Note: ✓ The terms ‘child’ or ‘children’ apply to anyone under the age of 18

       ✓ The term ‘parent’ applies to anyone with guardianship of caring and parental responsibility for the child    

         ✓ The term ‘staff’ applies to members of staff and volunteers

         ✓ The term ‘public’ applies to any member of the public using the facilities

 

Our online safety statement

 

This policy provides guidance on how our organisation uses the internet and social media, and the procedures for doing so. It also outlines how we expect the staff who work for us, the children who are members of our academy and the public booking the facility, to behave online.

 

As an organisation, we commit to implementing this policy and addressing any concerns quickly and within these guidelines.

 

Aims

 

The aims of our online safety policy are:

 

✓ To protect all children involved with our organisation and who make use of  technology

✓ To provide staff with policy and procedure information regarding online safety and inform them how to respond to incidents

✓ To ensure our organisation is operating in line with our values and within the law regarding how we behave online

✓ To provide the public with policy and procedure information regarding online safety

 

 

Understanding the online world

 

As part of using the internet and social media, our organisation will:

 

✓ Assess and manage the safety aspects- including what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour for staff and children when using websites, social media including Facebook, Instagram.

✓ Be aware of how staff in our organisation and the children they work with use social media both inside and outside of our setting

✓ Ensure we adhere to relevant legislation and good practice guidelines when using social media.

 

Managing our online presence

 

✓ Any posts or correspondence will be consistent with our aims and tone as an organisation

✓ Parents will be asked to give approval for us to communicate with their children through social media.

✓ Parents will need to give permission for photographs or videos of their child to be posted on social media

✓ We’ll make sure children are aware of who manages our social media accounts and who to contact if any concerns about something that’s happened online

 

Social media manager

Zach Harrop

Zachharrop@bramcoteathletics.co.uk

 

 

What we expect of our staff

 

✓ Staff should be aware of this policy and behave in accordance with it

✓ Staff should seek the advice of the designated safeguarding lead if they have any concerns about the use of the internet or social media

✓ Staff should not communicate with children via personal accounts

✓ Staff should not friend or follow children from personal accounts on social media and maintain the same professional boundaries online as they would in person when using organisation accounts

✓ Staff should make sure any content posted on public personal accounts is accurate and appropriate, as children may ‘follow’ them on social media

✓ Rather than communicating with parents through personal social media accounts, staff should choose a more formal means of communication, such as face-to-face, in an email or in writing, or use an organisational account or website

✓ Staff should avoid communicating with children via email or organisational social media outside of normal

✓ Staff should not delete any messages or communications sent to or from organisation accounts

✓ Any concerns reported through social media should be dealt with in the same way as a face-to-face disclosure, according to our reporting procedures

 

 

 

What we expect of children

 

 ✓ Children should be aware of this online safety policy and agree to its terms

 

 

 

What we expect of parents

 

 ✓ Parents should be aware of this online safety policy and agree to its terms

 ✓ Parents should protect all children’s privacy online and think carefully about what content they share about our sport online, where they share it and who they’re sharing it with

 

 

 

What we expect of the public

 

✓ The public should be aware of this online safety policy and agree to its terms