E-Safety powered by Securus on Safer Internet Day

Today is Safer Internet Day, where several organisations come together to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones amongst children and young people across the world.

The current schooling generation are growing up with mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads at their fingertips as normal and are becoming more and more tuned in with technology. This in itself has hardened children's attitudes and behaviour, as seen in the reports in today's news that 20% of 11-15 year olds have received a sexually explicit text or e-mail in the past year.

One way in which schools can meet their Ofsted requirement for safeguarding and ensure their students are safe whilst online is using E-Safety by Redstor. This solution is powered by Securus and sits silently in the background and monitors everything that occurs on a student's PC without raising immediate alarm and disrupting the lesson if inappropriate content is detected. E-safety by Redstor addresses the pertinent challenge of protecting school children as young as 5 from inappropriate behaviour, content and cyberbullying whilst using ICT and the internet as part of their normal classroom education.

If you'd like to hear more about Securus powered E-Safety by Redstor, then please call our Reading office on +44118 951 5200.

Redstor launches e-safety service

Redstor are pleased to formally announce the launch of our new e-safety service. We are looking forward to discussing this in depth with our education channel partners at BETT show this week, where we have a record high number of appointments and meetings.

Redstor, a leading managed services, cloud storage and IT solutions provider, has today launched a new e-Safety service. Redstor e-Safety will be available to Local Authority and education IT service providers in the UK to help schools protect against the rising threat of cyber bullying.

Redstor will continue to work through its vast network of partners and build upon relationships with over 85 Local Authorities and education service providers to provide this new e-safety service to schools and educational establishments.

Redstor e-Safety, powered by Securus, will ensure a safe online working environment for pupils and teachers by capturing ICT issues and misuse. The service identifies and captures incidents such as cyberbullying, access to harmful web sites, the un-safe or inappropriate use of email, computer programs and online applications.

The launch of Redstor e-Safety comes at a time when Ofsted has highlighted Internet safety and the importance of safeguarding against online bullying and cyber abuse while providing pupils with increased access to Internet based technologies.

The new service captures child protection and behavioral issues such as the use of proxy bypass sites, contact with strangers, inappropriate content uploaded to a school’s network as well as key words indicating self-harm and drugs.

Paul Evans, Managing Director at Redstor, said: “Redstor e-Safety allows pupils and staff to feel more confident about using new technologies, safe in the knowledge the ICT network is monitored and protected.”

Evans continues, “Ofsted has stated that Headteachers must meet a legal duty of care to protect pupils and staff and provide a safe learning environment yet without monitoring technology many schools are unaware if a pupil is at risk on-line. Redstor e-Safety allows Schools and ICT service providers to safely manage any schools ICT network, providing a constant vigil for pupils and staff.”

Intrigued? Redstor will be at stand U23 at BETT, where we will be happy to answer your questions.

BETT 2011

Next week, Redstor will be exhibiting at BETT 2011, the largest education technology exhibition in the world. This will be our 6th consecutive year of exhibiting and is a brilliant way for us to interact with our channel partners in the education sector including Local Authorities and service providers.

At BETT 2011, we will also be formally launching our new Cloud e-safety service, this is a combination of technical training for pupils and content monitoring. Specifically this helps to eliminate cyber bullying, illegal activity, breaches of child safety and enables schools to achieve more than "Satisfactory" mark for the category "Safeguarding" in their annual OFSTED reports.

Paul Evans, Redstor's Managing Director said, "The whole team is highly enthused ahead of BETT, we've got over 60 meetings booked which is a record high for us. We're all very excited to be meeting our existing and new partners to discuss new services to deliver; in particular e-safety which we believe further strengthens our position within education. "

Intrigued? We're at Stand U23 if you'd like to find out more - if you wish to book an appointment to meet with us at BETT then please call 0118 9515 200.