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Online Safety Incident Flowchart involving staff as victims
For Headteachers, Senior Leaders and Online Safety Coordinators
All incidents should be reported to the Headteacher and/ or
If you feel unable to report an incident to
Governors/Directors/Owners who will: your HT you could talk to a member of
SLT
• Record in the school Online Safety Incident Log
• Keep any evidence – printouts and/ screen shots
• Use the ‘Report Abuse’ button, if appropriate
• Consider including the Chair of Governors and/ or reporting the
incident to the Governing Body/Directorate
Parents/ carers as instigators Pupils as instigators
Follow some of the steps below:
Contact the person and invite into school Staff as instigator Follow some of the steps below: Follow some of the steps below:
and discuss using some of the examples • Identify the pupil involved
below: • Contact Schools HR for initial advice and/ or contact Schools Online
Safety Adviser in all serious cases this is the first step. • Ask pupil to remove offensive material.
o You have become aware of • Contact the member of staff and request the offending material be Refer to the signed Acceptable Use
discussions taking place online… removed immediately. (In serious cases you may be advised not to Agreement.
o You want to discuss this discuss the incident with the staff member) If the perpetrator refuses to remove the
o You have an open-door policy so • Refer to the signed ICT Acceptable Use Agreement, Professional material and is under 13 contact the Social
Network who will close the account
disappointed they did not approach Code of Conduct and consider if this incident has an impact on the
• Take appropriate actions in line with
you first Contract of Employment of the member of staff.
school policies/ rules
o They have signed the School
• Inform parents/ carers if serious or
Acceptable Use Agreement which
persistent incident
clearly states … For serious incidents or further advice:
o Request the offending material be Further contact to support staff include:
removed. • Inform your Local Police
• District School Effectiveness Adviser DSEA Neighbourhood Team
• If this does not solve the problem:
o Consider involving the Chair of • Schools Online Safety Adviser • Anti-Bullying Adviser If the child is at
Governors • Schools HR risk talk to your school DSP (Child
• You may also wish to send a letter to • School Governance Protection Officer) who may decide to
contact LADO
the parent • Police
The HT or Chair of Governors can be the single point
of contact to coordinate responses.
• The member of staff may also wish to take advice
from their union
