JISC Legal : e-Safety

Provide staff with essential guidance to raise e-safety awareness and encourage effective practice.

Whatever the mobile technology use, there are legal issues to consider from the outset of your project and this is a checklist of the main areas to consider in your planning process.

This guidance is designed to help institutions deal with consent management when sharing personal data across and between institutions and external service providers.

In this guide, you’ll find summaries of the key legal considerations of using Facebook in an FE and HE context.

This paper considers the legal issues which arise in relation to the taking of or possession of images (still and moving) of children for use in an Open Education Resource. 

This 12 minute video, created for the JISC Innovation and e-Learning Conference 2010, explores FAQs on the legal aspects of recording lectures. 

Some links to further resources.

There are two legal issues here, the first concerns data protection, and the second concerns your duty of care to employees.

The showing of a film rated 18 to students who are under 18 raises issues of risk and the level of risk the college is willing to take.

 JISC Legal offer you a variety of resources to help you do this ... (cont)

 Again, this is a decision for the college or university. What matters is that issues, procedures and guidance associated with safe online practices are ... (cont)

The purpose of the reforms is to ensure that defamation legislation is fit for modern times.  The Act aims to strike a balance between the right to freedom of expression and the protection of reputation.

The new Education Act 2011 will focus inspection in four ‘core’ areas, one of which is behaviour and safety, which includes e-Safety.

The High Court has ruled that a blogger has no reasonable expectation to anonymity due to the public nature of the activity.

Schools and colleges can assess their own level of e-safety using this online tool.

ACAS guide offers practical tips on the impact of social networking on discipline and grievances, bullying, defamation, data protection and privacy.

With input from JISC Legal, JISC has put out a summary of "Resources to help combat cybercrime" - helping institutions avoid the consequences of being a victim of computer misuse, or being an inadvertent agent in some else's criminal activity.

This publication by JISC infoNet, the Association for Learning Technology and the Higher Education Academy explores whether e-Learning is delivering tangible benefits for learners, teachers and institutions.

Guidance for public sector organisationsaims to make current equality law more consistent, clearer and easier to follow in order to make society fairer.

A course designed to introduce tutors and managers to the issues involved in making information technology safe for learners.

JISC Techdis, a JISC Advance service, works with the HE and FE sector in the UK in the field of accessibility and inclusion.

An aspect report by HM Inspectors on behalf of the Scottish Funding Council to identify approaches and best practice and to make recommendations for improvement.

A report published following the introduction of new vetting and barring legislation affecting college staff, support workers and volunteers.

Checklists to help you review your e-safety approach and provision.

e-Safety resources, including a sample audit and core policy.