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PRESS RELEASE
10 Feb 2010
Intuitive Media and Forensic Software join forces to ensure children’s online safety.
The great challenge for schools is to support children’s learning by giving them access to all the benefits of computers and the Internet, whilst ensuring that they are safe from the dangers - including bullying, exposure to unsuitable material, sexual harassment and predation. Intuitive Media’s solution has been to provide safe havens for children in their online learning communities SchoolNetGlobal, SuperClubsPLUS and GoldStarCafe, delightful learning spaces safety-approved by all UK government education departments, where over one million school children have been learning, communicating and collaborating safely online.
Intuitive Media is now bringing their unique experience in children’s online safety to Forensic Software’s exceptional monitoring system to create an exciting service that will ensure children are safeguarded online, both in school and at home.
Carole Fletcher, Managing Director, Intuitive Media says,
“Our ambition has been to broaden our services to help protect children when they are communicating on their school computers and freely exploring the wide-open Web. With the combination of Forensic Software’s excellent Policy Central Enterprise (PCE) computer and Internet monitoring software, now backed by professional child safety monitoring from Intuitive Media’s Mediation Team, all of whom go through rigorous selection and then months of intensive professional training including child protection training with NSPCC, allows us to offer schools a complete peace-of-mind solution.”
The challenge for schools it’s difficult for busy staff to find the time to monitor the system. But now we can help relieve this burden. Schools using PCE, or those wishing to install the software, can choose to commission Intuitive Media to remotely monitor their pupils and report back to teachers on any potentially serious problems, giving teachers’ peace of mind, saving them precious time and helping schools to keep their children safe on the internet.
PCE continuously scans children’s screens. If it detects that the child is typing or reading any potentially unsafe content, the software captures a screen shot. The software also monitors internet use and allows staff to restrict children to suitable sites and set times when internet access is permitted.
“This alliance is a match made in heaven’” says Ellie Puddle, Marketing Director of Forensic Software. “With this new partnership teachers can now rest easy. Together Forensic Software and Intuitive Media are providing a unique world-leading solution to children’s online safety. We monitor a whole range of subjects, such as cyber bullying to gambling; suicide to self harm and grooming and now we can support this with qualified staff to intervene if a child is at risk. This solution provides the protection children require in the online world and allows Teachers to get on with the job of teaching, confident in the knowledge the children in their care are safe online. As a parent myself, my child’s potential exposure to dangers online are a huge concern. This service provides the one solution at school that concerned parents and teachers are looking for”.
Professor Stephen Heppell, Europe's leading online education expert says,
"I have been working with IM's founders, Robert Hart and Carole Fletcher for over 30 years and there is no one on this planet more capable of creating delightful, engaging and safe learning experiences for children. Over the last 10 years SchoolNetGlobal, SuperClubsPLUS and GoldStarCafe have served over one million school children and not one single child has been hurt. No one, I repeat no one, has such an admirable record of child safety."
www.forensicsoftware.co.uk
www.intuitivemedia.com
www.SuperClubsPLUS.com
www.GoldStarCafe.net
www.SchoolNetGlobal.com
For press information contact:
Carole Fletcher, MD. +44 7970 689835
carole.fletcher@intuitivemedia.com
or
Ellie Puddle, Marketing Director +44 7770 508046
Elliep@forensicsoftware.co.uk
NOTES TO EDITORS
About Intuitive Media:
Intuitive Media (www.intuitivemedia.com) is a BAFTA Award winning company that provides safe online learning services for children, schools and families.IM’s provides the Safe Social Learning Networks – SuperClubsPLUS.com for children aged 6-11 and GoldStarCafe.net for children 11- 14.
Over 1 million children have been registered to the communities in the UK, Australia and 42 other countries. The communities have been safety-approved and are supported by government departments in the UK, and Australia.
IM provides safe “white label” communities for other organisations, who have, on their websites, their own-branded custom communities based on IM’s award-winning software - all safely mediated by Intuitive Media’s expert professional mediation team.
In association with Forensic Software, IM also provides professional child safety monitoring services for schools using the Policy Central Enterprise computer and Internet monitoring system.
www.intuitivemedia.com
+44 8456 808100
About Forensic Software
Forensic Software Limited (FSL) has been involved in the e-safety market for six years, with a software product, PCE, which we have been successfully providing to education, predominantly in the U.K. To date, we are protecting approximately 2 million children in schools every day, keeping them safe online and ensuring their learning experience is maximised.
To complement our work in Education, we launched our home product, CyberSentinel in January 2009. Key Features of both products include
- Time management and access control
- Filtering of web sites (white and black lists)
- Logging of web sites (recording all visited)
- Monitoring chat usage (all sides)
- Word and phrase analysis (detecting those on the black list)
- Screen captures of inappropriate words or phrases
www.forensicsoftware.co.uk
+44 1483 202990
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