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.”
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
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
There are now some resources in BSL and Widget format available at
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.
In their latest bulletin, Ofcom have launched some resources to support media literacy education:
Heres a compot of the latest research papers that set the scene for an e-safety strategy in the UK
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
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
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:
The KSCB working party can offer:
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
