(Updated May 2013) e-Safety risk assessment is an important part of school governance. Schools risk assess all the time; sometimes this is a formally documented process, sometimes it is assessment through experience. If you think about it, you are already risk assessing constantly: when you get into your car to go to work you take […]
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Cyberbullying is fast becoming the scourge of social networks. e-Safety is many things, with many risks and significant concerns, and there is a lot of scaremongering surrounding e-safety. But when it comes to the death of a child through suicide there is a rage inside of me which is continually fuelled through the apathy of
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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
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e-Safety and Data Protection (DPA 1998) go hand in hand; the increasing trend of 1 to 1 and bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives means that schools need to have an in-depth understanding of the technologies being used in the school, and to assess any risks with a view to mitigation. BYOD in a school
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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
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