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Highlights of previous SSBA conferences :-

2008 Safe Internet Use

2007 Developing a Parent Council and Encouraging Parental Involvement

2006 The Way Forward for Parental Involvement

2005 Parents in Partnership

2003 Partnerships and responsibilities

2002 SSBA is fit for the future

2001 Roadshow

2000 International
and published book
available here online

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‘Safe Internet Use – Do you know who your child is speaking to?’

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SSBA's Annual Conference 2008 took place on Saturday 10 May, 2008.

Here are details of the key speaches :-

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Maureen Watt, Scottish Minister for Schools and Skills sent a message to us.

Maureen Watt's Message

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Lorraine Sanda, Parental Involvement Co-ordinator, of Learning and Teaching Scotland
spoke on the subject of Parental Involvement in Scotland

Lorraine Sanda's presentation

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One of the main topics to be covered at the Conference was around internet safety/safe social
networking (eg Facebook types of sites) as we feel children use them regularly but their parents
tend not to be up to speed with them.

 In this respect, we were delighted to be able to bring you Helen Penn (Head of Education) -
an expert from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre -
a Government run, multi-faceted child protection agency forthe UK. 
(They were featured in a Panorama television programme which they
took part in covering online safety, shortly before the conference.)

Visit www.thinkuknow.co.uk/teachers and register with the website.
Once your account has been verified you may be able to access a number of our resources.

The link below is very relevant to this matter and may be of interest to you:-
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/operational-policing/keeping-children-safe-1?view=Binary

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To continue with the ‘safety’ theme, we also covered Health and Safety issues in schools
and were pleased that Jeff Hardman, from European Education Consultants provided a
presentation on this at the Conference.

Jeff Hardman's presentation

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GLOW - Maria Dougan, Programme Director for GLOW,
Learning Teaching Scotland

Awaiting - Maria Dougan's presentation