Jul 19

Futurelab has launched  Infocow, “a free online resource to help young people fulfil their potential…. made for and run with young people aged around 14-19″

“The site links to resources of information for young people to help them find out what they’re entitled to or find the resources that can help them get what they want out of life.”

Jul 09

AntiBullying Week in November each year is a national camapaign, which give another opportunity to talk about e-safety.

This years campaign takes an extended look at the bystander effect: more details here

There is a “design a screen saver” competition for schools: closing date 30th July 2010, more details here

See also Cyberbullying

Jul 09

Kirklees Young People’s Service (YPS) have piloted the use of Facebook as a way of communicating with young people to organize meetings, consult and to inform them about things happening in their local areas. This pilot was successful and has been rolled out across the service – using locality and team profiles to communicate with young people in Kirklees.

Read more about the Facebook virtual panel

or more general advice on using social networking at work here

Jul 08

There are now some resources in BSL and Widget format available at

Childnet Special Educational Needs

Jun 15

Research, to be conducted across the UK, is being undertaken by the National Education Network (the UK collaborative network for on line education funded by government), and Lancaster University. 

It is in the form of  surveys,  directed at teachers and personnel in schools (head teachers, safeguarding officers, teachers, non-teaching staff, and governors), or at pupils, with different questions for each different age group (14-19, 12-14, 10-11, 8-9, and 5-7 years of age).

 To find out more, and to access the surveys here

 If you have any questions regarding the survey please contact Jeff Haslam jeff@cict.org.uk

All schools that arrange for pupils to take the survey can receive an analysis of the findings for their specific school.

Jun 14

In their latest bulletin, Ofcom have launched some resources to support media literacy education:

Media smart website                                                    Media literacy for beginners

Jun 14

Research Papers

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Heres a compot of  the latest research papers that set the scene for an  e-safety strategy in the UK

UKCCIS evidence review 2010

UKCCIS summary         UKCCIS details        OFCOM online access report

Learning in the Family report          DCSF report        Byron Progress report

EU Kids Online Report                      Their Space Demos report

The effect of  these and other papers is refered to in the KSCB e-safety strategy

The OSTWG Report 2010 also gives an interesting perspective from the US

May 17

Richard Allen, European Director for Facebook advises…..

……. Facebook has been phasing out open mailers like abuse@ because they have became devalued for serious reports as people have increasingly used them for a lot of non-abuse related queries as the address became known over time. 

Anyone emailing this address should be getting a clear set of instructions on the proper ways to report things which generally involve making a report using a link on the relevant profile or item of content.

The relevant information is also available in the help centre.  The best place to start off for particular issues is generally http://www.facebook.com/safety

…..there is a description of how to deal with hacked accounts at http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1011 and the easiest thing in most cases is for the student to recover their account by simple tool at http://www.facebook.com/reset.php

If they are no longer able to access the original email account for the account or it has been changed there is a different process at http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1025

Facebook will be revising the links on Teachtoday to ensure that there are appropriate references to the help centre advice.

(Taken from safetynet advisory email)

If you are a Facebook user you may also be interested to read about recent changes to the privacy of the service that have been annouced or the CEOP “bouncer” application for Facebook  you can download from here

May 05

Would you be surprised to  find 70% of young people thought hacking was uncool, but  26% have tried it, 36% have been hacked and 5% were considering it as a career move?

These are some of the results of an interesting vendor survey comparing teenage views about hacking in New York  USA with those in London and Cumbria UK.  See:

Survey of Teenage Hacking           and          News report of Survey

Apr 27

The KSCB working party can offer:

  • 45min presentations for parents evenings, assemblies or smaller groups, to raise awareness,  kick start discussions and engagement based on Childnet Know It All Presentation for Parents or Childnet teachers Safe and Secure online presentation
  • Half day course covering 10 areas in depth to prepare you to act on e-safety, including use of materials from  CEOP and preparation for you to deliver presentations for yourself

You can book  a place on a generic course at KSCB esafety training site

Although all areas need to be covered, it is possible to weight the courses and presentations  should your group have a specific interest or issue you would like included. 

If you would like to organise training for a large number of people who have similar backgrounds or specific interests then use the contact form on this site to get in touch.

Charges may be made in certain circumstances, and there are many online resources to complement these courses; see Programmes of work

You can also opt to take other  Nationally recognised training or self study using  Childnet Know It All  resources