1. eSafety Strategy

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Contact - Comments lscb@lancashire.gov.uk