E-Safety

Nine Steps to E-Safety

As you well know, e-safety is more than a tick-box exercise. Sustained action is essential to embed e-safety into the culture and values of a school. But a checklist is a good place to start, so here’s our Nine Steps to E-Safety Checklist. How will you score?

1. Clear e-safety policies in place
2. A plan for becoming Ofsted compliant
3. CPD and training for teachers, including accredited EPICT certification
4. Clear guidelines for pupils around the consequences of online bullying and inappropriate use of technology
5. Clear and open lines of communication for pupils to report incidents
6. Procedures for recording, acting upon and preventing e-safety incidents in the future
7. Sessions to inform and educate pupils on becoming digitally responsible and staying safe online
8. Monitoring and filtering solutions to help keep pupils on task and protect them from bullying and harmful material
9. A way of engaging with parents to help them put in place e-safety measures at home

Did You Know?

• 92% of secondary school children have had experience of being cyber-bullied (NFER E-safety report, 2012)
• 77% of 12 to 13 year olds have a Facebook or another social networking page (The Cybersurvey, 2012)
• 40% of Key Stage 3 and 4 students have witnessed a 'sexting' incident and, in the same group, 40% didn't consider topless images inappropriate

With regular headlines in the press about cyber-bullying, the dangers of inappropriate content and the questionable safety of social media; combined with an increasing number of students wanting to bring in their own internet-enabled devices and mobile phones; it's little wonder that E-safety is quite rightly becoming a growing priority.

In fact, E-safety has become so important that OFSTED now includes it as part of their inspections. So how do you enable pupils to take full advantage of the technology to support learning and prepare them for the real world whilst providing a safe environment?

Don't panic. Call in the experts.

we have a specific focus on E-safety in education and we can help you develop your E-safety strategy and put in place provisions that will drive down the risk of e-incidents and help you get that all important "Outstanding" Ofsted rating. We can put you in touch with:

• An EPICT accredited CPD training course.
• E-safety workshops for senior managers, teachers, governors, parents and pupils.
• E-safety advice and consultancy.

More can be found here for a self assesment :- 360 Safe E-Safety Review Tool
Engage the school governors Ofsted guidance on e-safety