Working in partnership to develop e-safe communities

1. Working in partnership to develop e-safe communities Graham Tilby Divisional Manager – Safeguarding & Review (Chair of Dudley’s e-safety strategy group) Shirley Hackett Education Improvement Advisor - ICT Directorate of Children’s Services

2. Outline of presentation Developing our strategy The challenges within schools Parents education Our achievements ESCape Project Next Steps and success factors

3. Developing a strategy Engaging the right stakeholders & partners –Children’s Services (ICT, Safeguarding, Education, Schools, Youth Service), Primary Care Trust, Mental Health Acute Trust, Connexions, Police, Community Safety, Libraries, Stop it Now! Black Country & Birmingham, Parent Lay Advisors, Young Person (CEOP Youth Panel), …Be visionary –mission statement & strategic objectivesSet Realistic Targets – monitor & evaluate Dudley Safeguarding Children Board is committed to engaging and empowering children and young people so they can stay safe from harm, exploitation & abuse and from bullying in the real world & virtual world

4. Dudley Safeguarding Children Boarde.safetystrategy education all children, young people & parents/carers are equipped with the knowledge & skills to safeguard themselves onlinesafetyall adults who work with children & young people have access to effective training, good policies and safe systems ICT in Schools & Colleges Internet in homes New technologies in Public Spaces Dudley’s ‘e.safety’ Strategy Group

5. The Growth of the Internet January 2006 ………………. 17000 new web sites every day April 2007 ………………. 1million new websites every day The 3Ps PORN POKER PILLS January 2008 ………………. 5.4 million new web sites every day

6. For young people ICT is not a novelty but the way they engage with their world - 21st century culture • Communication via email, chat rooms and message boards, IM, SMS, weblogs, social networks, Skype, podcasting…….. • Entertainment – watching films on DVD, downloading music, playing games, taking, storage and retrieval of digital images. • Education – research, word processing, data manipulation, modelling, design, WIKIs, creativity, recording thoughts • Personal management – diary, appointment calendars and address books, alarm clock and personal reminders, finding the best party locations! • For shopping • ………………..all at the same time!

7. Welcome to the Information Superhighway The net is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea – massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.Author:Rob Stampfli

8. How do we keep our staff and pupils e-safe? • Common network - fully managed service • Firewalls – Filtering - Monitoring • Acceptable Use Policies and Guidance • Training • Working with others – DSCB, police • Provide schools with a range of tools to help

9. Safety not complacency

10. What about education? • Every Child Matters • Media Literacy – new national curriculum • ICT Mark and Schools Ofsted SEF • Learning Platform • Escape • Ice Every Child Matters Change for Children

11. Best web resources Fastest time Safest environment Unique - personalised results

12. Issues for schools to consider • Who is responsible for teaching e-safety? • ICT Child Protection PSHE – where does it fit? • What do you teach? • At what age should internet safety lessons start? • How can parents be involved? • Advent of 3G and ‘mobile internet’ • Data security – PASSWORDS! • External issues being brought into school e.g. cyberbullying • Protection for staff – AUP’s

14. Dudley Safeguarding Children Boarde.safety strategy education all children, young people & parents/carers are equipped with the knowledge & skills to safeguard themselves onlinesafetyall adults who work with children & young people have access to effective training, good policies and safe systems ICT in Schools & Colleges Internet in homes New technologies in Public Spaces Dudley’s ‘e.safety’ Strategy Group

15. Educating professionals & parents? Hill Crest Community School – training of all staff in basic child protection & e-safety in April 2006Professionals walk away as ‘parents/carers’Some parents don’t feel its their businessLanguage is keyParents are surprisingly naïveVictim disclosuresTrainers need privileged internet accessIt’s a lot of effort but worth it!

16. What have we achieved? • Trained over 1,000 professionals via 1-day multi-agency course or • 2-3 e-safety sessions (e-safety trainers) • Children & young people have received e-safety lessons as part of PHSE (using CEOP & other resources) • Delivered e-safety sessions to over 600 parents/carers, including foster carers • Delivered e-safety awareness to Imams from local mosques • Distributed over 2,000 Stop it Now! internet safety leaflets across Dudley and over 8,000 across the Black Country • Distributed nearly 30,000 Parenting Handbooks (includes a chapter on e-safety) • Produced a leaflet with young people for young people in respect of cyberbullying and internet (Community Safety)

17. What have we achieved? • Several features in the local press, radio, cinemas and magazines on internet safety • Distributed ‘Know it all’ DVD to parents via schools • Internet safety included within Libraries ‘Safety Week’ • Comprehensively revised safeguarding procedures in respect of new technologies • DSCB Bi-Annual Conference featured internet safety as one of its main themes • 14 people trained as CEOP Ambassadors across ICT and safeguarding specialisms • Produced e-safer newsletter for children’s workforce signposting national & local resources & developments and summary of Byron Review for agencies & schools

18. DSCB ‘SafER’ Newsletter • Could the following situations occur in Dudley? • ‘Staff subject to cyber bullying attacks by their • Year 6 pupils’ • ‘Teacher downloading adult pornography on the schools laptop’ • ‘12 year-old arranges to meet adult who has been sending her sexually explicit texts’ • ‘Teacher grooms child online whilst sexually abusing another child in his school’ • ‘Mobile phone used to video oral sex between pupils – images put on website’ • ‘14 yr-old male ’sagging’ on You Tube’ • Unfortunately, they already have…

19. ESCape Projecta public, private & voluntary sector collaboration Partnership - Commissioned by Dudley e-safety strategy group, funded by Dudley Grid for Learning & RM and produced & delivered by The Saltmine TrustPerformed in 60 Dudley Schools (around 10,000 pupils) and the Edinburgh Festival – predominantly primary (Years 4-6)Accompanied by E-Safety Resource Pack – follow-up materials and signposting further resourcesESCape DVD Film Production & Competition – resource to schools & LSCBsShort-listed for a national Children & Young People Now Stay Safe Award – 20th November 2008

20. Next Steps Cyberbullying Workshop –‘Lets fight it together’ - during Anti-Bullying Week involving young people & adults (November 2008) Launch of ESCape DVD & development of ‘e-safety pledge’ on Internet Safety Day (February 2009) Review of e-safety strategy incorporating feedback from schools questionnaires & measures for evaluation (by end of March 2009) Continued development of ICE & NICE Targeted training for parents/carers and improved responses to children who have been harmed and adults who present a risk

21. Success factors… E.SafetyHill Crest School19th June 2006 No-one individual or agency can do it alone!Spend some time working out who the key players are and engage them – look for people with passion!Adopt an approach which promotes consistency but allows for flexibility!Make awareness & education a priority in all that you do!Develop a range of activities, use the media and be creative!Keep one eye on the future whilst accepting that you will often feel like you are in the past!Don’t view the real and virtual as separate worlds!

22. Our contact details • The Saltmine Trust • Creative@saltmine.org • www.saltmine.org.uk • 01384 454807 graham.tilby@dudley.gov.uk shirley.hackett@dudley.gov.uk http://safeguardingchildren.dudley.gov.uk www.stopitnow.org.uk • Thank You for Listening