Boarding School - Tackling ESafety

[Digital_Coley]

Hi,

 

This is my first post ever!

 

I am an Esafety Officer in a boarding school and was wondering whether there was anyone else who deals with the same thing or has any advice around the following;

 

- Engaging with parents

- Speakers (like Digital Awareness UK, Lorin LaFave, Time To Log Off)

[elsiegee40]

Hello and welcome. I have a background of working in the independent sector, prep but with no boarding provision.

 

The eSafety buck in any school firmly stops with the Designated Safeguarding Lead as they are the person legally responsible for ensuring the school's legal duties are fulfilled. Your DSL must be part of this and it cannot be treated as something entirely separate from Safeguarding.

 

We have plenty of resources in our eSafety forum - take a look at the pinned threads. There are also some relevant things in our Policies forum - particularly information on Acceptable Use Policies.

 

We are lucky that Rebecca Avery, Kent's Online Safety Officer who is highly regarded nationally, contributes here as @esafety_officer. It is well worth following her blog. Create an account on this website and follow Online Safety to get the latest updates, or simply browse the posts tagged with Online Safety

https://www.theeducationpeople.org/blog/

 

Her county web page which is just as relevant to people in other counties is here https://www.kelsi.org.uk/child-protection-and-safeguarding/e-safety

Edited July 30, 2018 by elsiegee40

[AlanD]

Don't see why those two issues are unique to boarding schools....

 

We do "letters" to parents - with recommendations about home internet and how to get suppliers to ensure its filtered....and for mobile phone filtering...and social media warnings....etc.

 

And we do evening and twilight meetings - to cover much the same ground but with opportunities for them to ask questions - and for us to give examples of material we have seen around the school etc. regarding bullying, sexting (without example of course). Sometimes these are hosted by ourselves - sometimes we have had external speakers(which often carry more weight - and often have a very up to date take on such matter as radicalisation etc

 

...I thought all schools did this kind of thing....