e-safe education pioneers early identification of children at risk

The Safeguarding Children Conference 2010, London

On 29^th June 2010: Safeguarding experts, e-safe education (www.esafeeducation.co.uk), will join Directors of Children’s Services at The Safeguarding Children Conference 2010, London, to discuss the latest advanced strategies for predator grooming detection and the education of children and young people.

Child protection expert Terry Jones, IPTAC (Internet Paedophilia Training Awareness Consultancy), will address key issues, including the important role of image detection and contextual phrase threat monitoring technology in helping Local Authorities to properly safeguard children, wherever and whenever they use a computer. His workshop, sponsored by e-safe education, will take place at 1:45pm.

The number of cases involving extreme pornographic and child abuse images has doubled in the last five years, with vast volumes of such imagery now easily accessible on the internet. Directors of Children’s Services are urged to attend this event to hear about the opportunity to use the information and intelligence that is available from computer systems to identify children at risk, make informed decisions and facilitate proportional, early intervention.

For the full programme and list of speakers please click here: http://www.haymarketevents.com/conferenceProgramme/460/identify-risk-early-keep-children-safe.

Trained by CEOP (The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) and employing the latest detection techniques, the e-safe education team works to safeguard children in the digital/online world by monitoring and identifying incidents involving pupils or staff and notifying schools accordingly.

Helping schools and Local Authorities to ensure that every incident, whether an early indicator or a more serious problem, is reviewed and flagged within 24-hours, e-safe education prevents children at risk from slipping through the net. In addition, it avoids placing the burden and risk on the shoulders of a school’s IT Manager who typically neither has the time, nor perhaps the required pastoral expertise, to review and respond to the potentially serious alerts.

Understanding the fast-paced nature of the internet and associated online language, e-safe education’s advanced threat detection libraries are updated monthly by forensic experts working on recent child protection cases. This provides reassurance to Local Authorities that new words, phrases or techniques are identified quickly and incorporated into the protection systems.

Mark Donkersley, Managing Director, e-safe Systems Ltd, comments: “Our community-wide, inclusive approach to e-safety provides Local Authorities with a genuine means of identifying incidents that may be early indicators of threats to a child or young person’s well-being, in addition to educating them about responsible and safe use of technology.”

For further information please contact Colin McKeown at e-safe Systems Ltd: tel: 08444 128 623 / e-mail: colin.mckeown@esafeeducation.co.uk or visit the website: www.esafeeducation.co.uk.

About e-safe education: e-safe education, the UK’s first company to offer forensic monitoring as a ‘managed service’, delivers a holistic, community wide approach to online child protection. Encompassing schools, public libraries and the home, e-safe encourages more responsible IT use and is an effective way to meet safeguarding requirements by providing early warning indicators of threats to young people’s wellbeing.