Social Media Monitoring

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Dear Abbeyfield School, Chippenham,

Please find below my FOI request regarding the monitoring of students' private social media accounts:

1. Does your school/institution actively search through students' private social media accounts to:
a) Look for negative comments (i.e. against other students or staff members)
b) Gauge your institution's standards (i.e. the type of feedback your institution receives)
c) Safeguard students' well-being (i.e. to try and spot the early signs of suicidal thoughts)
[Please indicate which of the above you do/don't do.]

2. Does your school/institution employ any kind of software that helps you search through students' private social media accounts for certain comments or images?

3. Does your school/institution have a policy in place which allows for the monitoring of students' private social media accounts?

4. Is your school/institution looking to employ software and/or policies that will enable you to monitor students' private social media accounts in the future?

5. If the answer is "yes" for question 4, what reason is given for this?

Yours faithfully,

Rebecca Moody

J Vaughan, Abbeyfield School, Chippenham

Good afternoon.

Thank you for your email.

The answer to the questions listed below is no for all questions. We do not hold any information relating to the monitoring of student social media accounts.

Kind regards

Jessica

Jessica Vaughan

Bursar

Abbeyfield School
Stanley Lane
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 3XB
Tel: 01249 464500

Twitter @AbbeyfieldEDU
www.abbeyfieldschool.co.uk

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