§ Dan NorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what guidance the Government are giving about ensuring that children at school are unable to access inappropriate material on the internet. [111156]
§ Mr. WillsWe are determined that pupils should be protected from unsuitable material while accessing the wealth of educationally valuable material on the internet. DfEE and the British Educational Communications and Technology agency (BECTa) have produced a detailed information pack for teachers and parents about pupils' safe use of the internet. The Superhighway Safety pack, which is available free and is also on the National Grid for Learning, provides guidance on the wide range of measures which schools can adopt. These range from using walled gardens and filtering software, to monitoring and tracking pupil access and providing user contracts for pupils, spelling out how they should behave.