Where excessive personal use of social media in school is suspected, and considered to be interfering with relevant duties, disciplinary action may be taken Monitoring of Public Social As part of active social media engagement, it is considered good practice to pro-actively monitor the Internet for public postings about the school The school should effectively respond to social media comments made by others according to a defined policy or process The school’s use of social media for professional purposes will be checked regularly by the Online Safety co-ordinator to ensure compliance with the school policies. Unsuitable / inappropriate activities Some internet activity e.g. accessing child abuse images or distributing racist material is illegal and would obviously be banned from school and all other technical systems. Other activities e.g. bullying would be banned and could lead to criminal prosecution. There are however a range of activities which may, generally, be legal but would be inappropriate in a school context, either because of the age of the users or the nature of those activities. The school believes that the activities referred to in the following section would be inappropriate in a school context and that users, as defined below, should not engage in these activities in / or outside the school when using school equipment or systems. The school policy restricts usage as follows: users illegal nominated and certain at for User Actions Acceptable Acceptable Acceptable Unacceptable Unacceptable sexual abuse images making, production or distribution of –The or or X indecent images of children. Contrary to The Protection of Children Act on, to: not data that post, make, 1978 pass material, shall Internet transfer, remarks, relate download, contain or Grooming, incitement, arrangement or facilitation of sexual acts against sites, proposals upload, visit X communicate children Contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 2003. comments
Where excessive personal use of social media in school is suspected, and considered to be interfering with relevant duties, disciplinary action may be taken Monitoring of Public Social As part of active social media engagement, it is considered good practice to pro-actively monitor the Internet for public postings about the school The school should effectively respond to social media comments made by others according to a defined policy or process The school’s use of social media for professional purposes will be checked regularly by the Online Safety co-ordinator to ensure compliance with the school policies. Unsuitable / inappropriate activities Some internet activity e.g. accessing child abuse images or distributing racist material is illegal and would obviously be banned from school and all other technical systems. Other activities e.g. would be banned and could lead to criminal prosecution. There are however a range of activities which may, generally, be legal but would be inappropriate in a school context, either because of the age of the users or the nature of those activities. The school believes that the activities referred to in the following section would be inappropriate in a school context and that users, as defined below, should not engage in these activities in / or outside the school when using school equipment or systems. The school policy restricts usage as follows: User Actions Acceptable Acceptable at certain Acceptable for nominated users Unacceptable Unacceptable and illegal shall not visit Internet sites, make, post, download, upload, data transfer, communicate or pass on, material, remarks, proposals or comments that contain or relate to: sexual abuse images –The making, production or distribution of indecent images of children. Contrary to The Protection of Children Act 1978 X Grooming, incitement, arrangement or facilitation of sexual acts against children Contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 2003. X bullying
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