Lesson video

Hi, my name's Mr. Gee and I am your teacher today for this RSHE lesson on online and media, indecent image sharing.

Today, we're going to focus on reporting and penalties following on from the previous two lessons where we've looked at the definition and the clarification in the law, and different issues and scenarios that could possibly happen.

This lesson will focus on the punishments for sharing images, as well as, looking at how you can report indecent images or more support you can get.

If this is a sensitive topic for you, please check with a trusted adult whether this is at home or at school, before we get started.

All you will need for today's lesson is an exercise book, something to write on, and a pen.

Let's get started.

So in today's lesson, I'd like you to start by completing an intro quiz, which will look at some topics we've completed in previous lessons, as well as, what we're looking at today.

Please complete that successfully and as well as you can, 'cause I'll be looking at your answers.

We will then look at the punishment for image sharing.

This is something we touched on in previous lesson.

I would like us to look at this again because obviously you need to know what the punishments are so you can deter others and, obviously, know the punishments yourself.

We will look at how to report indecent image sharing.

So this is the process of doing it and actually where you can report indecent image sharing too.

This looks at where victims can get support.

So we will look at that later because obviously you may want support yourself and you may want to suggest to someone where they can go and get support.

And then finally, we will finish with an exit quiz where we'll assess what we've learned today and in previous lessons.

And we'll look at some key words from today's lesson.

So indecent is where something is inappropriate in relation to normal behaviour.

So what you would classify as normal behaviour is something in that realm, but obviously, in a negative way.

So it is something that's inappropriate and what you would classify as abnormal, not normal.

Criminalised is where something that is normal is turned into something illegal.

So anything that could be, so it may be taking of images in this sense, okay, people take images every day.

This is something that is obviously turned into a criminal activity due to the content involved.

And deceptive is where someone misleads another person by lying, so you deceive someone.

That is what the word deceptive means.

Moving on.

So moving on, what we're going to look at now is different legislations.

Now a legislation is a group of laws that are put together in order to make sure that they are grouped and they come under different acts, okay.

So what I want you to do here.

I've got four descriptions of legislations and I've got four types of legislation at the bottom.

What I would like you to do is to read the different legislations, the descriptions of them, and match them up.

So you've got legislation one, an act to stop young people being exploited, which of those at the bottom do you think it is? Okay, do you think it's Sexual Offences Act, the Malicious Communication Act, Obscene Publications Act, or the Protection of Children's Act.

I'm going to give you a few minutes to complete this.

This is a good opportunity to pause the video.

This is a good time to pause the video.

So please, if you can pause the video at this point, and then you can match them up, and we'll come back in a few seconds.

So looking at the answers here, the Protection of Children's Act is an act to stop young people being exploited.

The Malicious Communications Act is an act that makes it illegal in England and Wales to send or deliver letters or other articles for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety.

These were brought around years and years ago, but obviously in the development of technology and social media, they've obviously had to add in different laws within that act, within that legislation to combat the issues involving technology.

The Obscene Publications Act, so this criminalises a person who has an obscene image for their own gain.

So that may be to make money, that may be for their own personal use, but it basically, it comes under the Obscene Publications Act.

And the Sexual Offences Act, this one's the most common.

So any sexual offences from children, even adults, that will end up on the Sexual Offences Act, so that comes under that.

So we went through this last lesson.

What is the punishment for sharing indecent images? And there's lots of text on the screen there, but as we discussed, the key point to think about here is it is an offence for a person to take, distribute, possess, or publish indecent photographs of a child under 18.

That includes the person, if you are under 18, the person who has taken an image even if it's of yourself, that is illegal.

It is there to protect young people.

So as it says there, the police work under clear guidance that young people should not be criminalised.

So as much as it's illegal, it's very rare that a person will get a criminal record for sending a nude image of themselves.

The reason it's there is to protect you.

It's to protect young people.

So it's really, really important that you abide by it.

And as it says there, the indecent images offences have a statutory maximum of five years for the possession of images, and 10 years if you distribute, take, or make such images.

So really, really important you understand that.

So I've got a scenario here, and I want you to pause the video after I've talked you through it.

So John has been seeing Izzy for a few weeks.

They are messaging very often, and John sends Izzy an explicit image of himself.

What should Izzy do at this point? So obviously, this is quite an important part of the unit now.

Please pause the video and we'll come back with some ideas in a minute.

So here's some ideas that I came up with after speaking to other teachers as well.

So some of the things that Izzy should do is tell John, obviously, not to send explicit images, and that's the first thing that she should do.

And she should tell John that she won't be sending them back because, obviously, that would put her in a position where she could be in trouble with the law, she could also put herself in risk because he could send them to other people.

She could tell a responsible adult whether that be a teacher, whether that be a parent, a guardian.

She could contact a victim support organisation such as CEOP.

They are with the police, but they look at the online exploitation part of it.

Or she could go really far and report John to the police.

There are some ideas.

You may have got some different ones, but as it says at the bottom, never send explicit images to anyone.

If John persisted in asking people, it could be seen as harassment and Izzy would definitely need to inform a responsible adult or the authority.

Right, so moving on.

Next task, we've got three scenarios.

What would you do in each of these or what do you do in each of these? What do you think you'd do? So scenario one, someone I don't know is asking me to send naked images? Make a note in a minute, what should you do? Scenario two, pressure has been put on me to share naked images.

They're saying if I don't, they'll spread rumours about me.

Pause the video in a minute, make some notes.

And the same with scenario three.

An adult has contacted me asking if I want to meet face to face.

What would you do in each of these? Make a quick note and we'll come back in a minute.

So I've just bullet pointed a couple of things there below.

So in all, well, the first two, you wouldn't send images and you'd report both because the first scenario, you don't know the person, and the second one, they're using harassment, they're using blackmail.

And with scenario one, well, you could block the both of them, really.

But block especially scenario one, because you don't know that person.

Scenario three, an adult has contacted me.

At your age now, you shouldn't be meeting adults face to face, okay.

Unless obviously, you know them really, really well.

But you shouldn't be meeting face to face if you do not know them.

So don't arrange to meet, block the person, report it.

Where can victims get support or report image sharing? So I put a few images below of different places where you could get support.

So CEOP is the police arm of internet safety.

Have a look at them, go on their website, have a look.

Childline, all things, any issues at all to do with children, you can use them.

And then there's a couple of others called Stonewall Youth and The Mix.

Please go on their websites and have a look.

There's plenty on there and there's plenty of support available.

As I've mentioned, CEOP protects children from sexual abuse online.

Young people can report to CEOP if they're worried about something online.

If someone's making sexual comments, threatening, you can get support through them.

There's lots of advice on their Thinkuknow website as well.

So as was mentioned before, Childline, you can go to about anything, all right.

There's lots of advice on their website.

Anything at all you need support with.

So Stonewall supports lesbian, gay, and bisexual, and transgender young people.

There's lots of online advice on that website, and you can go on and search as well.

So The Mix is something slightly different because that goes up to the age of 25.

It has an online chat function, and it has a lot of support about a range of different issues, and that can quite often lead to people sharing images, obviously, even images of an explicit nature.

So please check all of them out.

As we mentioned before, all right, what is the punishment for sharing an indecent image? Basically, you can up to 10 years, but the police work under guidance that they should not be criminalised, these young people.

As it's an offence though, to take, distribute, possess, or publish indecent photographs of a child under the age of 18.

It says at the bottom, however, it's always wrong to share nude images of another young person, especially without their consent.

And in cases like this, there is a possibility that the police would get involved if it's under 18.

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It's been great to have you for these three lessons, and I look forward to working with you again.

Make sure you take the exit quiz to assess how well you've done this lesson because you'll get some feedback, and obviously, you'll be able to see what you know and what you don't know.

And take care, stay safe.

Bye for now.