Internet - Child Safety

[Pipsqueak]

Went on Child safety on the internet tonight and it zero'd in on cyberbullying (including text). the statistics are shocking and very sad. (trying to find them - they are on the Ofcom website)

They are aiming for every school to have an acceptable use policy (AUP) of the Internet with a designated person for e-safety. Perhaps we can adapt this for our own settings. Its about recognising cyber/text bullying etc. Children who are being bought up in this digital age, as young as 5 can circumvent what we think is good precautions. Scary.

He was saying that cyber/text bulling can be reported to the police and also to your local safeguarding unit.

good websites that they have given us for further info is


http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk

and

www.childnet-int.org

www.ceop.gov.uk

[Pipsqueak]

check out these statistics in this report

head towards page 14 - 16 mainly (its a big document but makes for interesting reading)

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/telecoms/reports/byron/annex5.pdf




When asked whether they thought their child had given out personal details online,
9% of parents of 5-7 year olds and 23% of parents of 8-17 year olds said they
thought their child had done this. When children were asked whether they had given
out personal details online, 11% of 5-7 year olds and 36% of 8-17 year olds said yes
- rising to 61% of 16-17 year olds. Interestingly 71% of parents who use the internet
said they had given out personal details themselves. However, this may be due to
the differences in internet uses across the two groups, with parents more likely to use
banking facilities and to purchase goods/services online.



15% of parents of 8-17 year olds using filtering software say their child can unset or
bypass its controls. When children were asked whether or not they could override the
controls, a further gap between parents’ knowledge and what children say they can
do was highlighted - 33% of 8-17 year olds claimed they could bypass the controls.


http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/telecoms/reports/byron/