Child Safety on the Internet

Mrs Fitzsimons made this Freedom of Information request to Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

The request was successful.

From: Mrs Fitzsimons

22 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

This request relates to the safe use of the Internet by Primary and
Secondary School pupils in your region.

Resources:
1. The Byron Review, published 27 March 2008,
2. The Byron Review Action Plan, published 24th June 2008.

The resources above relate to the safety and education of children
using the Internet at Home and School, and the responsibility of
government, local and national to ensure that children are educated
and protected whilst doing so.

I hereby request under the Freedom of Information Act full details
of the Internet Safety Actions and Initiatives currently in place
throughout the region.

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.

Yours truly,
Mrs A Fitzsimons

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From: Chris Daniels
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

22 October 2009

Dear Mrs Fitzsimons

I am writing to acknowledge your Information request received 22 October
2009

It has been allocated reference FOI61776

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides Public Authorities with 20
working days to process requests.

This period expires on 19 November 2009

Regards

Chris Daniels
Information Management Officer
Legal Dept
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
St Ives House
St Ives Road
Maidenhead
SL6 1RF

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From: Chris Daniels
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

13 November 2009

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Dear Mr Fitzsimons

Further to your Freedom of Information request FOI61776, please find your
questions and our responses below:

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?

All schools should work to the National Curriculum programmes of study.
Staying safe on-line is specifically mentioned in the new secondary
curriculum for ICT. Specifically in KS3 and KS4 sections 1.4. The link
is:

[1]http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages...

In addition, on-line safety is implied in other parts of the Programme of
Study (PoS) for ICT and in other "Cross-curriculum dimensions",
particularly "Healthy Lifestyles".... The link is:

[2]http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages...

There is no specific mention of on-line safety in the existing PoS for ICT
although schools could wish to bring this aspect in to the "General
requirement for Health and Safety" and "Communicating and Sharing
Information" section.

[3]http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages...

- If yes, who is responsible for delivery and what accreditations/training
have they received? For example, teacher, CEOP trained ambassador.

The Headteacher.
We do not hold this information. You need to go to the schools for this
information. I have attached a list of the Borough schools.

<<Schools Directory - latest version.doc>>
- If yes, how often is internet safety training integrated into the
school curriculum, i.e. weekly, monthly etc

We do not hold this information.

- 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?

All bar one school.

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

All LA schools comply with the LA filtering policy which was developed as
part of the RBWM Internet Access and Child Protection Policy.

- If yes, what is the name of your internet filtering supplier and when
was their contract last renewed/due for renewal?

Atomwide Ltd - Due for renewal on 1st April 2011

3. Internet Filtering Breaches

I am not aware of any examples of deliberate unauthorised circumventions
of the filtering systems.

- 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.

Secondary & Primary 5 Jun 09.
Secondary & Primary 4 Jun 09.
Secondary 1 May 09.
Primary 21 Apr 09.
Secondary 16 Jan 09.
Secondary 2 Dec 08.
Secondary 26 Jun 08.
Secondary 23 Jun 08.
Secondary 4 Jul 08.
Secondary 16 Jun 08.
Secondary 10 Mar 08.
Secondary 7 Mar 08.
Secondary 29 Feb 08.
Secondary 26 Feb 08.
Secondary 29 Nov 07.
Secondary 12 Dec 07. (Multiple sites)
Secondary 15 Nov 07.
The material viewed on the above contains material of an adult nature,
ranging from extreme pornography to swimwear models.

(Council in Windsor & Maidenhead is where our central support team are
looking at sites with a view of blocking it before schools can see it.

- 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.

They are all included on our central support system managed by our service
provider. Who advise the Council.

This concludes your request FOI61776.

If you are dissatisfied in any way you may complain to Martin Tubbs,
Corporate Information and Compliance Manager by e-mail
[email address] or write to the address below.

Once you have exhausted the complaints procedure you may appeal to the
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Please note that this information is covered by the Re-Use of Public
Sector Information Regulations 2005. If you would like to re-use any of
this information for any purpose whatsoever, please contact Martin Tubbs,
Corporate Information and Compliance Manager ([email address]),
setting out why and how you intend to re-use this information. The Council
will then consider whether to grant you a license to re-use this
information and will inform you if there is any fee for doing so.

Yours sincerely

Chris Daniels
Information Management Officer
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Legal Services
Town Hall
St Ives Road
Maidenhead
SL6 1RF

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3. http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages...

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