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