Child Safety on the Internet

Thank you for your request for information and I confirm we shall
respond as quickly as possible but not later than 18 November 2009.

Wendy Kassamani
Information Compliance Officer
Brighton & Hove City Council
Tel: 01273 296636

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Regarding your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000: Ref: foi/594/09

Please find set out below the information in response to the above
request:

"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?

All Brighton & Hove Schools have received local guidance on Cyberbullying
and have been encouraged to include Cyberbullying in the PSHE & SEAL
curriculum. During anti-bullying week 2009 schools are encouraged to focus
on Cyberbullying under the national campaign `Stay Safe in Cyberspace'.

In mainstream schools e-safety within an ICT context is often taught on a
modular basis. The practice varies from school to school, but on the
whole the modules are taught every year - with progression built in taking
into account the age of the students and their uses of ICT. E-safety would
be constantly reinforced whenever possible. The ICT subject leader or
subject curriculum leader would be responsible for devising and including
Internet Safety in the curriculum. No official training has taken place
for staff.

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?

Yes

The authority uses McAfee Web Gateway appliances to filter the schools'
internet feed at the core.

Additionally primary schools have edge caches which filter the internet
feed using McAfee Smartfilter.

All filtering is done internally and the software is licensed until April
2010.

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.

No.

We do not keep detailed records of such occasions.

On two occasions primary schools have reported that a child entered an
innocuous term

in a search engine and a page of links containing words of a sexual nature
were returned as results.

The links were blocked by the filtering process and no indecent images
were seen by children."

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Brighton & Hove City Council

Hove Town Hall

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Hove BN3 4AH

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contact details below.

Wendy Kassamani

Information Compliance Officer

Brighton & Hove City Council

Hove Town Hall

Norton Road

Hove, BN3 4AH

Tel: 01273 296636

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