e-safety podcast: a whole school approach to e-safety

Alan Mackenzie discusses how to implement a whole school approach to e-safety to ensure that e-safety is everyone’s responsibility

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Alan Mackenzie

For seven years, Alan Mackenzie was the service manager at Lincolnshire County Council, where he managed all IT services for around 350 schools. He was also the e-safety lead for Children's Services, raising initiatives for schools, police and...

During the podcast Alan identifies that in some schools e-safety is still seen as an ICT issue, rather than a safeguarding concern. 

Any safeguarding concern needs to be taken seriously and the staff member responsible must have adequate training. 

Your school's e-safety policy can create a standardised approach to how e-safety concerns are handled and all key roles in this area should work together to achieve this.

Alan lists the key roles as:

  • the governing body
  • the senior leadership team
  • the ICT coordinator
  • the pastoral team.

You can download Alan’s checklist to help plan a whole school approach to e-safety in your school.

 

Last Updated: 
21 Jul 2015