Internet SafetyInternet Safety

Parents / Carers EveningParents / Carers Evening

Gairloch High SchoolGairloch High School

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Sweet 16! How the internet has come of age!

What are the benefits for us all?

What are the dangers for us all?

What a some of the key issues for young people?

Planned programmes in Highland schools

What you can do to help safeguard your children

Further links and open question time

Tonight…in Gairloch Tonight…in Gairloch High School…High School…

Coming of Age - Web 2.0

“In a dizzying, energising and raucous return to the pamphleteering days of the 18th and 19th centuries, the people have, through the worldwide web and easy-to-use publishing software, been given a voice… They will not easily be silenced”.

The ScotsmanThe Scotsman

Source: The Scotsman Exposing the Exclusive 16Source: The Scotsman Exposing the Exclusive 16thth September 2004 September 2004

93% of children use a computer and a phone

8 out of 10 teenagers have a PC, mobile phone and a game.

1,400,000 UK pupils have their own web space

There are 200 million registered users of Myspace

There are 2.7 billion searches on Google each month

The number of text messages sent every day exceeds the population of the planet!

More than ever before people use the internet as part of their daily life.

Facts and Figures - Facts and Figures - September 2007September 2007

Source: www.schoolzone.co.uk & www.1ps.k12.co.usSource: www.schoolzone.co.uk & www.1ps.k12.co.us

What do you think the benefits are?

Keeping in touch with friends / family old and new

Learning, researching and self-expression

Vital information sometimes inaccessible in rural areas

Homework! Learning collaboratively

Keeping up with perspectives on the news, global events

Commercial opportunities

Games, hobbies, leisure and belonging

Quickness of communication, emails.

SHOPPING! Music!

Benefits of the InternetBenefits of the Internet

Why the need for safety?Why the need for safety?

What do you think are the biggest risks?

Commercial risks – Fraud, viruses and Phishing

Content risks – where has information come from?

Personal safety and security - meeting people

Psychological harm through bullying and ridicule

Peer preference, seeking relationships

Future risks, it may come back to bite you!

Increasing mobile technology

School, Home and Mobile AccessSchool, Home and Mobile Access

School / Library / Community Facilities

Fixed location, possibly laptops / WiFi. School filtering policies aim to create a safer environment, they also tend to be supervised. Information about How to keep safe provided. School policies and procedures in place.

Home

Fixed location, possibly laptops/WiFi. May not have filtering programmes in place, especially internet landline phones, gaming consoles, even the satellite television viewing box.

Mobile

Increasing access with 3G coverage, mobile phones with no levels of filtering and increased privacy in use. Costs are coming down with free texts deals and Internet access with instant Messenger, Bluetooth.

Educating Young People no matter where they are accessing Educating Young People no matter where they are accessing the internetthe internet

Child Exploitation and Online Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP)Protection (CEOP)

Source: CEOP Corporate VideoSource: CEOP Corporate Video

Child Exploitation and Online Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)Protection Centre (CEOP)

Harm Reduction – Education, training courses and public awareness, international, child trafficking Safer by design.

Intelligence – Referrals desk, Assessment, Disseminations, Offender Management, Travelling Offenders, Missing Offenders.

Operations – Forensics Unit, Joint investigations, Financial desk, Covert capability, Victim identification.

Source: Virtual Global TaskforceSource: Virtual Global Taskforce

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Key issuesKey issues

Friends or Frenemies?Friends or Frenemies?

Key issuesKey issues

Real or Virtual?Real or Virtual?

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Ensuring Young People Ensuring Young People know how to report know how to report concernsconcerns

Signs of normal teenage Signs of normal teenage behaviour or more?behaviour or more?

Secretive behaviour, spending hours online but switching off the screen whenever another adult is within sight

Changes in behaviour, feelings of elation or upset after spending time on the internet

Excessive anger or frustration at not being able to access the internet at certain times

Change in use of appearance for using webcams, dressing or looking older

Sudden change in language – sexual nature

What can parents do?What can parents do?

Keep communication open, what sites interest them, sharing favourite sites for information and shopping. Remember the benefits above all else.

Ask them to explain to you how new sites work, they have grown up with the internet!

Keep a family email address for use to sign up to sites rather than their own. Remind them of giving out personal details.

Keep a spam filter for emails, remind them of ‘special offer or prize’ emails. “If it looks too good to be true it usually is!” Question any unsolicited mail.

What can parents do?What can parents do?

Keep a family PC in a safer location, laptops and wireless are much more common nowadays. Apply control settings and virus tools. Set your own ground-rules for using webcams

Why not have a family understanding about personal information about self and others

Illegally downloading from sites is not only breaking the law, it can lead to accessing files contain unpleasant unexpected pictures.

Remind children if they want to meet someone offline, NEVER go without a trusted adult.

It’s never too late to report something and no-one will judge your child or you.

Useful links and ResourcesUseful links and Resources

www.thinkuknow.co.uk (parents section)

www.childnet-int.org (special parents section & leaflets for download) (CD resource for schools)

www.forhighlandschildren.org

www.ssf-project.org.uk

www.protectinghighlandschildren.org

www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk

www.youngpeoplesafeonline.com

www.getnetwise.com

Check your school website and speak to school staff

Balancing the internetBalancing the internet

Thank you Louise & JimThank you Louise & Jim