On-line Child Protection Year 10 E- safety
Apr 01, 2015
On-line Child Protection
Year 10 E-safety
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.
Aim for Parents Tonight?
• Getting up to speed with emerging threats and the latest risks in order to protect your daughter on-line.
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.
On-Line Threats• The profile of on-
line abusers is changing.
• Psychological effects of on-line child abuse.
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.
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.
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.
Sexting and On-line Pornography
• Those involved in sexting may be committing a criminal offence, specifically crimes involving indecent photographs.
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.
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.
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.
Digital Footprints
• Every time an individual goes on-line they leave a trail, which forms different on-line identities.
Different Online Identities
• On-line activities during your daughter’s ‘private time’ will be recorded.
On-line Reputation
• Your daughter’s digital footprint and on-line reputation will stay with her for ever!
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!!
Cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying is the use of the internet, mobile phones and social networking sites deliberately to upset someone else. The consequences can be severe.
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.
Cyberbullying
•However…..
• Facebook!!
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’.
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.
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.
Parents Help?
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre