Online Safety
Online safety is part of Safeguarding in our school. Safeguarding is the responsibility of everyone in our community. Please click here to find the link to our Safeguarding Page and information about how you can contact our Designated Safeguarding Leads if you have any concerns.
You can find our Child Protection and Online Safety Policy here.
Filtering
At Claremont Primary School, we use Netsweeper as our filtering system. Netsweeper blocks school provided internet access to illegal content and activity as identified in the Online Safety Act. This includes access to sites which could promote or include harmful and/or inappropriate behaviour or material. Our filtering system is operational, up to date and applied to all users, including guest accounts, all school owned or provided devices, systems and networks, and all devices using the school internet connection.
Monitoring
The DSL team and SLT will work with Broadband4 and PJA Systems Limited as appropriate, to ensure that our filtering policy is continually checked and reviewed to reflect our needs and requirements.
We will appropriately monitor the use of all school provided devices and networks to detect safeguarding risks
in real or near-real time, including accessing or attempting to access, or engaging with or attempting to engage
with illegal and/or harmful/inappropriate content or activity by any user. This is achieved by:
- Physical monitoring
- Monitoring the internet and web access by reviewing logfile information
- Use of Netsweeper
- Review at DSL meetings
- Review as part of governor monitoring processes.
- Guest access to the school WiFi is subject to the same systems
- Daily reporting emails sharing any blocks that have happened.
Please see below for our recent Online Safety presentation to parents and useful links:
CEOP is the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
CEOP help children stay safe online. If someone has acted inappropriately towards you online, or to a child or young person you know, you should report it. It may be sexual chat or someone asking you to do something that makes you feel uncomfortable or someone being insistent on meeting up. Whatever it is, if it feels wrong, it probably is. Report it via:
Online Safety
If you would like to report harmful content, this website tells you exactly how to do it for each platform.
The following links will take you to websites and leaflets designed to give guidance to help parents to keep children safe online at home.
- Setting controls for all types of devices and websites
- Cyberbullying
- Game age guidance
- Apps and social media guidance
- Tips to balance screen time
- Mental Health and Social Media
- Keeping Children Safe Online
- Keeping Under Fives Safe Online
- Young People and Social Media
Other websites give excellent guidance and advice to parents, teachers and others working with children