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Online safety survey launched

​Schools are being invited to evaluate their pupils’ skills in online safety while also helping to inform wider education policy by signing up to the Pupil Online Safety Survey.

Run by the London Grid for Learning and the NSPCC, the survey is open to all schools to take from February 1 to 28 and has been launched to coincide the Safer Internet Day on February 6.

Questions cover the three Cs – content, contact and conduct – and touch upon topics including live streaming, gaming online, viewing and sharing content, spending money online, and meeting people online.

Schools can access the results for their own school as well as the national statistics once the survey is complete. The aim is to allow schools to identify specific needs for their pupils.

The survey was last conducted in 2015 with 22,000 pupils taking part. It found, among other things, that high numbers of underage pupils were accessing 18-plus rated video games.

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