Parents' and Carers' seminar E-safety Grace Academy 15 May 2014 Bev Petch David Butt

Parenting/caring and e-safety Have you ever wondered how to be as good a parent online as you are offline?

E-safety CEOP Where’s Klaus?

What is e-safety? E-safety is not just about technology It is about people and behaviour It is about education It is a safeguarding issue

E-safety background 1997(-ish)  downloading  consuming  corporate  separate media  static 2014 (web 2.0)  uploading  creating  home/personal  converged media  fully interactive

E-safety Context  Facebook, Twitter and YouTube did not exist 10 years ago  There are Facebook updates, over 72 hours of YouTube uploads and tweets every minute  800 million people access YouTube once a month or more  There are 30 million Facebook accounts in the UK – half of the people you meet have a Facebook account  If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest in the world – one billion users

Background Wikipedia “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.” Jimmy Wales Founder of Wikipedia Everton Zanella Alvarenga/Flickr

International issues  The internet is international  Laws vary from country to country  Taste varies from country to country  Democratic rights vary from country to country  The internet is unregulated “We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.” John Perry Barlow A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

E-safety risk Getting the balance right The Internet has benefits and risks SeriousMild RareMore Frequent Risks

E-safety background Access and use  “22% of children aged 8-12 have a profile on sites that require users to register as being 13 or over.  23% of children, aged 11-12, using a social network site had felt upset or scared by something on in in the last year.  60% of children aged had been asked for a sexual image or video of themselves” NSPCC and ChildLine

E-safety background Incidents  “ 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.  28% of Key Stage 3 and 4 students have been deliberately targeted, threatened or humiliated by an individual or group through the use of mobile phones or the internet.  Issues are magnified for ‘vulnerable’ children (for example disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs, looked after children).” –Inspecting e-safety, Ofsted,September 2012

E-safety social networking Using Facebook as an example  Facebook has rules…

E-safety social networking How much do we reveal?

E-safety social networking If you wish your child to use a social networking site  help set up their profile  add your as the main contact (if possible)  insist that you are one of your child’s ‘friend’  set the privacy settings to ‘friends only’ and ensure they are children you know  show them a CEOP safety resource which outlines the risks (

E-safety at home Mobile phone risks  unsupervised internet access  images taken and uploaded  sharing your child's location  personal messaging  usage  theft

E-safety at home Gaming risks  inappropriate content  unwanted contact  overuse

E-safety CEOP Exposed

Parenting/caring and e-safety Have you ever wondered how to be as good a parent online as you are offline?

What is e-safety? E-safety is not just about technology It is about people and behaviour It is about education It is a safeguarding issue

E-safety risks Content  Sexual content  Violent content  Hate  Radicalisation  Self-harm  Accuracy

E-safety risks Contact  grooming  cyber-bullying  Inappropriate contact

Grooming… A lot of grooming is entirely on line.  Grooming is the manipulation process that someone uses to get mentally and physically ‘close’ to you, in order to eventually take advantage of you sexually.  Grooming can take place online or face to face and groomers often groom patiently over a long period, to succeed in getting what they want. (victim)

Grooming… A lot of grooming is entirely on line.  Children can be groomed from a young age  Grooming can often be the prelude to child sexual exploitation and abuse  Time period from initial engagement to offending can be very short

E-safety risks Conduct  privacy issues, including disclosure of personal information  digital footprint and online reputation  health and well-being (amount of time spent online … )  Inappropriate behaviour – such as sexting (sending and receiving of personally intimate images)  Copyright/plagiarism (little care or consideration for intellectual property and ownership … )”

What Do Solihull Children & Young People Tell Us? Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire March 2014 (Schools Health Education Unit, Exeter)  Anonymous questions about range of health related behaviours, including safety  Administered in years 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, representing the voices of thousands of Solihull pupils  E-safety questions for the first time in 2012

HRQB level of use 92% have a computer at home. 91% access the internet outside school. Accessing the internet in the last week:  93% at home  84% at school  32% elsewhere

Internet use in years 8 and 10

Online behaviours  18% have met someone in real life whom they first met online (26% of year 10 girls)  29% have seen pictures online that upset them (40% of year 10 girls)  11% do not use social media  63% use social media and share images of themselves

Online behaviours  5% share images of themselves on social media which they wouldn't show parents  10% share images they wouldn’t show their teachers or headteacher (year 10 girls in particular) Both above figures have decreased slightly since 2012  17% have had an image shared of them on social media which made them unhappy (25% of year 10 girls)

Keeping Safe ‘Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe – this isn’t just about a top-down approach. Children will be children – pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim.’ Byron Review: Safer Children in a Digital World. 2008

Adults as role models

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