Safeguarding children in a digital world LSCB regional

Safeguarding children in a digital world LSCB regional events November 08

Becta’s principles 01 Protect in school, educate for out of school 02 Make the UK the safest place online 03 Improve child safety and protection Consider e-safety as a child protection issue, 04 not a technology issue Encourage mainstreaming of e-safety in wider 05 safeguarding policies

What do we mean by Safeguarding? Empowering children and young people to protect themselves from the 4 C’s • Content - Uploaded and downloaded! • Commerce - Scams, identity theft, commercialism • Contact - Grooming: sexual and race hatred • Culture - Cyberbullying and social networking

The national issues Childrens W/F Parents Industries Lack of teacher confidence to teach e-safety Lack of awareness of the issue Lack of curriculum time Not engaged Feel overwhelmed Lack confidence to parent online Not accessing or using available information Fatigued by blame Not driven by parental demand for safety Work well with government and third sector Not delivering transparency, clarity, consistency Children Government Running ahead Vulnerable: technical knowledge and wisdom Face the same development issues online Prone to risk Not always joined-up Not using all levers effectively Lacking technical expertise Under pressure to find a silver bullet

Why LSCBs…? The Children’s Act 2004: Safeguard and promote the welfare of children Every Child Matters Staying Safe Working together to Safeguard Children A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children Byron Review: Harmful or inappropriate “material” – CONTENT, CONTACT, CONDUCT LSCB Stocktake

Becta’s work to date with LSCBs… Month Activity Oct 07 Meeting with ADCS Chair of Information Systems and Technology Committee (Richard Stiff, North Lincs) November 07 CEOP and ADCS support for the safeguarding of children online and local authority support Dec 07 ADCS support a national survey Feb 08 Wrote to every local authority asking them to nominate a strategic e-safety lead, launch of the toolkit and a national conference – 141 LAs have nominated a strategic e-safety lead April 08 Sponsoring of ADCS presidency June 08 LSCB e-safety development days – 42 LSCBs attended September 08 LSCB e-safety development days - 72 LSCBs attended November 08 Regional events Post Nov Support through the online forum

Today…. . • Is an opportunity for you to develop and test your strategy • Take stock and map into current plans • To hear from colleagues in the region about how they can support your work

This afternoon… 3 options: 1 – an exercise to extend your thinking; test your strategy 2 – a series of tasks aimed at getting to grips with the toolkit 3 – an opportunity to work independently on your own strategy