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Social media and the online world Top 10 questions This session Answer your top 10 questions Take more questions Expect you to join in! 1. How can I deal with parents offensive comments on Facebook? Parents comments on


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Social media and the online world

Top 10 questions

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This session

  • Answer your top 10 questions
  • Take more questions
  • Expect you to join in!
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  • 1. How can I deal with parents offensive

comments on Facebook?

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Parent’s comments on Facebook

  • Ignore it
  • Work with parents individually and collectively, if they are willing
  • Defamation and libel – do you need/want legal advice and what

might this achieve?

  • Contact Facebook?
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  • 2. Should I check if a young person is on

Facebook?

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Checking if a young person is on Facebook

  • Why are you checking?
  • What are you hoping to see (or not see)?
  • What are you trying to achieve and is there a better way of doing

it?

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  • 3. I know an underage child is on
  • Facebook. What should I do?
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Underage children and Facebook

  • 13 years old is the entry point
  • Talk to the young person
  • Do you want to mention it to the parents?
  • How well do you educate young people about online risks,

regardless of age and specific websites?

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  • 4. When do staff posts become a

disciplinary matter?

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Staff posts and disciplinary steps

  • What does your policy say?
  • Do contracts and/or policy contain a general term re

standards and expectations

  • Can you work with staff to educate them about social media?
  • Think outside of social media – would it be a disciplinary
  • ffence if it happened ‘in reality’?
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  • 5. Is it ok to ‘friend’ young people that

you have worked with in the past?

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Friending young people you have worked with

  • Need a clear policy on it
  • What does yours say?
  • My position: it’s ok – after all, they have left the

service/school and you have no control over them and no power to limit the contact staff have with the community

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  • 6. Should we allow staff to ‘friend’

extended family of the young people we work with?

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Friending extended family of young people

  • Clarity of policy
  • Do you allow nieces/nephews/children?
  • Or does your policy make a blanket rule?
  • What works best for your service in your community?
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  • 7. Is it ok to for a member of staff to

store a young person’s mobile number in his phone?

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Staff mobiles and children’s phone numbers

  • Why would you have them?
  • What are the risks?
  • Pool mobiles, centrally managed, data erased
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  • 8. How do we get the balance right with

parents taking photos of all children?

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Photos of children

  • What does your policy say?
  • Is it sensible, balanced and workable?
  • Allow photos for private retention only and rely on parents

to abide by the policy

  • What about protection orders?
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Photos of children - protection orders

  • Photographs of children subject to protective orders hard to

manage: – Sports days – School productions – Playground

  • What can be controlled – to same extent - is the naming of

them

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  • 9. I suspect a pupil’s phone has an illegal

image on it. What should I do?

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Checking a pupil’s electronic devices

  • Power to examine electronic files where you have good

reason to do so

  • Allows you to retain or dispose of the device
  • Power to view, retain or erase any data or files where you

have good reason to do so

  • What is a good reason?
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Checking a pupil’s electronic devices

  • “Good reason”

– Staff member must reasonably suspect that data or file has been, or could be, used to cause harm, to disrupt teaching or break school rules

  • Wide power
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Checking a pupil’s electronic devices

  • What do you do with the image?
  • Staff can dispose of a pornographic image unless its

possession is an offence (extreme or child pornography)

  • Where it is, pass to the police
  • Other images can be deleted
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  • 10. Should I keep records or tell parents

about data on electronic devices?

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Records and informing parents

  • Not required to inform parents of a search
  • No legal requirement to keep a record of searches
  • Recommended that parents advised where alcohol, illegal

drugs or harmful substances found – not a legal requirement

  • What would you like to do?
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Other questions/tweets?

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Dai Durbridge | 0161 300 8037 | dai.durbridge@brownejacobson.com