E-safety

Online Safety Guidance for Educational Settings
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Welcome to the Kent Online Safety guidance for education settings. This page links to Kent resources, as well as national guidance to enable leaders, managers, proprietors and Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) within education settings develop and implement a whole setting approach towards online safety and fulfil their statutory safeguarding obligations.

Additional resources and guidance can be accessed through The Education People or by contacting the Education Safeguarding Adviser (Online Protection) within the Educational Safeguarding Team.

Educational settings are encouraged to access and subscribe to the online safety blog to receive updates and information regarding online safety news, guidance or resources.

Online Safety Policy Templates
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The Kent online safety policy template is suitable for all education settings to use and adapt to create a policy appropriate to their own needs and requirements.

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP): Templates and Guidance
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The Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) guidance and templates contains guidance for leaders and managers to assist them in writing effective AUPs for their settings.

Acceptable Use Posters

Kent County Council and EiS have published AUP posters for use by educational settings. The posters are A3 in size. To print smaller sizes, use the settings provided by your printer (i.e. for A4 reduce to 71%). If supported, set your printer to print borderless.

Supporting Documents for Leaders, Managers and DSLs
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Cameras and Image Use Template Policy and Guidance
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This document includes a template image use policy, along with supporting resources and frequently asked questions regarding the use of images and cameras. The document should be accessed alongside guidance regarding educational settings data protection obligations.

Responding to Youth Produced Sexual Imagery ('Sexting')
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The Kent Safeguarding Children Board have published a short guide and flowchart for Kent professionals to use to respond to youth produced sexual imagery concerns (otherwise known as 'sexting').

The flowchart should be used in conjunction with the UKCCIS Sexting in schools and colleges: responding to incidents and safeguarding young people guidance to help inform DSLs decision making when responding to concerns.

The UKCCIS guidance includes responding to disclosures, handling devices and imagery, risk assessing situations, involving other agencies and reporting imagery to providers. It also contains information about preventative education and advice regarding working with parents.

UKCCIS have also published an Overview of Sexting Guidance summary document which DSLs may find useful to share with staff and/or discuss on staff training.

KSCB: Safer Professional Practice with Technology
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This document provides guidance on appropriate and safer behaviours with technology for professionals working with children and young people. It can stimulate discussion and help to ensure staff are aware of safe, appropriate and professional behaviour, including online boundaries and maintaining professional relationships with children, young people and families.

The Kent Education Online Safety Strategy Group
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Many of these documents are the work of the Kent Education Safeguarding Team, with support from the Kent Education Online Safety group. Kent Schools and settings can contact the Education Safeguarding Adviser (Online Protection) to express an interest in supporting this group.

Kent Safeguarding Children Board (KSCB) also has a multi-agency online safeguarding group which considers online safety throughout the wider child and adult safeguarding workforce.

National Online Safety Guidance
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UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS)

DfE: 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' 2018

Keeping Children Safe In Education (KCSIE) 2018 highlights specific statutory responsibilities for Governing bodies and leaders regarding online safety within Annex C. A detailed summary can be found here (PDF, 353.0 KB).

Additional DfE links

Ofsted

The Common Inspection Framework and "Inspecting safeguarding in Early Years, education and skills settings" includes important information about online safety provision. Further information, with suggestions and recommendations regarding practice can be found here (PDF, 458.6 KB).

Additional Ofsted links

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