The document provides recommendations and guidance for schools around e-safety policies and practices. It recommends that the Department for Children Schools and Families re-emphasize schools' duty to ensure pupil e-safety, issue guidance on evaluating e-safety policy effectiveness, and help schools develop expertise in e-safety. It also recommends that Ofsted retain references to e-safety in inspections and ensure inspectors are trained on evaluating e-safety. The document then provides extensive guidance on e-safety policy content and responsibilities of various stakeholders.
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1. Ofsted & E-SafetyLiverpools Safeguarding board & LA draft proposal9/15/2009RecommendationsThe Department for Children Schools and Families should:re-emphasise the duty of schools to ensure their pupils e-safety.
3. providing examples of effective interventions work with Becta and local authorities to help develop and maintain schools expertise in e-safety, including advising them on legal issues surrounding the use, or confiscation, of private electronic property on school sites advise schools on how they might work with families and other agencies to help combat misuse of privately owned equipment outside school hours.Ofsted will:Retain references to e-safety in the current school self-evaluation form
4. Ensure that the training and guidance for inspectors include an appropriate focus on e-safety, for example within the evaluation of safeguarding and the care and support of pupils.Becta is the government agency that promotes the innovative use of information technology in learning; ww.becta.org.uk/.
5. Your children are E-Safe savvyWhen questioned, they know;Policy, procedure, and what toDo when they are worriedYou use the students as mentors for beginners, Whether that is staff orNew students.Are all your support staff, as well as your teaching staff trained and confident Using Technology safelyParents and Carers are alsoConfident in their use of Technology With a view to E-Safety And supporting their childrenTrainingFor E-SafetyAre governors trained and Instrumental in the design and implementation of E-Safety measures And policyTraining has taken placeHowever, staff have not cascadedEssential information.Children have some orLittle understandingOf dangers posed by the use of technologyThere is little impact on what the children know or understand9/15/2009
6. 9/15/2009Your children feel safe online and areClearly aware of how to stay safeThere is clear and rigorousGuidance and understanding ofHow to deal with cyber-bullyingHowever, the latter rarely happensYour children respect their Technological environmentAssessment &StandardsFor E-SafetyChildren quickly and confidently engage and experiment With new and emerging technologiesAcceptable/Responsible usePolicy is completed for ALL staff, Students and visitors to the schoolChildren lackAwareness of how to stay safe onlineThere is a log of Regular cyber-bullying incidentsChildren get mostOf their E-Safety SavvyOff their own backs
7. 9/15/2009We have outside trainers And speakers come in andUpdate staff and studentsE-Safety is delivered implicitly And explicitly throughoutThe curriculum, it DOES NOT sitIn the domain of ICT lessonsMonitoring and revision of the Curriculums Interaction with Technology is rigorous and frequentThe curriculum & E-SafetyWe avoid reactive situations andIncidents through a policy and ethos ofResponsible use for ALL usersE-Safety incidents haveA swift and positiveoutcomeWe rely on the LAsFiltering policy to makeSure our children are safeWe change our E-SafetyPolicy following an incident e.g. Breaches of security, cyber-bullyingThe ICT department Sort out AUPs and E-Safety policy...We go and see the Head of ICT when there is an issue
8. 9/15/2009Our AUP/RUP is devised and Agreed upon by ALL stakeholders; from Students to parents to governorsStaff and students areALL aware of procedureWhen there is an E-Safety incidentWe have evaluative commentsRegarding E-Safety in our SEFALL actions taken are basedOn rigorous self assessment, including, E-Safety...This has an OUTSTANDINGImpact on E-Safety in ourSchool communityLeadership & Management for E-SafetyStaff and Students are awareOf the LEVELS/CLASSIFICATIONSOf incidents and how to proceedWe still have regularDifficulties/E-Safety incidents in and out of schoolAnd when educated off siteWe have an Acceptable Use Policy that students and parents signAt the beginning of the yearIncidents are put into a log bookIn the schools Network room or teachers inform the Network manager....it is unlikely that changes to policy are heavily influenced by these logs, there would be little evidence to support this.
9. Safeguarding issues are a limiting judgementE-Safety is inadequate in your school if:Your school relies on outside agencies (e.g. LA filtering) to keep children safeE-Safety is considered an ICT issue in your school and not embedded in the safeguarding children arenaYour children do not feel safeEven if there is general understanding of e-safety and children feel safe. there is still the tendency to lock down and ban rather than deliver a responsible use policy9/15/2009
25. Guidance to E-Safety terminology for parents / carers Flyers for distribution; E-Safety responsibility and information for;Governors, Teaching Staff and Support Staff, Students / pupils, Parents, Community users and any other relevant groups.ContentIntroduction - Includes guidance on how to use this document, and the stakeholders involved in your schools consultation and subsequent development of an E-Safety policy
26. Background / Rationale - Explains how a school e-safety policy should help to ensure safe and appropriate use. The use of these exciting and innovative tools in school and at home has been shown to raise educational standards and promote pupil / student achievement.
27. Development, monitoring and review of the Policy outlining stakeholders involved in the development and monitoring of your schools E-Safety policy
28. Schedule for development, monitoring and review - What and how schools agree upon their own schedule
29. Scope of the Policy This policy applies to all members of the school community (including staff, students / pupils, volunteers, parents / carers, visitors, community users) who have access to and are users of school ICT systems, both in and out of school.9/15/2009