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Introducing Digital Safeguarding Technology

A Complete Guide for Australian School Leaders

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Welcome

The internet is an incredible resource which enables students to learn, connect and be creative in a multitude of ways.

However, the digital landscape has changed dramatically since the pandemic. The increase in negative online behaviours immediately after the lock downs has not recoiled as hoped, meaning young people now need more help to properly navigate their digital lives in a safe and self-directed manner. 

Linewize is working with schools around the world to help them adjust their digital wellbeing practices, and refocus students back to learning and back to more responsible online behaviours. For more information please contact us.

What is Digital Safeguarding Technology?

What a student does, says, or shares in their digital life can expose them to harm or reveal other concerns they may be experiencing. Because a child’s digital world is commonly off limits to responsible adults, these risks slip under the radar, and school leaders and parents are powerless to intervene.

Digital Safeguarding Technology makes invisible risks visible. It enables schools to intervene fast, remove the student from harm’s way and guide them back on track.

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How it works

Digital Safeguarding Technology is both a software and a service. An agent sits on the student’s school-owned device and is only activated when there is a suspected risk to a student’s wellbeing, health or life based on what they do, say or share.

The technology immediately removes false positives and grades the risk. Low risks go into a portal for the school to review the next time they log in. Higher risks are sent to a team of highly trained human moderators who assess the authenticity of the risk and grade its severity. If the risk is high, they will email your school’s nominated staff to alert them. If the risk is very high, including danger to health or life, they will phone them 24/7. This happens within minutes of the risk being detected.

Why are schools around the world adopting
Digital Safeguarding Technology?

The pandemic has given rise to major changes impacting student wellbeing:

  1. A rise in online risk and dangers to children 
  2. Children are spending more time online than ever before
  3. Parents are now recognising the risks
  4. Parents are ill-equipped to deal with it by themselves

When it comes to addressing any of these challenges, there is a major hindering factor -  which is a cloak of invisibility.

When a student becomes vulnerable online there can be clues staff or parents can see with eyes and ears alone. 

However, there are many more clues inside the child’s digital world, to which parents and schools have little if any access and which can be impossible to see.  We call it the Iceberg Effect. 

Digital Safeguarding Technology helps make invisible risks visible.

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By using Digital Safeguarding Technology to help make invisible risks visible pastoral staff can initiate faster interventions. They can remove students from imminent danger and minimise incident escalation. They can use the insights gained to educate students and guide them to more responsible, self-directed behaviours.

 

Risks to children online are increasing

Students in Australia spend more time on digital devices than ever before, and the associated risks to their mental health are rising in accordance.

Self-harm

1 in 3 Australian adolescents have considered self-injury.
15 per cent of young Australians have attempted self-harm.

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Mental health issues

4 in 5 young Australians have experienced mental health issues in the last two years.

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Cyberbullying

1 in 5 young Australians are being socially excluded, threatened or abused online.

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Grooming & exploitation

eSafety Commission reported a 129% increase in reports of child sexual exploitation material in 2020.

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Sexting / nudes

Research shows 1 in 3 Australian kids experienced sexting in some way.

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Suicide

Suicide is the leading cause of death for people aged between 15–24. 1 in 4 young Australians have thought about suicide over the past two years.

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By making invisible risks visible, school leaders can enhance lives, change lives and save lives.

It’s that simple.

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Benefits of Digital Safeguarding Technology

For Students

Students are protected 24/7, 365 days a year.

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Early detection means early intervention and more positive outcomes for the student.

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Prevents at-risk students from going unnoticed or noticed too late.

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Events affecting academic performance can be spotted and addressed early.

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Saves student lives.

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For Schools

Avoids incident escalation and reputational damage.

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Saves the cost and administrative burden of employing dedicated teams to review risks.

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Positions a school as a leader in student safety and wellbeing.

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Provides parents with peace of mind that any unseen risks with their child can be spotted.

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Provides evidence to support digital wellness education and helps to develop digitally savvy students.

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Linewize Monitor - A Closer Look

Linewize Monitor protects over 2.6 million students.


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Using a combination of AI and a team of highly trained human moderators, Linewize Monitor - our world leading Digital Safeguarding Technology - finds and assesses students at risk based on what they do or say in their digital lives.

Real-time proactive monitoring

User activity is human moderated in real-time, alerting any risks and allowing for early intervention.


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Intuitive and simple interface

Incidents are displayed clearly allowing you to quickly evaluate any concerns.

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Artificial intelligence

Our automated “first layer” of intelligence ensures alerts are timely and effective, highlighting issues that a 100% human moderated product could miss.

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Risk assesses the entire screen

The only solution of its kind to risk assess the full screen, not just the URL; dramatically reducing false positives and providing valuable detail when deciding on the most appropriate support intervention.

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Works online and offline

Works offline, capturing risk events even when the device is disconnected from the internet. When the device re-connects, data is transmitted to Linewize Monitor for analysis.

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Appropriate alerting

Choose an alerting configuration that suits both the school and students and ensure pastoral staff only receive the alerts they require.

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Linewize Monitor assesses student digital wellbeing risks in more categories than any other solution.

Cyberbullying

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Suicide

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Oversharing

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Drugs

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Abuse

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Extremism

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Violence

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Digital Safeguarding WEBINAR

Think you’re doing all you can to protect your students AND your school from digital risk?
Think again!


Your school’s filter, firewall and/or reporting tools, though important, are simply no longer enough to root out all harmful digital behaviours. Discover how Linewize Monitor helps you to:

  • Uncover risks at an earlier stage to enable faster, easier and more effective deescalations - before impact is felt.
  • Eliminate false positives and dramatically reduce pastoral and IT workloads.
  • Target support interventions more powerfully, ensuring students get the right kind of help at the right time.
  • Educate the whole community to minimise future incidents.
  • Take a significant and proactive stance to minimise reputational risk.

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Next Steps

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Complete Guide to Digital Safeguarding Technology

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