Bio

I manage LGfL's safeguarding and cybersecurity centres of excellence under the DigiSafe and CyberCloud brands. We look after a community of over 3,000 schools in London and across the UK. Wherever education and technology meet, that's where you will find LGfL; my remit within that is to help keep children safe and schools secure. This protection can be divided into two broad areas: the technology we deliver to schools (such as filtering 2 billion URLs / 2 million emails daily) and the human element (education and training for staff and students). As part of my role I sit on various national bodies including the UKCCIS Education Working Group, helping to shape national policy and stay abreast of the latest issues to share with schools across the LGfL network. The LGfL Safeguarding Board which I chair helps ensure that a broad range of expertise informs the LGfL educational and technological approach. A typical day might include planning a webinar, training course or our conference for 400 designated safeguarding leads; it might be working with a national body to plan support for teachers, pupils or parents; it could be sitting in a pupil focus group or working on one of our nationwide research projects; it could be working with technical teams to scope improvements to key protective technologies; or fielding emails from schools whilst updating a policy, sending a tweet/blog/newsletter storm, all whilst adding to our resource portal and writing lesson materials. And probably a thousand other things… Two key research projects I ran for online safeguarding and cybersecurity are at https://pupilsurvey.lgfl.net and https://securityaudit.lgfl.net Find out more about LGfL DigiSafe: https://twitter.com/LGfLDigiSafe https://safeblog.lgfl.net https://safenewsletter.lgfl.net https://saferesources.lgfl.net Find out more about LGfL CyberCloud: https://twitter.com/LGfLCyberCloud https://cybersecuritynews.lgfl.net