About Safer Schools NI
Contemporary online safety advice, innovative school information sharing tools and relevant safeguarding guidance is brought together in Safer Schools NI. Safer Schools NI ensures your essential information is available...
Contemporary online safety advice, innovative school information sharing tools and relevant safeguarding guidance is brought together in Safer Schools NI. Safer Schools NI ensures your essential information is available when you need it, where you need it – in your pocket! Designed for whole school communities, Safer Schools NI allows users of all ages to educate and empower themselves and those around them to stay safer on and offline.
To register your school for free now, visit https://saferschoolsni.co.uk/and click “Register Your School”.
HOW IT WORKS?
App users are categorised into ‘roles’ depending on their position within the school community e.g., Safeguarding Lead, Staff, Parents & Carers or Pupils. Each user role is provided with a specific QR, and four-digit entry code supplied by the school (upon organisation registration) to gain access to the App. If they don’t yet have a code, users can access the App by selecting “waiting for a code”.
ONLINE SAFETY GUIDANCE AND RESOURCES
The App contains extensive age-appropriate guidance, resources, and advice on a wide variety of topics, including health & wellbeing, social media, and gaming. Each topic contains quick quizzes and digital tests to evidence and further reaffirm learning.
For school staff, CPD certified training courses are available to take directly within the App. Topics include Safeguarding Level 1, Mental Health Awareness, and Appropriate Use of Social Media.
‘Daily Safeguarding News’ is delivered directly to the App for all school staff.
Access to a weekly round-up news podcast and safeguarding alerts are delivered to staff, parents, and carers.
Teachers receive access to the ‘Teach Hub’, a dedicated library of downloadable resources, created by teachers for teachers for use in the school curriculum.
Parents and Carers receive access to the ‘Home Learning Hub’, the Teach Hub’s counterpart, that ensures safeguarding education doesn’t stop at the school gates!
All users have direct access to the ‘Online Safety Centre’ through their App or on desktop browser that explains how to set parental controls, block, mute, report, and much more, all divided by popular platforms and operating systems.
KEY FEATURES
‘News Builder’ - Allows schools to craft and curate their own digital news content in real time.
‘Push Notifications’ - Communicate important safety messages, news, and announcements directly to staff, parents, carers, and pupil's devices.
‘Digital Noticeboards’ – One way communication from staff members to specific groups such as individual classes, after-school clubs, or parent groups.
‘Travel Tracker’ – Users can choose to share their live location for a limited period of time to trusted contacts when it matters most, such as on school trips, remote working, or walking home alone.
‘Report a Concern’ - Users can report safeguarding concerns 24/7 to a dedicated professional email inbox. These can be completed anonymously.
‘School/Safeguarding directories’ - Interactive Directories allow immediate access to contact details for relevant staff members and signpost to credible help and advice.
‘Report an absence’ – Providing parents and carers with an effective, time-saving solution to inform the school of their child’s absence.
Join our mission to educate, empower and protect our school communities across Northern Ireland, and play your part in keeping children and young people safer on and offline by downloading the app today.
Safer Schools NI is a partnership between the Department of Education and Ineqe Safeguarding Group.
ABOUT INEQE SAFEGUARDING GROUP
A leading independent safeguarding organisation based in the UK. With over 250 years of combined safeguarding expertise and advanced software development capabilities, delivering innovative and unique safeguarding solutions and training.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Safer Schools NI since it was posted on our website on 2023-07-03 13:18:43.
The latest version is 2.1.5 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 12:03:36. See below the changes in each version.
Safer Schools NI version 2.1.5
Updated At: 2024-02-19
Changes: This update includes a number Push Notification changes:
- Fixed an issue where Digital Tests notifications weren't being marked as read
- Fixed an issue on some devices where Push Notifications weren't showing their unread status
Safer Schools NI version 2.1.4
Updated At: 2024-02-13
Changes: This update includes a number of Push Notification updates:
- Better Push Notification navigation handling when user has multiple School/Roles. Now a dialog appears every time to notify users of potential switch of schools.
- Fixed issue when app was opened via Push Notification from dead the navigation would not trigger
And a few other smaller bug fixes.
Safer Schools NI version 2.1.3
Updated At: 2024-02-02
Changes: This update includes our new Storybook feature and a number of bug fixes.
Safer Schools NI version 2.1.2
Updated At: 2024-01-26
Changes: This update includes:
- a fix for News Articles displaying the wrong tag
- a fix for crashes on the Home screen
- a fix for Flowcharts not displaying in certain scenarios
- and a number of other performance enhancements
Safer Schools NI version 2.1.1
Updated At: 2024-01-12
Changes: This update includes a fix for News Articles displaying the wrong tag, a fix for crashes on the Home screen and a number of other performance enhancements.
Safer Schools NI version 2.0.5
Updated At: 2023-11-13
Changes: This update includes an update to flowcharts including new navigation changes. The update also includes major bug fixes across the app.
Safer Schools NI version 2.0.4
Updated At: 2023-10-31
Changes: This update includes a new feature allowing websites to link to external browsers and updates to existing features including filtering options within the directories. The update also includes major bug fixes across the app.
Safer Schools NI version 2.0.1
Updated At: 2023-09-19
Changes: Changed navigation logic on Registration screen and some more bug fixes.
Safer Schools NI version 2.0.0
Updated At: 2023-09-14
Changes: Improved overall App performance and new user interface, making navigation and access to content even easier for everyone.
New features include Latest News, Digital Noticeboards, Travel Tracker, Report a Concern, School / Safeguarding directories, Report an Absence, Unread notifications bell, New school resources, New and updated content and training courses.
Safer Schools NI version 1.2.3
Updated At: 2023-08-30
Changes: Updates to target latest versions of Android and some minor bug fixes
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