Safeguarding

Parental engagement is an important part of whole-school and community e-safety. A fundamental part of this are the parents themselves.But if you don’t know what the parents do/don’t know, and you don’t know how children are using digital devices and the Internet at home you won’t know what you need to know. This is also […]

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The e-Safety Policy is vitally important in school for a number of reasons, including: To ensure there is a clear and consistent approach responding to incidents. To ensure that every person responsible for the children is fully aware of his/her responsibilities. To set boundaries of use (goalposts) of any school owned IT equipment, or personal

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Online safety is one of those topics which is always high on the agenda.  I suppose there are many reasons for this which are probably best left for another blog. For me technology has always been a very important part of my adult life professionally and personally.  I don’t really know why; when I left

Is e-Safety the reason why some schools don’t embrace ICT? Read More »

Whenever e-safety is discussed cyberbullying is always at or near the top of the agenda.  It is a hot topic with very good reason as you can see from some examples HERE. A recent Beatbullying survey showed that 28 percent of young people are bullied with a significant number of those bullied for a year

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There are thousands of e-safety and online safety resources on the internet ranging from one extreme to the other.  Some are fantastic, some are questionable.  I am continually asked for the best resource for this or that, and my work across the whole public sector allows me a good perspective of some of these resources.

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