As a handy reference, here are some UK based helplines and contact details for organisations dealing with online safety.
Here you can make a report to CEOP about a child in danger of abuse. This could be you or someone you know or care for. You can see what we are going to ask you by looking at the titles above this message.
We are the UK Hotline for reporting criminal online content and work with ...
A short time ago I was asked to write an Action Plan for a school that is allowing students to bring in and use their own ICT devices, whether that be a laptop, smartphone, or pretty much anything else that can access the internet.
In this context, the Action Plan was raised in order to address the e-safety governance in the school. In other words: is the AUP up to date? Does it identify all the risks? Are the senior leadership ...
Continue Reading →In previous posts I have talked about an e-Safety Toolbox. Only by the effective use of all these tools you will be able to mitigate against online safety safeguarding risks.
Isn’t marketing wonderful? A sarcastic comment perhaps but quite frankly marketing is sometimes quite misleading; it is just a sales tool. Time and time again I see a marketing phrase along the lines of “…..our internet filter is your e-safety solution”, and that is very misleading.
A solution ...
Continue Reading →e-Safety is a vital set of tools primarily to protect children from harmful content and to empower children with the knowledge to stay safe whilst using digital technologies. So it comes as a surprise and a disappointment to see that the Department for Education are no longer accrediting online safety content management filters.
In their day, Becta did a magnificent job of ...
Continue Reading →In this post I refer to the beat bobby: not online crime investigators, high tech crime units, serious and organised crime or any other specialised unit. The everyday Police officer that we all see racing around the streets on blues and twos. For simplicity this also refers Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPT) and to Police Community Support Officers (PCSO)
You may well ask, “what has online safety got to do with the ordinary beat bobby?” A lot more than you may think. ...
Continue Reading →Online safety goes from strength to strength with some great initiatives coming out. One of these initiatives was launched on 7th Feb 2012, Safer Internet Day, known as the eSafety Label.
This is an online safety support and accreditation system for schools throughout Europe.
The idea behind this is great, and has been a long time in coming: with young people carrying ...
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