Dear Mrs Fitsimons

Information Request: FR1546

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 22/10/2009. Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act and is detailed below in italics with our response.

Your original request is detailed below in italics.

1. Internet Safety Education provided as part of the school

curriculum.

- Within your schools is there a specific program aimed at teaching

children about staying safe online, including cyber bullying been

integrated into the curriculum?

- If yes, who is responsible for delivery and what

accreditations/training have they received? For example, teacher,

CEOP trained ambassador.

- If yes, how often is internet safety training integrated into the

school curriculum, i.e. weekly, monthly etc

- If no, what steps/timeframes are being taken for implementation?

2. Internet Filtering

- Do the primary and secondary schools within your authority have

internet filtering in place?

- If yes, what tools do you use? For example Hardware or Software?

- If yes, what is the name of your internet filtering supplier and

when was their contract last renewed/due for renewal?

3. Internet Filtering Breaches

- Have any of the Schools within the past 24 months experienced a

breach of Internet Filtering where children were able to access

pornography or Indecent images. Please provide details of School

Type(Primary or Secondary), Date of Breach and Type of Unsuitable

material accessed.

- If a breach of security occurred how was your authority notified?

For example, by a parent, by the school, through an automated alert

provided by hardware/software supplier.

Our Response

For ease of admin our response has been attached separately

The disclosure to you of the enclosed information does not give you a right to reproduce or publish such information without the express permission of the County Council or any other owners of the copyright therein.

If you are unhappy with the response, you can ask the Council to review it. To do this please write to the address below:

Paul Edwards

Head of Business Intelligence and Performance

Northamptonshire County Council

PO Box 93

County Hall

Northampton NN1 1AN

If our internal review does not resolve the issue to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to apply to the information Commissioner for a decision at the following address:

Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Or, if you have any complaints in respect of your information request please complete the on-line comments form that can be found at www.northamptonshire.gov.uk, along with a full set of guidance.

Yours sincerely

Gillian Hollowell

Senior Freedom of Information/Data Protection Officer
Legal & Democratic Services

Northamptonshire County Council

Please ask for: Gill Hollowell

Tel: 01603 237407

Our ref: FR1546

Your ref:

Date: 11 November 2009

Northamptonshire County Council

County Hall

PO Box 136

Northampton, NN1 1AT

w. www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

t. 01604 237407

f. 01604 237004

e. [email address]