership
  Coordinators
• Kent Libraries Families Services Team
• TUK training is on the Kent Safeguarding Children
  Board Training Calendar
• Primary Training being developed by Advisory
  Service and e-Safety Officer

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Parental Awareness

• Staff Training to those who support parents
  across agencies
• Training to Foster Carers
• Schools
• Parents evenings by e-Safety officer
• working with young people to present to parents
• Encouraging schools to tie in with other events
• Delivery to offices and workplaces
• Leaflets

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Joint working with Kent Police

• Kent Police Posters
• Joint Training
• Be Safe e-Safe DVD

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• Everything that's already in the world when
  you're born is just normal
• Anything that gets invented between then and
  before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and
  creative and with any luck you can make a career
  out of it
• Anything that gets invented after you're
  thirty is against the natural order of things and
  the beginning of the end of civilization as we
  know it until it's been around for about ten
  years when it gradually turns out to be alright
  really
• Douglas Adams

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What can we do?

• Be aware
• e-Safety is a safeguarding, not technology issue
• Safeguarding children is everyones
  responsibility
• Protecting children whilst they are in our care
  and educating them for when they are not

• Schools could
• Have an e-Safety Policy and a designated e-Safety
  Officer/coordinator
• Teach e-Safety across the curriculum ICT, PSHE,
  English, History etc and as an ongoing topic from
  KS1 onwards
• Involve and engage with the home where possible!
• Have AUP/Code of Conduct to protect staff and
  pupils
• Educate all staff and ensure they are aware of
  policies and procedures and update annually
• Consider what support there is for staff in the
  event of a disclosure (e-Safety and
  Cyberbullying) and ensure there is a clear
  reporting mechanism/flowchart

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Useful Resources

• www.thinkuknow.co.uk
• Hectors World 5 7
• CyberCafe 8 10
• ThinkuKnow 11-16
• Parent/Carer
• Teacher/Trainer

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www.childnet.com
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Bectawww.becta.org.uk/safeguarding.php
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www.bbc.co.uk/chatguide
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http//en.teachtoday.eu
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www.digizen.org/cyberbullying

• Lets fight it together Classroom materials
• Interactive game
• Laugh at it, youre part of it
• guidance for dealing with Cyberbullying for
  Schools Safe to learn
• Full Guidance
• Summary
• Supporting School Staff

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www.cybermentors.org.uk
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Kent Resources

• www.kent.police.uk/internetsafety
• www.kenttrustweb.org.uk?esafety
• www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/ict/safety
• www.kscb.org.uk

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Thank you and questionsRebecca Avery
esafetyofficer_at_kent.gov.uk