e-Safety quite often concentrates on risks and behaviours, but if you really want to know about e-safety it is a good idea to step out of the box now and again and take a more holistic view of technology and the Internet.

Have a search on various social networking sites and see how students are finding e-safety lessons incredibly boring; using the same old videos and resources over and over again (don’t do this, you can’t do that) is creating a ...

The Ofsted e-Safety Inspection Framework makes reference to data on PC’s, laptops etc. being encrypted.  This ties in with the Data Protection requirement to keep personal data safe and secure.  Not only is the loss of personal data a potential safeguarding issue, the ICO is free to punish (financially) for data breaches.

What is personal data?  If you want to read the ICO’s horrendously complicated definition you can see it Continue Reading →

What has e-safety got to do with flapjacks?  Not a lot really, it’s an analogy.

According to news reports today a school is banning triangular flapjacks after one was thrown in the face of a student causing injury; instead the only flapjacks allowed are square ones.  But with media reporting you sometimes get only one side of the story, so I’m not going to disrespect the school by naming it in this blog but it does ...