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Brilliant school and good team. Good luck to those who apply.

A very good trust to work with, and the Group IT team are brilliant. They have a FITS trainer in-house as well.

My iMac DVSE which I use with my Elgato adapter for archiving old VHS tapes ... bought Easter 2000 and still runs when needed.

If it is a new build then here are a few handy tricks to save your sanity. Door handle will get bumped and banged. If they are handles then some foam insulation over them with micropore / masking tape. It will save taking chunks out of your hands / arms as you carry stuff through and save on scratches to furniture. If they are door knobs then old tennis balls cover them well. Note the difficult was to move things around or door frames which will be tight squeezes. Packing boxes broken down and stuck on walls / corners / door frames can limit damage when you bash them with that heavy wardrobe that is the source of the song Right Said Fred. Again, micropore of masking tape to stick the cardboard to walls / door frames / etc will mean that you won't pull paint off when you come to tidy up. Furniture polish on new lino makes this slide easier. Better still if you have an old piece of lino that the object can sit on. Handy for moving that fridge and washing machine. Save your vegetable spread tubs ... handy for all those screws you have to take off things when taking things apart to move. Don't forget to tape them closed though as you don't want to lose anything. Lifehacker also has a bunch of moving tips IIRC.

Some of it is simple logistics. The house will need a clean / vacuuming, so whilst one person is doing that (whilst you get the van?) other things that can be done to follow it can be hanging the curtains, etc. As much as you will want to put the relevant boxes in the relevant rooms you might have to accept one room as the staging area so that the freshly cleaned rooms can have the big furniture go into them. This does mean shifting boxes around twice ... but the last things you want to do is put a bunch of boxes in a room (e.g. master bedroom) only to have to shift them out and in again to sort out beds, wardrobes, etc. Have family suitcases ... treat it as if you are going on a 6 day holiday and pack for that amount for you and the family. That way you know it doesn't matter if the clothes are not unpacked until the end. If you are getting new furniture (flatpack, etc) then get them into the room and built first. It is amazing how quickly you can build things in an empty room when not struggling over boxes or existing furniture. Save your packing boxes ... even if you *do* clear out as much as you can before you move there will *still* be more things to be dumped / recycled / recycled afterwards.

The list is for when the honour is actually conferred on the individual ... i.e. it will happen during the year of XXXX, when the go and visit the palace, etc.

I'll be there all week with LP+, hoping to catch up with a lot of folk on eSafety too. I've already started practising putting on my own faceprint for Friday, in case my regular conspirator is not available.

You are the distributor of CCCBs? You evil person ... for a chocolate lover / coffee hater such as I it is a terrible trick!

I was at a recent think tank event they hosted, and will be in touch with them again soon. If no-one has any objections I will point them to this thread and suggest they join in the fun?

That raises interesting questions about services with combine lots of things together ... and I am not sure how carefully anyone has looked at the T&Cs for Google recently (there general accounts, not the GAfE accounts). There are the good guides out there about FaceBook and Twitter, etc ... but can't really find one for Google's general service. One of the reasons why I have previously blogged about Apple T&Cs (IIRC it was for iBooks Author and linking it to the school, and then the impact it has on your personal AppleID if you publish things) and what they are actually covered for under Safe Harbor is that combined services can raise issues for what you are actually agreeing to (or what that agreement changes to when services change or are added to). One to raise to UKSIC perhaps?

Yes, that was my bad to ascribe a sentiment to you that you did not express ... and I am sorry it was you that put up the stance that you did (I actually had my money on one of a few others), but I had been waiting for at least one person to say it. Now people might understand how some Social Workers, SENCOs, foster parents, adoptive parents, families who have moved away from abusive partners, etc might take what you have said. Please remember that although you may have meant your words to mean one thing, they could get interpreted by others as something different or even used by others to bolster their arguments. I did not troll lightly (and yes, it was trolling) but it was to make a point. No, you have more than 2 choices. Saying that just because it is too hard to do anything so we will either just ban it or accept it ... that is a cop out. Life is full of having do deal with difficult things and trying to change the minds of others. This is just another example. It is not going to be perfect and will take a *lot* of hard work ... but that is why I said

@rdk glad you think it is ok to possibly cause even further psychological harm to a child by restricting what they do ... remembering that these children are often in positions due to no fault of their own ... and there are plenty of reasons why families and schools work hard with these children so that they are not left feeling a victim! Every circumstance is different and yes, some children will not take part in performances due to circumstances ... But most schools will move heaven and earth to do what they can for them, ranging from inventing characters which require costumes covering faces, etc through to choice of play / performance itself. Back to reality though ... the restriction on pictures is not just for children where particular attention is needed, but a number of parents out there are also concerned that the lack of control of their children's images could create future issues ... everything has moved on so fast that we just don't know what the impact may be ... so some people want to go a bit slower whilst society tries to work through things. They are not Luddites or wanting to stop progress ... they just want to be able to look at all the options and make their *own* choice rather than one forced on them by others ... especially when it's being forced by the social media companies themselves ... who may be a little biased about what they want you to do with you information. The premise of education rather than banning attempts to try to support that. No one said it would be easy, or that it wouldn't involve hard conversations with some families, but it is part of a larger drive to provide eSafety advice to families.

Do we have evidence that Google scan and process the picture for any contained meta-data or facial recognition as part of this?

@jmak another option is to ban parent photos but have an official photographer, who can take individual pics or can blur out those others in group pics when they are ordered. It makes it expensive to order photos and you need a good photographer (or team) who has experience to make the most of it. A small profit from photos can also be made to put into the PTA funds too, including use of a hardship fund for parents who cannot afford things. That way, you are allowing access to photos but still protecting things

From the page I linked to. FB are clear that you own the information (including photos) unless you give FB to share with others then they won't, however they will process it themselves so they can offer you services, push adverts, etc. You are allowing a 3rd party process information for the purpose of pushing services to you. Remember that the ICO example is of personal use being a family photo album. Please point out where the use of the information by 3rd parties to push services to you is counted as personal use? You are also allowing the information of others (I.e. Other children in the photo) to be processed too.

https://m.facebook.com/policy?page=info talks about how it uses information you share as well as other information it collects.

No they are not. You are handing over control to an organisation that may process them for things other than just sharing with personal connections. FB don't argue ownership, but they do say they will process *a lot* of information you provide including photos and meta-data.

What can you do if already being shared online? Very little unless you had a policy in place stating what you can and can't do. There are some good example policies put there and they do mention social media (will dig out over the weekend), but as far as the ICO is concerned there is personal use (for sharing between you and your family friends) and official use. If the parent is sharing via a system where you are subject to T&Cs where you may not have complete ownership or the full expectation of control then there are possible ... Which is why most policies will state that the pictures / videos are for personal use and not to be shared via social media, e.g. By uploading to Facebook or via Twitter. Most of the social networks will state that you own the media, but they have rights to process and do certain things with it ... Including things outside of your control. A photo set as a profile picture or cover photo is *always* public ... and so no longer 'personal' There's no legal reason for a school to enforce a ban in a school due to DPA on its own (I.e. Considering the photo as an item of personal information on its own merits), but the school may have a high proportion of children that are looked after, or formerly looked after, and the management of the risk on this is too high for a school to reasonably manage or for parents to be reasonably expected to follow specific instructions (e.g. Before sharing always blur out faces of other children, make sure you zoom in to your child's face only, etc)... and so the school's duty of care says it has to set restrictions on what can be done. That may mean a ban. A risk assessment should have taken place about this before the decision was made. If the ticket purchased for the event said no photos, then they are in breach of contract but you get into legal stickiness at this point and the lawyers come in to earn a pretty penny and start stating about how large and clear signs were needed, etc. If the performance has copyright implications then there is that to considered ... But again see the above about legal murkiness! If the photos contain a child where there is a clear court order in place then it can be reported to FB and removed as per their policies of following court instructions and UK Safer Internet Centre are good folk to talk with about this. Some schools do the public shaming route where they announce a full scale review of the policy of allowing photos due to persistent issues related to where and how they are shared ... getting the PTA involved at that point can be handy as *they* can be the tool of righteous indignation instead of you / the Head / etc. That sometimes gets the offending parents to back down. Running eSafety sessions for parents to educate rather than rap on the knuckles is also good for changing things around. Sorry if it is not the cast iron answer you were hoping for, but hopefully it gives something to work on for the future.

Schools will have a 5 year school dev plan, documented and published ... good schools go up to 15 years, but a bunch of that will be based on receiving information and decision points in earlier years. In reality a 5 year plans goes like this. Year 1 - All the targets line up and being worked on ... several will finish in that year and produce information for decisions about years 2-5. Not much movement in the plan unless something surprising comes up like another local school is closed and you get asked to take on most of the kids, etc. Year 2 - Targets are starting to move as the data comes in and draft adjustments are made for future years. Large presumptions on years 5-10 start getting RAG on them. Year 3 - Full review on what has and hasn't worked, with large adjustments to either improve (increase or decrease) original targets and to formally introduce additional targets. Worked started on fleshing out Years 6-8. Year 4 - Ofsted will have been in probably twice by the end of this year so targets are are either met or changed. Local dependencies takes into consideration in firming up years 6-9 Year 5 - The coasting year ... either you made it or you haven't. If you have made it then you get to formally sign off years 6-10, and rescope things in 11-15. If you haven't made it then you do a major cyclic evaluation, get support from a variety of sources and rip up years 6-8 and start again. The aims for year 3-5 should be in there, but with a few of the original 6-8 areas too ... to try to get back on track for year 9. This is a very simplified version, and most for in business will recognise the process too ... just because it is education it doesn't mean it it is that different. Shareholders can be just as fickle as governments when it comes to strategies and targets. Consumers as mystifying as parents!

Are we talking IT development plan or school development plan? You can only consider the IT one once you have the school one. After all, if the school dev plan talks about opening multiple campuses, running as a teaching school, etc then possible requirements will differ. The school development plan will also have to be based on the LA / County plan around what the expected growth is of your are, including economic and non-economic migrants, rate of birth, the family bubble (where families are not moving out of a central urban area once they start having children), etc ... Oh, and then throw in about what impact do you have to take into account for OFSTED's requirements on evidence of learning when more of it is done digitally ... You can throw a bunch more queries and dependencies in if you want ...

And if you are interested in a SharePoint solution, which can tie in with O365 ... (Usually declaration of interest and expecting a slapped wrist for selling!) ;-)

Sorry about not spotting this earlier. Best thing to do is to drop a line to the Hwb Team at the Welsh Government for queries on O365. [email protected]

I think the phrase is GeekHerding ... like cat herding, but more prone to distractions when someone mentions an interesting linux bistro running a plasma screen or everyone gathering around to look at a BSoD on a train announcement screen.

Placed in here for maximum coverage. Announced in the recent NAACE newsletter the ICO is running a survey for schools about cloud computing, with the option to join a forum about it at the end. From Allison Allen, one of the Naace Board. Personally I would suggest you get your Head, your timetable, your data manager, your head of ICT/CS and anyone else you think relevant to respond to it to make sure that the ICO has as clear a picture as possible about what people do or don't know.

Nominet allow registration of .sch.uk domains for cluster of schools working together, so this can be done for academy groups. Schools | Nominet gives you the info on registering a domain for an individual school with Nominet. If you call the customer service desk (number on the above link too) they will talk you through registering on behalf of cluster, and you will need to give the full list of schools with authoritative contact (i.e. Head), administrative and technical contacts. You can also work through a registrar to do this, and a number of members have worked with CS New Media on this.