Keeping Children Safe

The curriculum e-Safety solution for Schools and Parents

Contents

• Children’s access to online content and social apps

• How the curriculum and Ofsted are attempting to deal with this

• Schools’ purchases of tablet devices going forward

• Keeping children safe on those devices, in school and beyond

• How Point2Protect can help

The whole world in their hands…

…but how do we(a) keep them safe and (b) help them become

sophisticated users of these powerful communication tools?

A growing problem?

“Young people should be able to enjoy technology and social media without feeling under threat. Providers need to make it as easy to prohibit harmful messages or images as it is to share them.” NSPCC

“The problem of 'sexting' - and the exposure of children to pornographic images through mobile devices - poses real and serious challenges for parents, head teachers and school staff. It exemplifies the way technology blurs the boundaries between school life and the wider world.“ National Association of Head Teachers

So let’s just block it at source!

• David Cameron said in July 2013 he would force the big four ISP’s to enable parents to block access to dangerous content• The percentage of customers taking up the option for each service

provider are as follows*:• Virgin Media - 4%• BT - 5%• Sky - 8%• TalkTalk - 36%

*Ofcom July 2014

A child quoted in the Byron Review 2008“Kids don’t need protection - we need guidance. If you protect us you are making us weaker. We won’t go through all the trial and error necessary to learn what we need to survive on our own…don’t fight our battles for us, just give us assistance when we need it.”

e-Safety in the curriculum

• Only in 2009, after the Byron Review (2008) and Lord Laming’s Review (2009), does e-Safety start to appear in the KS3 and KS4 curriculum• Ofsted begin to consider e-Safety provision in inspections• Computing Programmes of Study for Sept 2014 include e-Safety from

KS1 through to KS4• This suggests that e-Safety should now be a taught subject in primary

and secondary schools• But non-maintained schools aren’t required to adopt this

Computing Programmes of Study 2014• Key Stage 1 - use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private;

identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.

• Key Stage 2 - use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

• Key Stage 3 - understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting their online identity and privacy; recognise inappropriate content, contact and conduct and know how to report concerns.

• Key Stage 4 - understand how changes in technology affect safety, including new ways to protect their online privacy and identity, and how to identify and report a range of concerns.

Ofsted inspection criteria

• School should offer (among other things):• All teaching and non-teaching staff receive regular

and up-to-date training• An age-appropriate e-safety curriculum teaching

pupils how to stay safe and take responsibility for their own and others’ safety. Uses positive rewards and peer mentoring programmes• Recognised Internet Service Provider (ISP) or Regional

Broadband Consortium (RBC) together with age-related filtering that is actively monitored

Devices, devices, devices…

• By 2020 schools expect tablets to make up over 50% of their ICT hardware*• iOS and Android are the most

popular tablet options• Smartphones in schools mainly

Android with fewer iPhones*BESA research 2014

Mobile phones - Daily Mail September 2008“Academics* are calling on schools to rethink bans on phone handsets after trials suggested that functions such as calculators, stopwatches and email can be 'educational'.

However, the call is certain to infuriate many teachers and parents, who will be concerned that pupils will be unable to resist the temptation to put the devices to less productive uses, such as cyber-bullying or cheating in tests.”

The Daily Mail view

*University of Nottingham study for BECTA

Smartphone dangers• Almost 1 in 5 children say they have seen something on their phone

that has upset them• Over 20% of parents admit they aren’t really aware of what their

children do online• While 90% of parents claim to have spoken to their children about

online dangers, most allow unsupervised access to the internetBBC Learning Poll 2013

• “A common misconception that smartphones and tablets don’t need the same level of protection as a PC.”

Kaspersky Labs 2014

Typical e-Safety in schools 2014

• Increasing spend on tablet computers with little idea how they’re being used in school and no idea out of school• Most schools ban the use of pupils’ mobile phones on their premises• School network web-filtering used to block, stop and defend• Teachers often have an single annual e-Safety CPD course• Very little formal e-Safety teaching for pupils• Parents aren’t engaged apart from agreeing an Acceptable Use Policy

(AUP) that they probably don’t even read properly

Two key areas to be addressed

• Security• Filtering for mobile devices in

school, on and off domain• Schools should be able to control

app-usage on tablets and phones, on and off domain• School-owned devices should be

protected whether in school or at home• BYOD needs to be included in this

secure environment

• e-Safety• New AUPs are required with

proper buy-in from parents and pupils• Schools need to understand how

tablets are being used, on and off domain• Understanding needs to lead to

engagement with pupils• Parents need to be given the

option to join the party

Point2Protect – a new service for schools• Qustodio for Schools• Filtering and app scheduling by

profile on tablets and smart phones, on and off domain• Summary reporting on devices by

group (i.e. year 7 tablets) or detail on any single device• Provides understanding without

intrusive detail (i.e. doesn’t read text messages, etc.)

• UK Safer Internet Centre• Templates for new AUP for schools• Templates for communication to

the school community• Guidance for SMT and Governors

on e-Safety• Guidance for teachers on

understanding and engaging with pupils• Guidance for parents that schools

can pass on

Point2Protect - the parent link

• Schools can give parents full access to their children’s data• Parents can choose to extend

security and scheduling across all devices at home, creating their own usage profile• UK SIC guidance specifically

aimed at parental engagement with children