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Post by LexLearn on Jul 5, 2015 11:29:49 GMT
The slides from David Brown's (HMI) presentation at the Child Internet Safety Summit are available here.
They are well worth a read - some interesting findings, particularly for primary schools.
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Post by LexLearn on Mar 1, 2016 10:14:45 GMT
Some more information about what Ofsted expect in this short video by David Brownwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa8LVR3sYJ8Full Transcript:Ofsted view safeguarding as a crucial part of inspection and online safety is a very important part of that. It's quite clear that there are a number of issues relating to online safety that are likely to occur in schools. We accept that. We know there will be issues. So we look at how schools deal with issues when they arise, but just as importantly, what work they do to try and prevent or minimise those issues occurring. Inspectors will look at a school's policies for online safety, perhaps as part of safeguarding policies, but more importantly, they'll look at outcomes. So they will talk to children and see how well they're being prepared for the world of online safety, particularly social media, and they will also look at what happens when things go wrong. Inspectors understand that things will go wrong in schools and so it is very important that we look at how a school deals with those issues when they arise. Ofsted's view of good practice in online safety is that a school looks at it as a whole-school issue. It's not the responsibility of the computing department, or the computing department on their own, but it should thread throughout the life of the school - through the school curriculum, perhaps in computing lessons but also perhaps in PHSE lessons, tutorials, assemblies... but importantly that every member of staff has some understanding, and therefore some responsibility for work in this area. That's very important of course, because it could be anybody that a child discloses to or talks about an issue with, so every adult needs to be aware of e-safety issues throughout the school. Issues in online safety clearly are changing rapidly and it's important that inspectors do keep up to date with this. We don't do this in isolation. We work with a number of partners, including the UK Safer Internet Centre and we meet with them regularly, they train our inspectors and they regularly update us with what the very latest issues are so that we can do our best to try and keep up to date with what is a very important but rapidly changing area.
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