2. Ken Corish: Online Safety Director, SWGfL David Wright: Director UK Safer Internet Centre, SWGfL

4. EU Kids Online
Schools are best placed to teach children the digital and critical literacy skills required to maximise opportunities and minimise risks. Schools are also best placed to reach all children, irrespective of socioeconomic status and other forms of inequality. For both these reasons, schools have a key role to play in encouraging and supporting creative, critical and safe uses of the internet, crucially throughout the curriculum but also at home or elsewhere
In certain countries, however, there are gaps in provision or insufficient/outdated provision of ICT in schools. More widely, there are difficulties in ensuring that digital literacy in general, and internet safety in particular, is addressed as it arises across the curriculum (not simply in ICT classes) by teachers who have been recently and appropriately trained, and with adequate resources at their disposal. Further, in many countries, schools have tended to regard children’s use of the internet at home or elsewhere (outside school) to be beyond their remit. Nonetheless, the resources of the school outstrip those of many parents, making schools the most efficient and effective way of advising children on use of the internet in any location
Global Kids Online
Few children confided in a teacher, and the follow-up survey questions suggested that few children had received e-safety or digital literacy teaching at school
Unicef – Children in a digital world
Do you remember the first time you went online?
- One in three internet users worldwide is a child
- Digital technology can be a game changer for disadvantaged children
as digital technology rapidly evolves, so can the risks children face online
Recommendations
Protect children from harm online.
Teach digital literacy to keep children informed, engaged and safe online.
Put children at the centre of digital policy.

5. Transformation Expectation
National digital safety policy and standards for schools
Empowerment
Universal system to equip all schools to implement the system and empower staff
Education
Educate all children to manage online risks to benefit from technology
Prevent harm online
Evaluation
How well equipped are schools and teachers to recognise, respond and resolve issues
How do you know?

6. Develop school safeguarding policy
Encourage safe use in school and beyond
Outstanding online safety education for all

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8. Expectation 15
years
SWGfL experience in policy and standards development
NATIONAL ONLINE SAFETY POLICY FOR SCHOOLS
STANDARDS FOR ONLINE SAFETY
UAE
adaptation
EDUCATION SYSTEM
CULTURE
LANGUAGE
LEGISLATION
Education system
Cultural
Language
Legislation

9. Empowerment
360 degree safe system empowers schools to assess and track performance against online safety standards.
Prioritized improvement actions and reports
Schools rewarded with accreditation standard
National training programme

10. Education Age appropriate classroom and curriculum resources
Staff Professional Development
Parental support materials
Child Protection reporting measures
National online safety specialists trained

11. Evaluation Individual school progression data and report
Accreditation levels
National school performance and tracking data
Inform national strategy

12. …”changing a nation, one school at a time”

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