Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, and East Lothian Council have become the latest LEAs to purchase authority-wide purchases of Keeping Myself e-Safe, This brings the total number of authorities now using the resource to 17.  

Keeping Myself e-Safe has been purchased for use in all 96 Barnsley schools, and all 42 East Lothian schools.  The full list of LEAs with authority-wide site licences is listed below:

Dominic Tester, Assistant Head Teacher at Costello Technology College in Basingstoke has been looking at Keeping Myself e-Safe (for secondary schools).

In his conclusion he finds Keeping Myself e-Safe to be a "worthwhile investment for any school" and he "would recommend this resource to all schools, whether they are looking at creating an online E-Safety course or developing it within the PSHE/Citizenship curriculum."

Click here to read the full review on his blog.

Update - the West Lothian publication from Education and Cultural Services

Orkney Islands Council has become the latest LEA to purchase Keeping Myself e-Safe.  The resource will now be used in all 23 of Orkney’s primary and schools.  This brings to 15 the number of LEAs who have an authority-wide site licence of Keeping Myself e-Safe.  The others are:

• Birmingham
• Coventry
• Dudley
• Herefordshire
• Sandwell
• Shropshire
• Solihull
• Staffordshire
• Stoke on Trent
• Telford & Wrekin
• Walsall
• Warwickshire
• Wolverhampton
• Worcestershire

Learning Curve Education is delighted to announce the launch of Keeping Myself e-Safe, which has been designed to help young people understand how to stay safe when using the internet and other digital technologies.  This innovative and engaging resource contains animated films which can be delivered within a VLE or from DVD.
Keeping Myself e-Safe is available for both primary schools and secondary schools.

Learning Curve continues to embrace social networking as an effective way to communicate with our customers.  As part of this approach, we are offering those schools or teachers who follow us on Twitter a specially discounted price for Keeping Myself e-Safe.

Keeping Myself e-Safe (Primary)
Site licence: £125
Price to Twitter followers: £99

Keeping Myself e-Safe (Secondary)
Site licence: £225
Price to Twitter followers: £199

To qualify for these discounts:

1.  The school or teacher must be following @lcurve on Twitter

2.  DM @lcurve to say that an order is to be placed, and ensure that the school name is included in the message

3.  Place an order in the usual way, but quote the special Twitter prices on any purchase order

4.  This offer is valid until 31st May 2009

Please ReTweet to anyone who may be interested.