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Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:27 AM

The Safe Use of New Technologies - New Ofsted Report

On the 10th February 2010, Ofsted published its report: "The Safe Use of New Technologies". This report is based on evidence from a small-scale survey carried out between April and July 2009 in 35 maintained schools in England (Including a variety...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:54 AM

Kent Statement re the blocking of Sparklebox

It has been bought to Kent County Council's attention that many Local Authorities are blocking a teaching resource website: www.sparklebox.co.uk . Although this website is popular with schools, CEOP has issued a statement supporting both this action...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:29 PM

Ofcom: Young people want advice about online privacy and new Parental Guides available

Young People and Privacy Ofcom today published research showing 54 per cent of 11-16 year olds in the UK say young people need advice about how to keep their personal information online private. Many children and young people also believe that information...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:44 AM

NEW Attorney General’s Youth Network Program

An opportunity from CEOP for Young People (or those who work with them) aged 14-18: The Attorney General's Youth Network encourages young people to understand and respect the law, and contribute to citizenship education (including increasing understanding...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:47 PM

New look Teachtoday website launches

A collaboration of the world's leading communication providers including Buongiorno, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, GSM Association, Microsoft, MySpace, Orange FT Group, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Vodafone have re-launched the Teachtoday...
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Friday, June 19, 2009 11:41 AM

Childnet International Youth IGF Project

Childnet International are currently running the Youth IGF Project to capture the voice of children and young people to take to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) a UN mandated meeting in the Autumn. The IGF is a four day international gathering that...
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Friday, June 19, 2009 10:04 AM

The Children's Charities' Coalition for Internet Safety launch their Digital Manifesto

The Children's Charities Coalition on Internet Safety ( CHIS ) has launched its "Digital Manifesto", which it is sending to all the political parties represented in the Westminster Parliament, the Scottish Parliament and the Assemblies in...
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Monday, June 15, 2009 9:10 AM

EU Kids Online Final Report

The EU Kids Online Final report (Sonia Livingstone and Leslie Haddon) has been released. The report offers a balanced picture of issues in e-safety and promoting online opportunity for young people across Europe. The EU Kids Online project (2006-2009...
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Monday, June 08, 2009 11:40 AM

Ofsted responses to Laming inquiry and Singleton report

On 12 March, Lord Laming published his report T he Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report . The Government accepted all of his recommendations and has now published an action plan, setting out its detailed response. Schools should be aware...
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Friday, April 24, 2009 9:06 AM

New resource from Childnet: Know It All for Primary Schools

A new resource from Childnet International is now available: Know IT All for Primary Schools. This resource has been produced specifically for the primary sector with support from Becta, the TDA and the UK Council for Child Internet Safety; KIA for Primary...
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Friday, April 17, 2009 11:11 AM

New DCSF guidance on cyberbullying of school staff

On the 15th April, 2009 Childnet International and the DCFS launched new guidance on Cyberbullying in relation to ‘Supporting School Staff'. This new document builds on the 2007 Safe to Learn Cyberbullying guidance, and provides advice for employers...
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Friday, March 27, 2009 9:39 AM

UK Council for Child Internet Safety launches working groups

On March 26th 2009 Children's Minister Delyth Morgan announced the membership for four groups of professionals tasked with taking forward the work of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS). Formed in September 2008, UKCCIS is a forum of...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:24 AM

New EU proposals against Child Sex Abuse

The European Commission has set out plans to tighten EU law to protect children from online abuse. Announced by European Commission Vice President Jacques Barrot in charge of Justice, Freedom and Security, the proposals are aimed at replacing two existing...
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Monday, December 15, 2008 4:53 PM

A "youtube for all of us"?

Youtube has recently announced making changes “ the collective YouTube experience even better”. The aims of the new ideas from youtube are to ensure users find content that is relevant and appropriate and that inappropriate material is removed quickly...
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Monday, September 29, 2008 8:09 PM

UK Council for Child Internet Safety launched

The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) has been launched today wth the aim to help protect children from "harmful" web content, such as cyber-bullying and violent video games. The UK Council for Child Internet Safety wants to work...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:42 AM

DCSF publishes action plan to implement Byron Recommendations

Yesterday, 24th June 2008, the Government published an action plan detailing how the recommendations from March 2008s Byron Review will be implemented. The report was published by Children’s Minister Kevin Brennan, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker and...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:52 PM

Byron Review - The Next Steps

An announcement by the Government (See here ): "Kevin Brennan and Vernon Coaker today announced the UK Council for Child Internet Safety will launch in September 2008, six months ahead of the recommended timescale set out by Dr Tanya Byron in her...
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Friday, April 04, 2008 3:46 PM

Your Views required - e-Safety in Kent Schools

Due to the recent press attention and focus on e-Safety (See blog posts on New Home Office Proposals and The Byron Review ) I'm seeking opinions to see if readers feel that enough is being done in Kent and indeed in Kent Schools to consider these...
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Friday, April 04, 2008 9:46 AM

New Home Office Proposals on Internet Safety

The Home Office has made today new recommendations to improve safety for children on the internet. The package of new guidelines was developed in consultation with children's charities and social networking websites. It calls for Social Networking...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:56 AM

The Byron Review

A six month study which announces the first national strategy for child internet safety has been set out in a report for government today by Dr Tanya Byron named as "Safer Children in a Digital World" The report argues that the government and...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:14 AM

Todays Children are being "raised online"

A recent report by the Institute for Public Policy Research ( IPPR) ahead of the impending Byron review , which will be offical released later today, has uncovering some interesting figures about how much time and access today’s youth has to the internet...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:24 PM

Kent highlighted as a best practice case study in Becta e-safety publication!

Becta have produced a toolkit for Local Safeguarding Children Board's and LA's. The publication includes a case study detailing how Kent has developed its e-safety policy and practice. On a straight word-count, Kent gets 64 mentions, and provides clear...
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