Woodthorpe Church of England Primary SchoolE Safety
If you have any questions or worries about Online Safety, please see any member of staff or Mrs Trundell / Mr Loader/ Mrs Gamble.
Has someone made you feel weird or uncomfortable online? CEOP can help and protect you. If someone has acted inappropriately online towards you or someone you know, you can report it directly to CEOP.
What is ‘e-safety’ and ‘online safety’?
‘e-Safety’ or ‘online safety’ covers issues relating to children, young people and adults, and their safe use of the Internet, mobile phones, tablets and other electronic communications technologies, in a range of settings including schools, early year’s providers, local sport clubs, youth groups and libraries as well as within the home.
The online safety agenda has shifted towards requiring users to manage their own risk and develop resilience and strategies to minimise any such dangers incurred online, rather than relying on filtering to block content and “remove” hazards. This change of approach requires teachers and parents/carers to develop a greater understanding of the “online world of the child”.
What risks are children likely to face whilst online?
Children and young people are likely to encounter a range of risks online which can be highlighted as:
Content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful material
Contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users (peers and strangers)
Conduct: personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm
It is important to recognise that online abuse can be perpetrated by children and young people and family members as well as by strangers.
What do I do if I think my child is being bullied online?
The responsibility for dealing with online bullying is shared. It will require cooperation between children, young people, parents, professionals and schools/education settings to ensure that situations are identified and managed appropriately.
Online or cyberbullying is the use of technology particularly mobile phones and the internet to deliberately upset or harass someone.
You can contact your child's class teacher if you think that your child is being bullied online and we will work with you to deal with the incident.
In School
In school, children learn about E-Safety through lessons along with assemblies and workshops with parents. We also encourage parents/carers to talk to their children about how to behave safely when online, to ensure pupils remain safe when browsing at home. This includes how to check for fake news or websites:
2. Read Beyond – read the whole story, not just the headline.
3. Check the author – are they a real person?
4. Look for supporting sources – fake news is less likely to have multiple verifying sources.
5. Check the date – maybe it wasn’t fake news when it was posted but is it now?
6. Is it a joke? –some of these articles are meant to be funny, sometimes people make jokes like this.
7. Check your own biases - don't just believe it because you agree and/or want to believe it!
How to Help at Home
Many of children's interactions online occur outside of school. It is important that parents and carers work in collaboration with school to encourage e -safety. There are various ways parents and carers can help manage e-safety at home.
Set up filtering on their home internet. To learn how to do this for the major providers of internet please click the text below.
Setting up internet filtering and parental controls
Check privacy settings on communication platforms, social media and online games. We know that no children under the age of 13 should be on Facebook, if they are then they should be educated as to how to ensure they are safe.
Privacy SettingsKnow what they are playing. Online gaming can be difficult to manage. The latest must have game can change quickly and it can be hard to keep up with what is age appropriate for your child or how they might interact with others while playing. Below are some useful links to use regarding video games and online gaming
www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/hot-topics/gaming
www.childnet.com/resources/online-gaming-an-introduction-for-parents
www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-carers/parents-guide-to-technology
We have also provided some guidance from Derbyshire County Council on the use of Social Networking for both pupils and parents. Please click on the links below
Guidance for Adults (Adult use of social media in relation to school)
Guidance for Children (How parents can support children's safety)
CEOP: www.ceop.police.uk
The NCA's CEOP Command (formerly the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) delivers a multi-agency service dedicated to tackling the abuse and exploitation of children in the real and the “e” world. A key focus of CEOP is the Think U Know website and education strategy to teach young people, professionals and parents/carers about e-Safety and has a “Click CEOP” report abuse button to report online abuse or suspicious behaviour. Any reports of abuse made via CEOP’s or the VGT ‘Report Abuse’ button will be answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from around the globe. The report abuse button can be used to report inappropriate or potentially illegal activity towards a child. It can be found in many websites, chatrooms and instant messaging services.
The IWF: www.iwf.org.uk
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is the UK hotline for reporting illegal online content – this may be child abuse images, or material considered to be criminally obscene or inciting hatred. A link for reporting illegal content appears on the IWF homepage.
ChildLine: www.childline.org.uk
Children and young people can ring ChildLine on 0800 1111 to speak to someone in private. The ChildLine website also offers excellent help and advice on a whole range of issues, for example online safety, sexting, grooming and bullying.
Parent Port: www.parentport.org.uk
ParentPort is run by the UK’s media regulators who set and enforce standards across the media to protect children from inappropriate material. At ParentPort parents can find out about the standards expected from the media, make a complaint and share views.
Stop it Now! www.stopitnow.org.uk
Stop it Now! UK and Ireland is a child sexual abuse prevention campaign run by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. It supports adults to play their part in prevention through providing sound information, educating members of the public and running a free phone confidential Helpline.
Documents
Parent-Online-Safety-Information
Social Media Guidance - Parents