Social Media Monitoring
Dear Abbot Beyne School, Burton-on-Trent,
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
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)
No
b) Gauge your institution's standards (i.e. the type of feedback your
institution receives)
Yes - only on school networks
c) Safeguard students' well-being (i.e. to try and spot the early signs of
suicidal thoughts)
Yes - only on school networks or if privy to information posted out of
school via another means(ie shown by another student/staff member)
[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?
Yes - only if they use their private social media on a school network
3. Does your school/institution have a policy in place which allows for
the monitoring of students' private social media accounts?
Yes - on school network only
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?
Already do on school networks
5. If the answer is "yes" for question 4, what reason is given for this?
N/A
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James Church
Deputy Headteacher
Abbot Beyne School,
Linnell Building,
Osborne St,
Winshill,
Burton on Trent,
Staffordshire,
DE15 0JL.
01283 759007
01283 239831
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