E-Safety
- E2BN E-Safety News
- E-Safety Classroom Resources
- Useful Documents and Links
- E-Safety Inset and Parent Sessions
- E-Safeguarding Tool
- Using Facebook Safely
- Conference 2011 - You, Your Pupils, Your School
E2BN E-Safety News
October 2011
e-safety is the new qualification from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, designed to give learners the knowledge and understanding they need to protect themselves online.
This qualification will benefit all learners by giving them greater confidence in using the internet safely and it is especially suitable for delivery in schools at key stage 3 and 4.
For more information go to: http://www.bcs.org/category/14422
March 2011
CEOP Wins Awards for Educational Films
Two of CEOP’s educational films – ‘Lee and Kim’s Adventure - Animal Magic' ( launched as part of EU Safer Internet Day 2010) and ‘Exposed’ ( a new ten minute film aimed at 11-16 year olds) both won awards at the International Visual Communications Association (IVCA) on Friday 26 March 2011.
Click here for more information.
March 2011
Plymouth Council Survey
A recent study, conducted by Plymouth Council, surveyed the internet habits of 423 under-fives, with an average age of four.
It found 305 used the internet every day, often unsupervised.
Whilst the survey indicated that the most popular sites were CBeebies and Peppa Pig,Professor Tanya Byron, a clinical psychologist, said leaving a five-year-old unsupervised on the internet is equivalent to “abandoning a kid in a shopping centre for a couple of hours”.
If you work in an Early Years setting and want further information then why not take a look at:-
Plymouth's Early Years Toolkit.
November 2010
Digital Parenting Magazine Launched
An online magazine to support all those who use mobile technologies has been launched by Vodaphone.
Dr Tanya Byron's article is written from a personal and professional viewpoint and is one of many such 'Expert View' articles included in this first issue.
'Spotlight On' explains the kinds of activities a child may be engaged in and offers sound advice to help parents (and teachers) understand the benefits and pitfalls of different age groups.
Ever wanted to know how to set up 'Google Safe Search', or wondered how 'savvy' you actually are ? Take a look at p38-39 and p 32-33 respectively.
Interested?
http://asp-gb.secure-zone.net/v2/index.jsp?id=727/899/1737&lng=en
October 7th 2010
IWF Awareness Day
E2BN is a member of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK internet Hotline for the public to report their inadvertent exposure to online child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world and non-photographic child sexual abuse images, criminally obscene adult content and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.
For more information or to report a website visit www.iwf.org.uk.
September 2010
E-Safeguarding Tool
Rapidly developing information and communication technologies (ICT) are exciting and motivating learning tools through which learning and teaching can be greatly enhanced. However, the use of ICT and particularly online technologies do present schools with some serious challenges and risks.
The NEN E-Safeguarding Tool (a joint development between Central Bedfordshire, E2BN, NorthernGrid and YHGfL) is an online application that can help senior managers to ensure that ICT is used safely and responsibly and that risks related to ICT use are properly managed.
The audit considers Roles and Responsibilities and E-Safeguarding Procedures, including;
Risk Assessment
Data Classification
Access Control
Use of Systems
Password Policies
Incident Reporting
Remote Access
Technical Security
The audit assumes a non-technical audience and ideally should be carried out by the members of the school's Senior Leadership Team
Simply click on the E-Safeguarding Tool and answer each question as it is presented to you. As you answer each question the system will suggest the next steps for improving your schools E-Safeguarding procedures and where appropriate direct you to further sources of information and help. You can stop the audit at any point, save your answers and resume the audit later on. When you have completed the audit you can print out your answers along with the recommended next steps.
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July 2010
Using Facebook Safely: A Guide for Professionals Working With Young People
We know that many staff enjoy using Facebook but may find it difficult to know what settings they should choose to help keep themselves safe. Colleagues at YHGfL have produced a handy guide to help them out. This guide takes you throug some of the risks and shows you the settings you can change to help protect yourself.
July 2010
Facebook Launches New CLICKCEOP Button
Every Young Person Needs This !
If you work with children and young adults you will know that many of them use social networking sites.
This new, free application in Facebook is designed to keep young people safe while they are having fun networking online.
ClickCEOP is a new 'app' launched on Monday 12 July which links the young user directly from their Facebook profile to help, advice and reporting facilities of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection CEOP Centre - the police agency set up to tackle child abuse.
By adding the app, young people and parents can get support from CEOP on a range of issues - viruses, hacking, dealing with bullying online and they can report someone who is acting inappropriately towards them online.
Click here to read more
Teachers with a Facebook account may want to look here for guidance.
The National Education Network Safeguarding Group
Can you help with this research?
The National Education Network (NEN) Safeguarding Group is a national group concerned with your Internet safety. We (the NEN and Lancaster University) want to understand more about your experiences with the Internet, with social networking sites, and with mobile devices.
This new research, being conducted across the UK by the NEN and Lancaster University, ask you to complete a simple survey.
Answers to survey questions will be used to support the needs of the NEN and those of your school. Taking part is entirely voluntary, all survey responses remain anonymous, and no electronic links are set up if you respond.
Survey ends in December 2010.
Access the survey questions here
May 2010
Get Safe Online
This site was launched in May 2010.
Its purpose is to provide user-friendly advice that will allow teachers,parents and young people to use the internet confidently, safely and securely.
May 26th 2010
Facebook privacy settings change again!
As from today organising your privacy settings on Facebook will be easier.
Facebook made significant changes to the way privacy settings work back in December and have faced criticism from users over the complexity of the new system ever since.
The new, simpler settings will be rolled out to users this evening.
To read more about this go to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10157454.stm
To see how the amount of information about you is public by default on facebook has changed over time go to
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
March 1st 2010
OfSTED - The Safe Use of New Technologies Report
This report is based on evidence from a small-scale survey carried out between April and July 2009 in 35 maintained schools in England. It evaluates the extent to which the schools taught pupils to adopt safe and responsible practices in using new technologies, and how they achieved this. It also assesses the extent and quality of the training the schools provided for their staff. It responds to the Byron Review report, Safer children in a digital world.
February 9th 2010
Click Clever Click Safe Campaign
Launched by UKCCIS - a coalition of Government, industry and charities - to coincide with Safer Internet Day the new campaign follows publication of the first ever Internet Safety Strategy, launched in December by the Prime Minster. The campaign builds on wider work being done by a range of partners from UKCCIS, including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) who are running a range of activities to promote the safer use of the internet.
Find out more at:
http://clickcleverclicksafe.direct.gov.uk/index.html
December 2009
E-Safety Lessons to Become Compulsory
The DCSF has announced that e-safety is to become a formal part of the curriculum for all school-age learners from September 2011. Already a part of the secondary curriculum, e-safety will be compulsory in primary schools from this date. The Government expects that e-safety issues will be raised in a wide variety of relevant curriculum areas, especially in PSHEE, not just in lessons designated as 'ICT'. (PSHE stands for personal, social, health and economic education.)
This development should be a natural progression for schools as part of the safeguarding agenda. Ofsted already requires inspectors to consider internet safety and related issues within its Evaluation schedule of judgements. This states that schools should encourage learners to 'adopt safe and responsible practices and deal sensibly with risk, for example... [when] using the internet.' Schools should have policies that cover all aspects of internet safety, cyber-bullying and appropriate use of communications technologies, and these policies should be seen to be implemented.
This announcement is part of package of measures drawn up in conjunction with UKCCIS (the UK Council for Child Internet Safety), including a new campaign with the slogan 'Zip it, Block it, Flag it'.
