eSafety Strategy

The six priorities

Raise awareness and understanding of eSafety issues amongst children and young people

Raise awareness and understanding of eSafety issues amongst parents and carers

Raise awareness and understanding of eSafety issues amongst all partner agencies

Enable all partner agencies to respond appropriately to incidents as well as to respond to risks posed to children and young people by their use of ICT

Improve safe access to the Internet for children and young people

Monitor eSafety arrangements and incidents in the County

Objectives

Enable all schools to tackle the issue of eSafety Increase the number of pupils receiving eSafety lessons Raise awareness and understanding of eSafety issues

amongst children and young people Raise awareness and understanding of eSafety issues

amongst parents and carers Improve levels of awareness amongst parents and carers of

the risks posed to children and young people by their use of technology

Increase awareness of how to respond and report incidents both to local and national agencies

What is the long term aim of the Strategy

Increase the number of professionals working with children and young people with an understanding of the issues and how to deal with them

Increase the number of professionals with an understanding of the importance of eSafety and how to deal with the issues

Obtain broad commitment to eSafety at executive level beyond the LSCB

Ensure that where appropriate, agencies have eSafety strategies in place. These should cover their responsibilities for educating children, responding to and investigating incidents, protecting staff and any other areas which pertain to them

Improve the safety of children’s use of the internet in schools Gather an accurate and up to date picture of eSafety arrangements in

all member agencies

Contact - Comments

lscb@lancashire.gov.uk