Online Safety
Lacon Childe School follows clear guidance for how we keep children safe online in our Safeguarding/Child Protection Policy and our E Safety Policy, this includes our filtering and monitoring arrangements in place.
How can you protect your child online?
If you understand the internet and understand what the risks are, there are a number of things you can do that will make your child safer online. Below you will find a list of some websites you can visit to find out more . ..
In school, we have a very clear internet safety policy and each year all students are educated how to stay safe online.
For those parents/carers who are concerned about their children’s safety or the internet, the following sites provide useful advice:
| Report Remove | Childline | Report Remove is a tool to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet. |
| UK Safer Internet Centre | This site explains how to report and remove harmful online content. |
| London Grid for Learning | Offers a number of safeguarding videos designed to show parents and carers how to keep their children safe online and the potential dangers they face. |
| Vodafone’s digital parenting checklist | This site provide straightforward, age related advice to help you keep your son/daughter safe when using different devices on the internet. |
| Parent’s guide to Technology by the UK Safer Internet Society | This guide has been created to answer your questions about some of the most popular devices, highlighting the safety tools available and giving you with the knowledge you need to support your children to use these technologies safely and responsibly. |
| National Online Safety | This site provides information on how to lock down different networks and guides which are app specific. It contains a useful guide to Houseparty, the ‘face to face social network’ which has become the most downloaded app since social isolation was introduced. |
| Think you know | This site answers common questions regarding risks a student may face and tools to help keep them safe. |
| The CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) website | Here, you can find out the latest information about the sites young people like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what’s good, what’s not and what you can do about it. Most importantly, there’s also a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online. They also share useful articles about helping teenagers cope with lockdown whilst protecting them online. |
| Childline | The website offers a wealth of support for a whole range of issues including online and mobile safety. |
| Internet Matters | This website offers expert support and practical tips to help young people benefit from connected technology and the internet safely and smartly. |
| Chat Danger | Advice for parents and carers on keeping their child safe online, including parental controls. |
| App support | There are also free apps that parents/carers can use to control internet access on their children’s mobile devices: |
Reporting To School
If you have any problems at School, at Home or with your family or friends in relation to E-safety , please let us know at school. We are here to support you and we will do whatever we can to help and keep students safe.
CEOP
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is the UK’s national child protection agency (visit www.ceop.police.uk for more information). CEOP believe the start of the new school year is the perfect time to speak to your child about how they use the internet and how they can stay safe online.
Through the ClickCEOP advice and help centre, members of the public can access guidance on a broad range of topics to help protect their children, or alternatively report a concern directly to CEOP.
When should I report to CEOP?
CEOP children stay safe online. Has someone acted inappropriately towards you online, or to a child or young person you know? It may be sexual chat, being asked to do something that makes you feel uncomfortable or someone being insistent on meeting up. You can report it to CEOP below.
Screen time
Putting a healthy limit on how much their teens spend on their phones (and on social media) continues to be a big challenge. Please see link to useful tips and advice on healthy gadget use, alternative tech for learning, creativity, and discovery, and how parents/carers can encourage a balanced screen time ‘diet’ with their teens.