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Next Generation Learning – Stay safe – working with your local safeguarding children board. Charlotte Aynsley & Anna Janes. Presented at BETT 2009 on Thursday 15 January 2009. Protect in school, educate for out of school. 01. Make the UK the safest place online. 02.
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Next Generation Learning – Stay safe – working with your local safeguarding children board Charlotte Aynsley & Anna Janes Presented at BETT 2009 on Thursday 15 January 2009
Protect in school, educate for out of school 01 Make the UK the safest place online 02 Improve child safety and protection 03 Consider e-safety as a child protection issue, not a technology issue 04 Encourage mainstreaming of e-safety in wider safeguarding policies 05 Becta’s principles
So…..How do our children and young people use technology….? Meet…Jordan This is how he uses technology
Communication Entertainment Education Personal Management For young people, technology is a way of life
There are over 110 million active users of MySpace (as of January 2008)
If MySpace were a country, it would be the 11th largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico)
So what are the risks? The Byron Review categorised the risks into four main areas: • Contact – risk of physical assault, sexual abuse etc • Content – illegal or inappropriate content • Conduct – antisocial or illegal behaviour • Commerce – online gambling, financial scams
The remit for Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) • The Children’s Act 2004:Safeguard and promote the welfare of children • Every Child MattersStaying Safe • Working together to Safeguard ChildrenA guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children • Byron Review:Harmful or inappropriate “material” – CONTENT, CONTACT, CONDUCT
Anna Janes Brent LSCB e-safety sub-committee - chair Stay Safe – Working with your Local Safeguarding Children Boards
Vision statement “Swimming pools can be dangerous for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences and deploy pool alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one’s children is teach them to swim.” Youth, Pornography and the Internet National Research Council USA 2002
online citizenship = online safety We teach our children to swim not just to prevent them from drowning but also for the pleasure they may get from it and the benefits it brings to their health. Brent LSCB believes that we must teach children to ‘swim’ in the online world not only to ensure their safety but also to enable them to improve their emotional health and their enjoyment of the world. We must therefore encourage children and young people to develop as responsible online citizens.
What can schools do? • Where do you fit in?
Contact… Anna Janes London Borough of Brent Chesterfield House 9 Park Lane Wembley HA9 7RH T +44 (0)20 8937 4735 E anna.janes@brent.gov.uk www.brent-lscb.org.uk