Safeguarding Essentials Resources - Free

Following the launch of the Friendly WiFi scheme, we are delighted to provide an essential guide for teachers.

Friendly WiFi is the world’s first safe certification standard designed to keep children and young people safe online when they use public WiFi. Friendly WiFi was set up to check that UK venues who offer their guests or customers WiFi, have the right filters in place, to block people from viewing child abuse websites and pornography.

This document gives guidance on helping students understand how Friendly WiFi can protect them and is also a useful tool to share with parents about the scheme.

This report begins with Ofsted's definition of e-safety, and explains why teachers should be concerned about it, both relating to their own online behaviour, and that of their students. The report includes some useful background statistics, and highlights things that teachers should look out for when it comes to e-safety, including content, contact and conduct issues. The document goes on to clarify the importance of the schools e-safety policy, and how to ensure that your web habits at home don't impact on your reputation at school. The report includes case studies and useful links.

Social media - interacting with other people online to exchange comments, ideas and innovations - is becoming an increasingly prevalent part of everyone's social life. But should it extend to the workplace, and when boundaries between professional and personal blur, how should we determine what is and is not acceptable? This report provides teachers with an overview of the key issues when it comes to teaching and social media. It clarifies how social media can be a useful educational tool, some useful statistics, safe usage tips and how to avoid being a victim of online abuse. The report includes two case studies and top tips.

If you are looking for ideas for planning your safeguarding or e-safety activities throughout the year, these 2019/20 academic year wall planners are ideal. We have offered suggestions on how the E-safety Support and Safeguarding Essentials resources can be used throughout the year as well as having space for you to insert your own activities. We also highlight some of the key safeguarding and e-safety events throughout the year.

As part of our anti-radicalisation and extremism resources, this lesson focuses on critical thinking and will encourage students to check that content on the Internet is true.

Students will understand why the Internet might not always offer true information and will learn skills to check if a website offers valid and accurate information. They will examine websites for well grounded and genuine information.

In this lesson, key stage 2 children use a range of e-safety scenarios to help them recognise when the content of online communication might be suspicious and to identify signs that a communication may be malicious or from a stranger. The children are encouraged to develop their own suggestions for responses to inappropriate or potentially dangerous communications sent online or via mobile devices, and for understanding who to tell in the event of receiving suspect communications from another person.

The lesson includes a resource sheet with scenario cards to cut out and distribute to children working in groups or pairs, and scenario worksheets.

This safeguarding checklist is based on the Department for Education’s statutory safeguarding guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education, as well as inter-agency safeguarding guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children and guidance on the inspection of safeguarding from Ofsted.

It provides a starting point for reviewing and assessing your current safeguarding provision in school.

This mental well-being checklist will help demonstrate that mental well-being is already on your school’s agenda.

The checklist will assist school leaders when reviewing their mental well-being provision including curriculum contents, staff training and policy implementation.

In this assembly designed for key stage 1 and 2, pupils will understand what bullying is and how bullying makes you feel. They will learn about ways to deal with bullying if it happens to them and where to go to for advice.

In this key stage 3 and key stage 4 assembly, pupils will build on their knowledge of bulling and develop an awareness of the short-term and long-term impacts of bullying on the victims.

In addition, they will learn ways to deal with bullying situations.

This assembly resource engages with the ICT, PSHE and Citizenship curriculum allowing teachers to raise children’s awareness and understanding of ‘Safer Internet Day’. This is the 17th ‘Safer Internet Day’ and occurs on 11th February 2020.

The assembly plan addresses the theme of ‘Safer Internet Day’: ‘Together for a better internet'. This assembly presentation highlights the positive ways in which the online world can be used. As part of this assembly, children are given examples of how to use the Internet in a constructive way and are encouraged to come up with their own tips.

Pupils are given the opportunity to suggest how they might use the Internet in a positive way and how they can get involved in Safer Internet Day.

This assembly resource engages with the ICT, PSHE and Citizenship curriculum allowing teachers to raise children’s awareness and understanding of ‘Safer Internet Day’. This is the 17th ‘Safer Internet Day’ and occurs on 11th February 2020.

The assembly plan addresses the theme of ‘Safer Internet Day’: ‘Together for a better internet'. This assembly presentation highlights the positive ways in which the online world can be used. As part of this assembly, children are given examples of how to use the Internet in a constructive way and are encouraged to come up with their own tips.

Pupils are given the opportunity to suggest how they might use the Internet in a positive way and how they can get involved in Safer Internet Day.