Landau Forte College Derby

Pursuing Education Excellence

Online Safety

Overview and Policy

The College has a dedicated email address for parents/carers to ask for advice or support.  This is [email protected]

Curriculum
All students study a dedicated, age-related curriculum around Online Risks and Dangers and how to navigate safely using the Internet. This forms part of the College’s Personal Development curriculum and is studied in Computer Science lessons, Values/Learning for Life, Tutor Time and discrete units of learning throughout the year.

Filtering & Monitoring
Whilst using the College network, there are a range of measures in place to monitor and protect students. If you have any questions on this, please contact the College using the dedicated email address above:

Smoothwall Web Filter – This provides age appropriate filtering of websites to ensure that students are protected from viewing harmful material. A daily report is collated of websites that were blocked by the filter.

Smoothwall Monitor – This monitors all activity on any College device using any software. Anything typed in by users is monitored and concerning words or phrases trigger an alert to the Safeguarding team at the College.

Net Support Classroom Management – Teachers can view and monitor the entire class set of computers and remotely launch or close applications. Staff can also exhibit or demonstrate exemplar student work to the rest of the class

Net Support DNA – The ICT systems team use a network management tool for tracking and monitoring all computer/user activity in the College

Barracuda Email filtering and Trend Micro Anti-virus web protection - Advanced virus/malware/spyware protection including Phishing and Impersonation Protection.”

Support

The following are external links that provide support for parents/carers:

Setting Parental controls -

It is normally quite straightforward to set up parental controls on your home wifi and devices. 

Please check internetmatters for the most up-to-date list of devices and services.

Parent's guides - 

The following guides are from commonsensemedia.org and give useful information to parents on a whole range of apps and games:

Social Media Security settings - 

The guides below offer support on how to adjust privacy settings for several of the most popular apps:

Useful Websites

  • internetmatters.org
    Lots of support on all aspects to do with parents keeping their children safe online.
  • Common Sense Media
    Independent parental advice on the benefits and dangers of apps, games, movies etc.
  • Parent Info
    Lots of support/advice on all social media apps and games.
  • Thinkuknow
    Advice from the National Crime Agency on how to stay safe online. It includes sections for parents and students and advice on reporting.
  • Net Aware
    NSPCC site giving guidance and advice on all social media apps and games.
  • UK Safer Internet Centre
    Consortium of charities to raise awareness and offer advice to parents and students.
  • Childline
    Includes advice on how to report abuse.
  • NetSmartz
    Age-appropriate videos and activities to help teach children be safer online.

 

Online Safety – Parent Information & Survey

In March this year, we surveyed students at the College to gain a current picture of their understanding of keeping safe online.

As a result, we have designed a new webpage to support students and parents and would like to signpost this to you as well as gain your feedback on keeping your children safe online.

Thanks in advance for your support with this.

Q1 - We surveyed around 3/4 of our students. What year groups at the College do you have a child in? (you can tick more than one box)
Q2 – Everyone whom we surveyed had access to their own mobile phone. What other internet enabled devices does your child have at home? (you can tick more than one box)
Q3 – Around 20% of students said they didn’t know whether parental controls had been set up on their home wifi. Are there parental controls set on your broadband router (Home WIFI)?
Note: Our new webpage has links to setting up controls for all major broadband providers.
Q4 – Over 1/3 of students said there were no parental controls set up directly on their devices. Are there parental controls set on your child’s devices?
Note: Our new webpage has links to setting up controls for all major devices.
Q5 – Most students said they used between 3 and 6 social media apps. Which of these are you aware that your child uses? (you can tick more than one box)
Q6 – Nearly half of students have not changed their privacy settings on their social media accounts since they were set up. Do you know what privacy settings are set up on your child’s social media accounts?
Note: Our new webpage has links to changing privacy settings for all the major social media apps.
Q7 – Between 60% and 80% of students said that they kept their smartphone in their bedroom overnight. In your home do your children have to give their devices to you before bedtime?
Q8 – Over 70% of students said that their parents had talked to them about being safe online. How confident are you of talking to your child about online dangers?
Q9 – Nearly half of students said that their parents monitor their activity on their devices. How often do you check your child’s device/supervise their activity online?
Q10 – Over 60% of students said that they would tell their parents if they were concerned about something that happened online. Do you think your child would tell you if they were concerned about something online?

Thanks for completing this survey.

The link to our new webpage is here

If you have any questions regarding online safety, please email the College on [email protected]

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