Safeguarding

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Your review will be full of key hints and tips to help you appraise how well prepared your school is today.
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Online safety is part of safeguarding and it is recommended that there be some inclusion of online safety within the Safeguarding Policy. With regard to the actual Online Safety Policy, it is suggested that a structured, modular approach be adopted, having an overarching Online Safety Policy (which is short and easy to review) with separate but linked individual short sub-policies such as Information Advice and Guidance (IAG). It will be these latter ones that are likely to need frequent updating.
Once in place it is important that policies, (IAG) are well managed, and that all stakeholders are familiar with them and apply them appropriately. This may include specific training or just advisory sessions. It may be useful to include student representation in the review process thereby helping the whole school to own and understand why policies and guidance are in place.
Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) may need revising and signing by the parties involved. This may include any Home/School agreements that refer to the use of technology.
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Any safeguarding issues that occur which include online safety should be dealt with according to the Safeguarding Policies currently in place. These policies may need to be amended/cross-referenced as necessary.
Sometimes incidents arise from a number of smaller issues that start occurring more frequently. It can be beneficial to continue to record such issues and perhaps look at established pattern of incidents and seeing if more serious incidents can be prevented from happening by adding interventions with all school stakeholders.
The implementation of Whisper from the Boost package will give parents and students another way of reporting issues to the right people within school.
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Parents/carers can sometimes be more challenging to engage. The school can continue to use every formal and informal opportunity to raise issues and discuss concerns as well as signposting to the numerous parent resources available. As suggested this may include Information sessions as part of a Parent evening, QR codes at the locations where parents congregate (Reception etc) or alternatively a section on the school newsletter focusing on online safety.
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Any safeguarding issues that occur regarding online safety should be dealt with according to the Safeguarding policies in place currently. These policies may need to be amended/cross-referenced as necessary.
It is recommended that all schools use a flowchart incident management diagram. This can be displayed in the staff room, making sure staff are familiar with what they need to do in the event of an online safety incident.
Having anonymous reporting tools on your school website can also be used to give students, parents and staff another avenue to report incidents, such as Whisper.
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It is essential that schools have monitoring in place to complement the filtering (Ofsted, DfE, Prevent). Monitoring will highlight themes that can then be addressed through online safety training with staff, students and parents.