Online Safety
Keeping Children Safe Online
At Cedarwood we are committed to ensuring our pupils know how to stay safe both online and offline. Children are taught about online safety as part of the curriculum and promoting pupils' safety and well-being forms part of our whole school ethos and duty of care.
We are aware that the internet can exacerbate and indeed facilitate each of the different forms of abuse and take our responsibility in protecting pupils from harm very seriously.
We aim to keep our parents well informed and in touch with current online issues pertinent to our school and community through monthly online safety newsletters, that are bespoke to our school setting, sharing Digital Parenting magazine and through regular bulletins and updates as we receive them.
We promote online safety across the school in a range of ways including:
- PSHEE lessons and Circle Time discussions
- Computing curriculum
- All staff and volunteers carry out annual online safety training and receive regular training updates
- Adopting adult and pupil behaviour in line with our school's Online Safety and Acceptable Use Policy
- Teaching discreet Online Safety lessons
- Responsible use of log ins and passwords
- Filtering and Monitoring systems
- Distribution of Digital Parenting magazine and discussing relevant issues
- Exploring issues raised in the monthly Online Safety newsletters
- Use of Thinkuknow materials
- Use of Digital Leaders
- Assemblies
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Worried about something that has happened online?
CEOP helps any child or young person under the age of 18 who is being pressured, forced or tricked into taking part in sexual activity of any kind. This can be something that has taken place either online or in ‘the real world’, or both. The CEOP Safety Centre has clear information and advice on what can be reported to CEOP, the reporting process and what will happen if you do decide to make a report. You can visit the CEOP Safety Centre and make a report directly to CEOP by clicking the Click CEOP button.
Reporting Harmful Content (RHC)
The RHC button is an asset of SWGfL, a charity working internationally to ensure all benefit from technology, free from harm.
The button has been developed to offer anyone living in the UK a simple and convenient mechanism for gaining access to reporting routes for commonly used social networking sites, gaming platforms, apps and streaming services alongside trusted online safety advice, help and support. It also provides access to an online mechanism for reporting online harm to the RHC service for those over the age of 13 where an intial report has been made to industry but no action has been taken. RHC will review content in line with a sites' community standards and act in a mediatory capacity where content goes against these.
Children under 13 years of age are encouraged to tell an adult that they trust about what has happened and to ask for their help in reporting this going through our how we can help resource together.
RHC also have advice and links to reporting routes for other online harms people may come across or face, such as impersonation, privacy violations and intimate image abuse.
Reporting to RHC
Reports can be made 24/7 through the online reporting forms and helpline practitioners will review and respond to reports within 72 hours between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday.
Reports can be made to RHC by anyone over the age of 13. SWGfL operates 3 helplines and to be sure you're getting the right support take a look at the Helpline flowchart to find out who can best support you.
Handy Guide
For guides on parental controls please click on the link https://www.knowsleyclcs.org.uk/online-safety-videos/