P&C Special Focus Item: Guest Speaker from the Office of the eSafety Commissioner

The school and P&C are pleased to welcome Ms Kellie Britnell from the Office of the eSafety Commissioner to speak with parents prior to the P&C Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 14 November. The eSafety Commissioner is responsible for promoting online safety, and is committed to helping all Australians have safe, positive experiences online.

The Office offers a wide range of services including a complaints service for young Australians who experience serious cyberbullying and processes for identifying and removing illegal online content and for tackling image-based abuse. They also provide informative, practical and up to date resources for students, parents and teachers, on their website: esafety.gov.au/.

Parents may be interested in looking at some of the parenting resources (esafety.gov.au/education-resources/iparent) prior to the evening. There is also a particularly helpful page with information on popular smart phone apps, their potential dangers and how to navigate them safely (esafety.gov.au/esafety-information/games-apps-and-social-networking).

Ms Britnell will be discussing the role of the Office and the services they are able to provide, general cyber-safety awareness for parents, and the legislative framework and intervention powers relating to cyber-bullying/image based abuse.

The session will begin at 6:30pm in the school library, the P&C AGM will begin at 7:30pm. All parents are welcome, we hope to see as many of you there there as possible.

Joel Morrison
Deputy Principal