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Safety Policy
Childnet has made very effort to ensure that the interactive activities
provided through Net Detectives are fun and safe for children to
use in the classroom.
In particular we have taken the following steps:
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No teacher (or school) can register for an activity without
offline verification by the Childnet team of his or her bona
fides.
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The Action Centre where live exchanges take place is only
open for individual activities at specified times, and will
only be open when an adult expert moderator (see 3) is present.
Children cannot use the interactive features of the Net Detectives
site on their own.
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All communication through the Net Detectives Action Centre
is moderated i.e. any message sent by a school team is first
approved by an adult expert in the Control Centre before being
posted to the global message area where every participant
can see it. This allows any inappropriate or frivolous messages
to be filtered out.
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There is no facility for student teams to communicate directly
with each other through the Net Detectives web site.
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Participants are discouraged from providing personal details,
and only the Project Manager will have access to the e-mail
addresses of teachers participating in the activity. Individual
children's e-mail addresses are not required.
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Moderators are selected for their educational and law enforcement
experience, and have been subject to child protection checks.
Specialist exercises may require some external experts but
these will always operate under the supervision of the Childnet
Project Manager, a retired police officer.
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Childnet has also developed general Internet safety resources about
children's use of the Internet for parents, teachers and children
themselves. See www.kidsmart.org.uk
for details.
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