E-Safety Awareness Meeting for Parents and Carers

1. E-Safety Awareness Meeting for Parents and Carers Helping to keep your children safe online

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3. Welcome! A key skill for life Accessed anywhere anytime Wide and flexible range of information Easy to communicate with friends and family Motivational and fun Raise standards Why use ICT?

4. Aims of this session • Look at how children are using the Internet • Raise awareness of e-Safety issues • Consider ways of supporting parents/carers • Offer guidance on keeping your child safe Promote the positive Respond to the negative

5. Parents / Carers e-mail Shopping Booking holidays Research Young people Music Games Chat Instant Messaging IM Blogs Social Networking How we use these technologies Are you one of the 28% of parents who use the internet and describe themselves as beginners? 7% of children describe themselves as beginners

6. Upload Create Personal Converged media Interactive Moving on…… (Parents / Carers) Young people web2 Download Consume “Corporate” Separate media Static

7. Some of the technologies…… Mobile phones Instant messaging What next ??? Social networking BLOGS E-mail Music Download sites Gaming sites Podcasting Wikies Chat Rooms P2P file-sharing Video broadcasting Text

8. Mobile phones Anytime  Anywhere Text messages Camera phones Internet access e-mail MP3 player Chat and IM Downloads Mobile TV

9. Supervised Monitored Filtered Curriculum School Outside of school ?

10. SAFE – Keep safe by being careful not to give out personal information – including full name and email address - to people who you don’t trust online. MEETING – Meeting up with someone you have only been in touch with online can be dangerous. Only do so with your parent’s/carer’s permission and even then only when they can be present. ACCEPTING – Accepting e-mails, IM messages or opening files from people you don’t know can be dangerous – they may contain viruses or nasty messages! RELIABLE – Someone online may be lying about who they are, and information you find on the internet may not be true. Check information and advice on other websites, in books or ask someone who may know. TELL – Tell your parent/carer or teacher if someone or something makes you feel uncomfortable or worried, or you or someone you know is being cyberbullied. SMART rules

11. Potential risks 73% of online adverts are not clearly labelled making it difficult for children and adults to recognise them 57% of 9-19 yr olds have come into contact with online pornography accidentally. 4 in 10 pupils aged 9-19 trust most of the information on the internet. 1/3 of young people have received unwanted sexual or nasty comments online. Only 7% of parents think their child has received such comments. Content Contact Commerce • Privacy • Advertising & information • Invasive software • Inaccurate and harmful • Adult content • Illegal content • Inappropriate contact • Cyberbullying • Sex offenders

12. Contact risks • Social networking sites • Instant messaging • P2P (filesharing) • Multi-user online games • Chat rooms Your children may have their own mobile phone, email account or social network page, so it is important they know what to do if things go wrong. 1. Do not delete the message 2. Don’t show the message to other children 3. Go to an adult to tell them, not a friend 4. Do not respond to any messages

13. Why is education so important? • Biggest danger is the not knowing – • 26% of parents can’t check website history • 65% of young people can clear internet history • 65% of parents can deny access to specific websites • 46% of children can get round parental blocks • 33% of children have met a ‘friend’ online • 8% have had a face-to-face meeting with an online friend • 89% told someone they were doing so UK Children Go Online, 2005, 9-19 year olds Usage and experiences are often not reported to parents/teachers as they interfere with access CEOP video designed for 8-10yr olds shown to Upper School 55% access the internet everyday 47% for an hour or more 21% liked IM/Chat the most 15% used gaming sites 33% had access in their bedrooms 25% have met someone offline 83% have taken a friend (CEOP, 2007)

14. What is Cyberbullying? Threats Manipulation Hacking Exclusion Prejudice Public postings Stalking Guidance from Digizen website

15. Differences • 24/7 contact • No escape at home • Impact Massive potential audience reached rapidly. Potentially stay online forever • Perception of anonymity • More likely to say things online • Profile of target/bully Physical intimidation changed • Some cases are unintentionalBystander effect • Evidence Inherent reporting proof

16. Advice for parents Be careful about denying access to the technology Discuss cyberbullying with your children- always respect others- treat your passwords with care- block/delete contacts & save conversations - don’t reply/retaliate - save evidence - make sure you tell How to report something unpleasant- school (e-Safety officer Mr De Silva)- service provider- police Let's fight it together film by Childnet

17. Primary pupils as likely as secondary to access inappropriate material • Year 9 girls most susceptible to ‘grooming’ • Year 6, 10 and 11 most likely to plagiarise (boys more commonly than girls) • Mainly known unknowns • We do know that all users of these technologies can be traced and organisations such as: • Internet Watch Foundation • Child Exploitation and Online Protection Service • work to monitor, detect and prosecute those individuals whose aim is to harm our children.

18. Like to post images and reveal some information about themselves • Want lots of ‘friends’ • Talk about their peers – can be hostile • Use inappropriate nicknames, often sexual • Express insecurities and fantasies • Trick others to make silly, embarrassing, dangerous acts with video or webcam • Push boundaries - just as we pushed the boundaries as children

19. Know where to report Content Contact Commerce www.ceop.gov.uk www.thinkuknow.co.uk www.phonepayplus.org.uk + your operator + your Internet Service Provider www.iwf.org.uk

20. Home and Family Guidelines • Practical principles Talk with, NOT at your children. Agree family guidelines and rules. Regularly discuss online safety. • Infrastructure Virus and firewall software up-to-date, Browser ‘safe search’ enabled. • Education Learn & reflect together the benefits, dangers and potential of new technologies and enjoy! Watch the CEOP films together. Encourage your child to protect their personal information. • Systems Keep webcams in family rooms (ideally!) Monitor time spent on the Internet. View the ‘History’ or purchase filtering software. Have proportionate responses to problems. Your child will not tell you about a problem if they feel their access to the technologies will be restricted.

21. Mobile phone advice Know how your child’s phone works (e.g. Bluetooth, Internet access)  Agree the type of content that you would be happy for them to download, knowingly receive or send on to others Save any abusive messages/inappropriate images for evidence purposes Decide together what is acceptable Encourage balanced use – switching off at mealtimes, bedtime.

22. Checklist of questions for mobiles Mobile Operators Code of Practice Services to protect children that operators are committed to including. Childnet’s Checklist for parents To help parents ensure that these protections are in place. Questions include: How can I turn Bluetooth off? Can I put a bar on premium numbers?

23. Useful links can be found on our school website http://www.fairoakjunior.co.uk/online-safety/

24. and finally remember…. ‘..the risks do not merit a moral panic, and nor do they warrant seriously restricting children’s internet use because this would deny them the many benefits of the internet. Indeed, there are real costs to lacking internet access or sufficient skills to use it.’ ‘However, the risks are nonetheless widespread, they are experienced by many children as worrying or problematic, and they do warrant serious intervention by government, educators, industry and parents.’ http://www.children-go-online.net/ E-Safety won’t stop here. At Fair Oak Junior School we will continue to deliver the safest environment for your children to engage with the Internet and all the benefits it brings.