Privacy and Child Protection Policy

Using our website

My Learning Child Protection Policy
My Learning fully recognizes its responsibilities for child protection. Our policy applies to all those employed in a free-lance, temporary or permanent capacity involved in creating content for My Learning.
My Learning will respect and comply with an individual school’s child protection policy.

• Ensuring we practice safe recruitment in checking the suitability of facilitators and staff who have contact with children and are involved in the creation of content for the website.
• Ensuring that content creators for the website who have contact with children have a recent Enhanced Disclosure CRB certificate.
• If a content creator does not have an Enhanced Disclosure CRB certificate ensuring that an application through the procedure set up by employing services of the Renaissance Yorkshire Hub is made.
• Ensuring that staff and facilitators are aware of child protection issues through induction processes led by My Learning content managers.
• Make provision for further training about child protection issues as appropriate.

Supporting secure learning environments

• Ensuring the environment in content creator work with children is a safe one and that it is an environment in which children can learn and develop.
• My Learning content creators will work with teachers to encourage that pupils are educated to be responsible users and are adequately supervised whilst using computers in schools.
• The content of My Learning will adopt an ethos, which promotes a positive, supportive and secure learning environment that gives children a sense of being valued.
• My Learning content creators will support the schools it works with by respecting school behaviour policies that aim to support vulnerable pupils in the school.
• My Learning content creators will seek to be aware of a school’s liaison with other agencies that support the pupil such as social services, Child and Adult Mental Health Service, education welfare service and educational psychology service.
• My Learning content creators will work with schools to ensure that appropriate risk assessments are carried out should it be necessary for pupils to go out of school for the purposes of content creation.

Press, publicity and the internet

• My Learning will endeavor to ensure that each school and community group its content creators work with has a Child Protection Policy
• My Learning content creators will ensure that schools and community groups it works with are aware of Internet safety issues.
• My Learning content creators will ensure that each school and community group it works with is shown this policy.
• My Learning content creators will suggest that schools and community groups follow good practice guidelines recommended by BECTa:

1. http://www.becta.org.uk/

2. http://www.besafeonline.org/

3. http://www.childnet-int.org/default.aspx

• My Learning content creators will work with schools and community groups to ensure that permissions are obtained from parents or carers for the publication of images for print or web publication, whether those images are used as learning tools or for publicity or marketing purposes.
• Whenever possible only group photos or backs of children’s heads will be shown. Only with the permission from the parent or carer will images where a child can be recognised be published.

Intellectual policy

You may copy material and print images from this website unless the copyright information states that this is not allowed.

Linking policy

You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site.
My Learning is not responsible for the contents or reliability of any site to which it is linked and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Linking to or from this site should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We do not guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

Virus protection

Disclaimer

Privacy Policy

If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the My Learning website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address that is automatically recognised by the web server.

We do not use cookies for collecting user information. We will not collect any information about you except your IP address, which is used to record the number of visitors and to our site.

Personal data (i.e. information which could identify you) submitted to the My Learning website will only be used to respond to your feedback. We will not pass it on to any third party without your consent.

This privacy statement only covers the My Learning website. This statement does not cover links within this site to other websites