Swindon LSCB Sub-groups

e-safety Sub-group

Membership (as at August 2008):

Chair: Huw Ford, Children Services ICT Manager (SBC)

Membership:

• Social Care representative – to be confirmed
• Police representative, Robin Stannard
• YOT representative, Kevin Leaning
• Health representative, Jan Sadler
• Connexions representative – to be confirmed
• Libraries representative, Andrea Roberts
• SEN, Inclusion and Schools’ Safeguarding Advisor, Pam Jackson
• LSBC Training Manager, Geoff Wood
• Secondary ICT Consultant, (Education ICT schools group representative) Anna Dorricott
• Primary ICT Consultant, (Education ICT schools group representative) Anna Fairhurst
• Early Years Representative, Kim Poulton

Administration: Di Benton

Terms of Reference

“E-safety is a child-safety issue, not a technology issue, and should be the responsibility of everyone involved in providing services to children and young people, not just ICT specialists”. Becta Conference February 2008.

Functions

• To develop a strategy for Swindon’s approach to promoting the safer use of ICT.
• To work in partnership to address specific areas of concern, particularly where children and young people may be at risk of harm.
• To co-ordinate awareness-raising training for staff, parents, carers, children and young people.
• To provide advice and support to colleagues and the community on safeguarding aspects of the use of ICT.

Meetings of the Swindon e-safety Sub-group

The group will normally meet six times a year.

These meetings will normally be held according to the timetable agreed for the year.

(For a list of meeting dates, see Swindon LSCB Documents)

October 2008