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Dear Doncaster College,

Hi I'm currently writing a paper for Uni on Social Media and its impact on the workplace. I thought a school/college environment would provide good detail for study into its impact on the day to day working life.

Can you please tell me, from dates April 2018 -April 2019

1) How many incidents of students misusing social media during that period?
2) Were those on or off-site?
3 What those incidents related to? (sexting, cyber-bullying, accessing or posting improper sites/images etc)
4) What action was taken?

1) How many incidents of staff misusing social media during that period?
2) Were those on or off-site?
3 What those incidents related to? (sexting, cyber-bullying, accessing or posting improper sites/images etc)
4) What action was taken?

And finally what measures have been taken to prevent/reduce any incidents occurring?

Yours faithfully,

Tim

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Doncaster College

Dear Tim

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Freedom of Information request - Social Media

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Terry Hutchinson, Doncaster College

Hello

Please see response below;

Can you please tell me, from dates April 2018 -April 2019

STUDENTS

1) How many incidents of students misusing social media during that period?

The College has a forensic monitoring system for social media and it picked up 1351 incidents. Not all were bullying related.

2) Were those on or off-site?

All forensic monitoring is on student PC within the College.

3 What those incidents related to? (sexting, cyber-bullying, accessing or posting improper sites/images etc) Incidents which were related:

Cyber - 10
Homophobic - 4
Physical - 11
Racist - 0
Verbal - 24
Sexting - 2

4) What action was taken?

Various - disciplinary, group work around bullying and 1:1 work.

STAFF

1) How many incidents of staff misusing social media during that period?
2) Were those on or off-site?
3 What those incidents related to? (sexting, cyber-bullying, accessing or posting improper sites/images etc)
4) What action was taken?

With regard to staff only, the instances of social media ‘misuse’ since April 2018 is 4. The nature of these were low level, non-criminal but deemed to be inappropriate by the college- linking to professional standards and the reputation of the college.
These instances were all offsite.

Action taken:

1 Formal process resulting in a disciplinary hearing and formal warning
3 Managed informally through internal management processes including training, support and monitoring etc.

Regards

Terry Hutchinson
Head of Registry
DN Colleges Group
Doncaster College and University Centre
Registry | The Hub | Chappell Drive | Doncaster | DN1 2RF
T: 01302 553967
http://www.don.ac.uk/

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