nice work madam..salute to ur work...

Admirable that you and team are raising awareness. Congratulations Josie!

Childnet International is an independent children’s charity working in partnership with others around the world to help make the internet a great and safe place for young people.

Childnet works in 3 main areas: Access, Awareness, and Protection & Policy.

Access and positive promotion- Promoting the positive aspects of the Internet – Helping children and young people to use the net constructively, showcase quality content, and enable others to use our resources and develop new projects.

Education and awareness – Helping children and young people acquire new “net literacy” skills and giving advice to industry, organisations, parents, teachers and carers about internet and mobile safety. This is achieved by providing resources and information to pupils, teachers and parents & carers, and visiting schools about internet safety and security.

Policy and protection – Working with and advising others, including governments, the internet industry, and mobile phone providers, to help protect children from being exploited in the online environments provided by new technologies, as well as seeking to initiate and respond to policy changes.

The Childnet website also functions as a portal for various internet safety initiatives including Kidsmart for primary pupils, parents and teachers, Know IT All for key stage 3 pupils, Chatdanger, Jenny’s Story and Sorted for secondary school pupils.

Cyberbullying
SAFE TO LEARN: EMBEDDING ANTI-BULLYING WORK IN SCHOOLS

As more and more schools are having to respond to the growing challenge of cyberbullying, it is vital that schools understand the issue, know how to prevent and respond to incidents, and are updated on the legal issues surrounding this challenging subject.

The DCSF has worked with children’s charity Childnet International to provide this guidance, which forms part of the anti-bullying guidance Safe to Learn: Embedding Anti-Bullying Work in Schools. You will be able to find important information and clear advice on the subject, and review how your school takes action.

Quote from a pupil: “I felt that no-one understood what I was going through. I didn’t know who was sending me these messages, and I felt powerless to know what to do.”

Quote from a parent: “Having my daughter show me text messages from nearly everyone in her class all saying derogatory things about her was devastating.”

Quote from a staff member: “The accusation about me which the students put on their website was horrendous. Within hours it seemed that the whole school had read this message.”

This guidance was developed for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) by Childnet International and in consultation with the DCSF Cyberbullying Taskforce, on which representatives of the following organisations sit (in alphabetical order):

Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA)
AOL (UK) limited
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)
Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL)
BBC
Beatbullying
Bebo
Becta
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)
Childnet International
Children's Charities' Coalition for Internet Safety
Cyberspace Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
Fox Interative Media / MySpace
Get Connected
Google / YouTube
Home Office
Kidscape
London Councils
Microsoft (MSN and Windows Live services)
Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
Mobile Broadband Group
Mobile Broadband Group
National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT)
The National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)
National Governors’ Association (NGA)
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
National Union of Teachers (NUT)
O2
Orange
Parent Governors Representatives Network
Professional Association of Teachers (PAT)
The Carphone Warehouse
The Samaritans
T-Mobile UK
Unison
Unit for School and Family Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Vodafone
Yahoo! UK & Ireland
Youth Justice Board (YJB)
York St John University

The Department would also like to thank the staff and pupils at Avenue Primary School, Leicester, and Hamilton Community College, Leicester, for contributing to the development of this guidance.