At what point do we all draw the E-Safety line with our Policy

[Tech-head]

a interesting discussion came up with our schools e-safety committee last night, discussing pupils devices and at what point do we draw the line at getting involved...

 

school device, on school network, in school time: school gets in involved

personal device, on non-school network, in school hours: school gets in involved as personal devices shouldn't be used in school

everyone agreed on those point, the controversy comes with the next scenario

 

personal device, on non-school network, out of school hours: would love to see peoples thoughts and views on this situation

[GuyJD]

we had a recent situation involving Instagram and posts that were made out of school hours but involved our kids and we stepped in, I can't go into detail about why we got involved but the head decided we needed to.

[RichCowell]

If our attention is brought to it at school, and it involves our students, we get involved and deal with it as though it happened in school etc... If we're aware of it it falls under the duty of care for the students, so it needs to be acted on...

[Disease]

We would get involved to be honest and have done in the past, bullying, sexting, racism etc. towards pupils doesn't end at 3pm, it is also an extension of solid pastoral care as well.

[CyberNerd]

Didn't you get the memo about schools becoming parents/social services?

Sometimes we get involved, sometimes we don't - depends upon personal circumstances and the whim of whoever and whether the problem is likely to affect the student in school

[CamelMan]

For us it depends on the situation - however if you take the tech out of it, if a student was being bullied in the evening - the school would still get involved to care for the student.

 

The tech changes the details and makes it easier but whats happening would still probably fall somewhere between school and parents - Id imagine that something along the lines of "School would assist where possible, support the student and liase with parents" might be a policy line applicable.

[rad]

Our school deals with it as it is sometimes a bullying issue.

Others though that I assist with (getting screenshots off phones, videos, pictures etc .... in the presence of a member of safeguarding) should really be a police matter however the school tend to gather the information and then in comes PC #SchoolOfficer to make it an official issue that is then a police matter.

[elsiegee40]

If our attention is brought to it at school, and it involves our students, we get involved and deal with it as though it happened in school etc... If we're aware of it it falls under the duty of care for the students, so it needs to be acted on...

 

This is exactly it. The school must never ignore a Safeguarding issue with one of its students wherever it occur

 

Esafety IS a safeguarding problem. Nothing more, nothing less

[Gibson335]

Yeah, we'd be involved, though with all the obvious limitations as to what we may be able to do.