Survey results are now available

Over 500 people completed the online survey - which means that we can have a lot of confidence in the results. The main points of interest are:

• 95% of respondents were "somewhat" or "very" concerned about Internet safety
• 80% of centres had an Internet safety policy but...
• one third of those centres "sometimes" or "never" enforced it
• 40% of centres provided some form of Internet safety training but...
• this was "informal" in 80% of those centres.

The main areas of concern among respondents were:

• downloading inappropriate material
• accessing inappropriate material
• making inappropriate friendships.

I was very pleased that over 90% of respondents were interested in a qualification in this area - and most respondents wanted it at SCQF level 4 for lower school (S1-S3) pupils.

The proposed qualification will be revised to reflect these findings. A draft version of the unit specification will be available later this week.