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The internet holds huge potential for children and young people. It is a fun and exciting place to explore, and it helps children and young people to learn at home as well as in school. The internet and use of mobile devices are now a part of the daily social and educational lives of children and young people, and it is therefore vitally important that we are aware of the risks so that children and young people can make the most of the opportunities available to them while remaining safe.
Our approach to online safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk:
- Content – being exposed to illegal, inappropriate, or harmful content, for example: pornography, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, antisemitism, radicalisation, extremism, misinformation, disinformation (including fake news) and conspiracy theories.
- Contact – being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users; for example: peer to peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit them for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes.
- Conduct – online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm; for example, making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g. consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography, sharing other explicit images and online bullying, and
- Commerce – risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and or financial scams.
If you have any questions about online safety at More House School, or you have a concern about a member of the school community, then please contact one of the DSLs: [email protected] / 01252 792303.
More House School actively supports the Government’s Prevent Agenda to counter radicalisation and extremism, through focused education as well as effective school computer network filtering and monitoring systems.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) is a command of the National Crime Agency and is dedicated to tackling the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and young people. CEOP helps children and young people under the age of 18 who have been forced or manipulated into taking part, or are being pressured to take part, in sexual activity of any kind. This can be both online and offline. The CEOP Safety Centre offers information and advice for children and young people, parents and carers and professionals. You can visit the CEOP Safety Centre and make a report directly to CEOP by clicking the Click CEOP image.
Report Harmful Content (RHC) is a national reporting centre that has been designed to assist everyone in reporting harmful content online. Click on the image to start a report.
The Report Remove tool helps young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet. Click on the image to start a report.
Useful resources for parents and carers
- Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) – Reporting online abuse
- Report Remove Tool
- UK Safer Internet Centre – Advice and support on staying safe online
- Think u know – Resources for families
- National Online Safety – Online safety guides for parents and carers
- Parent Zone – App guides for parents and carers
- Responding to Online Challenges and Hoaxes
The Reporting Harmful Content (RHC) button is an asset of South West Grid for Learning (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 initial report has been made to industry but no action has been taken. RHC will review content in line with a site’s 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 by going through the 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.
The RHC button provides a gateway to the RHC reporting pages, an area of the RHC website offering:
- Links to reporting routes on commonly used sites for 8 types of online harm.
- Help, advice and support on what to do if experiencing or witnessing harm online.
- Signposting to industry partners reporting forms and the ability to report legal but harmful content directly to RHC for further investigation.
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.
