On-line Child Protection

1. On-line Child Protection Year 10 E-safety

2. Year 10 E-safety • E-safety awareness and guidance is directly taught the Year 10 PSHE programme and ICT course. • Safeguarding is also incorporated into GCSE subject lessons as well as assemblies and presentations from visiting speakers.

3. Aim for Parents Tonight? • Getting up to speed with emerging threats and the latest risks in order to protect your daughter on-line.

4. On-Line Threats • Sophisticated new technologies can pose unseen potential risks. • Risks come from either adults who use the internet to exploit young people sexually or from other children who subject their peers to cyberbullying.

5. On-Line Threats • The profile of on-line abusers is changing. • Psychological effects of on-line child abuse.

6. Sexting and On-line Pornography • Dramatic increase in cases of sexting and on-line pornography with young people. • Girls in particular are very secretive. • Where relationships are involved, ‘intelligent’ girls appear to loose all common sense.

7. Sexting and On-line Pornography • Problems often occur because girls are too trusting of people they ‘talk’ to on-line. • The photos shared within a relationship can quickly become ‘public’ images.

8. Sexting and On-line Pornography • It is so easy for young people to become involved in chat-rooms, roulette sites etc. • PLEASE CHECK YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS.

9. Sexting and On-line Pornography • Those involved in sexting may be committing a criminal offence, specifically crimes involving indecent photographs.

10. Sexting and On-line Pornography • There is a direct link between sexting and on-line pornography with grooming and sexual exploitation of children (minors). • Safeguarding issues.

11. What is a digital footprint? • Digital footprint is the size of an individual’s online presence; as it relates to the number of individuals they interact with.

12. When does your digital footprint start? • 75% of children under two have some kind of digital footprint. • 37% newborns have an on-line life from the day they are born (23% pre-birth scans uploaded) • 7% under 2’s have an email address and 5% have social networking profile. • 70% of mothers stated prime motivation was to share photos with family/friends.

13. Digital Footprints • Every time an individual goes on-line they leave a trail, which forms different on-line identities.

14. Different Online Identities • On-line activities during your daughter’s ‘private time’ will be recorded.

15. On-line Reputation • Your daughter’s digital footprint and on-line reputation will stay with her for ever!

16. On-line Identity Risks • Personal information is routinely collected and kept for years and years by companies and viewed by individuals looking for information. • Potential risks!!

17. Cyberbullying • Cyberbullying is the use of the internet, mobile phones and social networking sites deliberately to upset someone else. The consequences can be severe.

18. Cyberbullying • In law, cyberbullying is incorporated into a school’s anti-bullying policy. • Any cyberbullying taking place during the school day, within school will be dealt with seriously and students will face sanctions as appropriate.

19. Cyberbullying • However….. • Facebook!!

20. Social Media Sites • Schools are not responsible for activities that take place out of school hours on social media sites. • Headteachers may exercise their ‘power’ to ‘enable them to police cyber-bullying carried out by pupils even at home’.

21. Social Media Sites • ‘This is only where it is reasonable for the school to regulate the pupils conduct at the time.’ • Problem: others are involved!! • Ribston Hall will take very seriously issues of racial abuse, derogatory comments about the school community, for example.

22. Positives of the Internet • 4 in 5 parents say they know what their children get up to on line • 1 in 3 children say their parents have NO IDEA what they get up to on line. • Get involved.

23. Parents Help? Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre