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e-Safety and Ofsted:

Is your School Ready for Inspection?

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Why e-Safety & why now?

e-Safety is the school’s ability:

• to protect and educate pupils and staff in their use of

technology

• to have the appropriate mechanisms to intervene and

support any incident where appropriate.

• Many incidents happen beyond the physical boundaries

of the school but will impact on pupils or staff

• It is essential that pupils and staff are fully prepared and

supported to use these technologies responsibly.

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e-Safety and Ofsted

New School Inspection Framework

Areas relating to e-Safety include:

quality of leadership in and management of the school

provide a broad and balanced curriculum that: meets the needs of all

pupils… and promotes their good behaviour and safety and their spiritual,

moral, social and cultural development

engage with parents and carers in supporting pupils’ achievement,

behaviour and safety and their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development ensure that all pupils are safe

Behaviour and safety of pupils at the school

pupils’ behaviour towards, and respect for, other young people and adults,

including freedom from bullying and harassment that may include

cyber-bullying

pupils’ ability to assess and manage risk appropriately and to keep themselves safe

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“Inspecting e-Safety”

• “The safe use of new technologies” 2010

www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/090231

– evaluated the extent to which schools teach pupils to adopt safe

and responsible practices in using new technologies

– assessed training on internet safety for the staff in the schools

visited

– considered the schools’ links with families in terms of e-Safety

• Section 5 Briefing “Inspecting e-Safety” 2012

– Updated April 2013 & due to be updated frequently due to rapid

pace of change e-Safety

– Aims to support inspectors in reviewing school’s safeguarding

arrangements when carrying out section 5 inspections

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“Inspecting e-Safety” – Questions for SLT

• How do you ensure that

all

staff receive

appropriate online safety training that is

relevant

and regularly up to date

?

• What to look for:

– at least annual training (in-service or online) for all staff

– training content changes each session to reflect advances in

technology

– recognised group or committee or individual with e-Safety

responsibility

• Good or Outstanding:

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• What

mechanisms

does the school have in

place to support

pupils and staff

facing online

safety issues?

• What to look for:

– robust reporting channels

• Good or Outstanding:

– online reporting mechanism (for example SHARP)

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• How does the school

educate and support

parents

and whole school community with

online safety?

• What to look for:

– parents e-Safety sessions

– raising awareness through school website or newsletters

• Good or Outstanding:

– workshops for parents

– children teaching parents (for example at sessions or in

homework)

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• Does the school have

e-Safety policies and

acceptable use policies

in place? How does

the school know that they are

clear

and

understood and respected by all

?

• What to look for:

– e-Safety policy is regularly reviewed

– evidence that these are freely available (poster, handbooks, etc)

– Children/staff can recall rules

• Good or Outstanding:

– children integral to policy production

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• Describe how your school educates children and

young people to

build knowledge, skills and

capability

when it comes to online safety? How

do you

assess its effectiveness

?

• What to look for:

– school assemblies

– programmes delivered across all age groups

• Good or Outstanding:

– Peer Mentoring

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Inspecting e-Safety

Inadequate Practice:

Personal data is often unsecured and/or leaves school site

without encryption.

Security of passwords is ineffective, for example passwords

are shared or common with all but the youngest children.

Policies are generic and not updated.

There is no progressive, planned e-Safety education across

the curriculum, for example there is only an assembly held

annually.

There is no internet filtering or monitoring.

There is no evidence of staff training.

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Outstanding and Good Practice

• Whole school consistent approach

– All staff can recognise and are aware of e-Safety issues.

– High quality leadership and management make e-safety a priority across all areas of the school

– A high priority given to training in e-Safety, extending expertise widely and building internal capacity.

– The contribution of pupils, parents and the wider school community is valued and integrated.

• Robust and integrated reporting routines

– School-based online reporting processes that are clearly understood by the whole school, allowing the pupils to report issues to nominated staff, for example SHARP.

– Report Abuse buttons, for example CEOP. Clear, signposted and respected routes to key members of staff. Effective use of peer mentoring and support.

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Outstanding and Good Practice

• Staff

– All teaching and non-teaching staff receive regular and up-to-date training.

– At least one staff member has accredited training, for example CEOP, EPICT, Local Authority.

• Policies

– Rigorous e-Safety policies and procedures are in place, written in plain English, contributed to by the whole school, updated regularly and

ratified by governors.

– The e-Safety policy should be integrated with other relevant policies such as behaviour, safeguarding and anti-bullying.

– The e-Safety policy should incorporate an Acceptable Usage Policy that is signed by pupils and/or parents as well as all staff and respected by all.

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Outstanding and Good Practice

• Education

– A progressive curriculum that is flexible, relevant and engages pupils’ interest; that is used to promote e-Safety through teaching pupils how to stay safe, how to protect themselves from harm and how to take

responsibility for their own and others’ safety.

– Positive rewards are used to cultivate positive and responsible use. – Peer mentoring programmes.

– Safer Internet Day

• Infrastructure

– Recognised Internet Service Provider or RBC together with age/maturity related filtering that is actively monitored

.

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Outstanding and Good Practice

• Monitoring and Evaluation

– Risk assessment taken seriously and used to good effect in promoting e-Safety.

– Using data effectively to assess the impact of e-Safety practice and how this informs strategy.

• Management of Personal Data

– The impact level of personal data is understood and data is managed securely and in accordance with the statutory requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998.

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Are you Ofsted Ready?

• Next Steps:

• Audit current practice:

www.360safe.org.uk

• Identify e-Safety lead or committee (member of SLT) and key

tasks

• Training and support via e-Safety Officer and EiS

• Summary:

• e-Safety is about safeguarding, not technology

• e-Safety needs a whole school approach to be fully embedded

• “Protecting children whilst they are in our care and educating

them for when they are not”

Rebecca Avery

[email protected]

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