Graham Tilby
Divisional Manager –
Safeguarding & Review
(Chair of Dudley’s e-safety strategy group)
Shirley Hackett
Education Improvement
Advisor - ICT
Directorate of Children’s
Services

Developing our strategy
The challenges within schools
Parents education
Our achievements
ESCape Project
Next Steps and success factors

Engaging the right stakeholders & partners – Children’s Services (ICT,
Safeguarding, Education, Schools, Youth
Service), Primary Care Trust, Mental Health
Acute Trust, Connexions, Police, Community
Safety, Libraries, Stop it Now! Black Country &
Birmingham,
Parent Lay Advisors , Young Person
(CEOP Youth Panel), …
Be visionary – mission statement & strategic objectives
Set Realistic Targets – monitor & evaluate
Dudley Safeguarding Children Board is committed to engaging and empowering children and young people so they can stay safe from harm, exploitation & abuse and from bullying in the real world & virtual world

ICT in Schools &
Colleges
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January 2006 ………………. 17000 new web sites every day
April 2007 ……………….
1million new websites every day
January 2008 ……………….
5.4 million new web sites every day

For young people ICT is not a novelty but the way they engage with their world - 21 st century culture
Communication via email, chat rooms and message boards,
IM, SMS, weblogs, social networks, Skype, podcasting……..
Entertainment – watching films on DVD, downloading music, playing games, taking, storage and retrieval of digital images.
Education – research, word processing, data manipulation, modelling, design, WIKIs, creativity, recording thoughts
Personal management – diary, appointment calendars and address books, alarm clock and personal reminders, finding the best party locations!
For shopping
………………..all at the same time!

The net is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea – massive, difficult to redirect, aweinspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Author: Rob
Stampfli

Common network - fully managed service
Firewalls – Filtering - Monitoring
Acceptable Use Policies and Guidance
Training
Working with others – DSCB, police
Provide schools with a range of tools to help

Every Child Matters
Media Literacy – new national curriculum
ICT Mark and Schools Ofsted SEF
Learning Platform
Escape
Ice
Every Child Matters
Change for Children

Who is responsible for teaching e-safety?
• ICT Child Protection PSHE – where does it fit?
What do you teach?
At what age should internet safety lessons start?
How can parents be involved?
Advent of 3G and ‘mobile internet’
Data security – PASSWORDS!
External issues being brought into school e.g. cyberbullying
Protection for staff – AUP’s

ICT in Schools &
Colleges
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s afety strategy
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New technologies in Public Spaces e ducation all children, young people & parents/carers are equipped with the knowledge & skills to safeguard themselves online s afety all adults who work with children & young people have access to effective training, good policies and safe systems
Dudley’s ‘e.safety’
Strategy Group

Hill Crest Community School – training of all staff in basic child protection & e-safety in April 2006
Professionals walk away as ‘parents/carers’
Some parents don’t feel its their business
Language is key
Parents are surprisingly naïve
Victim disclosures
Trainers need privileged internet access
It’s a lot of effort but worth it!

Trained over 1,000 professionals via 1-day multi-agency course or
2-3 e-safety sessions (e-safety trainers)
Children & young people have received e-safety lessons as part of
PHSE (using CEOP & other resources)
Delivered e-safety sessions to over 600 parents/carers, including foster carers
Delivered e-safety awareness to Imams from local mosques
Distributed over 2,000 Stop it Now! internet safety leaflets across
Dudley and over 8,000 across the Black Country
Distributed nearly 30,000 Parenting Handbooks (includes a chapter on e-safety)
Produced a leaflet with young people for young people in respect of cyberbullying and internet (Community Safety)

Several features in the local press, radio, cinemas and magazines on internet safety
Distributed ‘Know it all’ DVD to parents via schools
Internet safety included within Libraries ‘Safety Week’
Comprehensively revised safeguarding procedures in respect of new technologies
DSCB Bi-Annual Conference featured internet safety as one of its main themes
14 people trained as CEOP Ambassadors across ICT and safeguarding specialisms
Produced esafer newsletter for children’s workforce signposting national & local resources & developments and summary of Byron
Review for agencies & schools

Could the following situations occur in Dudley?
‘Staff subject to cyber bullying attacks by their
Year 6 pupils’
‘Teacher downloading adult pornography on the schools laptop’
‘12 year-old arranges to meet adult who has been sending her sexually explicit texts’
‘Teacher grooms child online whilst sexually abusing another child in his school’
‘Mobile phone used to video oral sex between pupils – images put on website’
‘14 yr-old male ’sagging’ on You Tube’
Unfortunately, they already have…

a public, private & voluntary sector collaboration
Partnership Commissioned by Dudley e-safety strategy group, funded by Dudley Grid for Learning & RM and produced & delivered by The Saltmine Trust
Performed in 60 Dudley Schools (around 10,000 pupils) and the Edinburgh Festival – predominantly primary (Years 4-6)
Accompanied by E-Safety Resource Pack – follow-up materials and signposting further resources
ESCape DVD Film Production & Competition – resource to schools & LSCBs
Short-listed for a national Children & Young People Now
Stay Safe Award –
20 th November 2008

Cyberbullying Workshop – ‘ Lets fight it together ’ - during Anti-
Bullying Week involving young people & adults (November 2008)
Launch of ESCape DVD & development of ‘ e-safety pledge ’ on
Internet Safety Day (February 2009)
Review of e-safety strategy incorporating feedback from schools questionnaires & measures for evaluation
(by end of March 2009)
Continued development of ICE & NICE
Targeted training for parents/carers and improved responses to children who have been harmed and adults who present a risk

No-one individual or agency can do it alone!
Spend some time working out who the key players are and engage them – look for people with passion!
Hill Crest School
Adopt an approach which promotes consistency but allows for th June 2006 flexibility!
Make awareness & education a priority in all that you do!
Develop a range of activities, use the media and be creative!
Keep one eye on the future whilst accepting that you will often feel like you are in the past!
Don’t view the real and virtual as separate worlds!

graham.tilby@dudley.gov.uk
shirley.hackett@dudley.gov.uk
http://safeguardingchildren.dudley.gov.u
k www.stopitnow.org.uk
The Saltmine Trust
Creative@saltmine.org
www.saltmine.org.uk
01384 454807