Safer Internet Day

Resources to support safer internet day 2011 on 8th February can now be accessed in the menu to the left or by clicking here

E-safeguarding Newsletter

Insafe provide a monthly newsletter around e-safeguarding and we recommend all schools subscribe to this by clicking here

The first phase of Becta's new safeguarding area went live recently to coincide with Safer Internet Day and our successful 3rd biennial safeguarding conference: Empowering children and young people in a digital world. Taking a topic-based approach, the new portal aims to consolidate Becta's e-safety materials for all audiences, while also providing multimedia exemplar materials to demonstrate e-safety in practice. Based on our successful hard-copy materials, Safeguarding children online - click here

Interactive teaching & learning resources to support SMART rules

Animated interactive resources are now freely avaiallble on the childnet site to support the learning of the SMART rules - click here

Guidance for staff on appropriate use of new technologies

Clear advice for SMT and all staff with regard to appropriate behaviours when using new technologies - download here

The safe use of new technologies - Ofsted report

This report is based on evidence from a small-scale survey carried out between April and July 2009 in 35 maintained schools in England (includes 4 Bradford schools). It evaluates the extent to which the schools taught pupils to adopt safe and responsible practices in using new technologies, and how they achieved this.  Click here to access the full report

Safer Internet Day activities for schools now available in the Safer Internet Day menu on the left.

Guide for staff and pupils to use Facebook safely from the YHGfL click here