Ben Walmsley

the evidence revealed matters giving rise to concern ; In my opinion there is During the course of the inquest is taken: In the circumstances it is my statutory duty to a risk that future deaths will occur unless action report to you into Bens death it emerged that on a number %f davs in the month prior During the course of the investigation Phillips Secondary school) computers "how to kill myself to his death he had searched on the school (St "how to tie a noose' why shouldn't commit suicide" the Court that the school filters are accessed via Smoothwall which provides age It was explained to Ben could not access these pages as they were blocked there was no appropriate filtered content Whilst school tO be made aware that a pupil may have attempted to search mechanism in place at the time for the for such pages that at the time of Ben's death the only monitoring was in lessons andWas solelr The Court heard evidence students were doing: The school has 900 pupils and the Court reliant on the teacher trying to watch what to access blocked content Not all of these heard in any one day there can be 12,000 attemptsi bv pupils relate to social media pages would be as concerning as the content Ben was trying to access, some may which the school does not allow. provided to the Court that since Ben's death_Smoothwallhave now upgraded functionality Evidence was and aged set and and blocked high Tisk safeguarding categories are attempting to be staffnow receive notifications when accessed. identified members of staff. Since this installation These alerts are "real time notifications and go to three similar sites to Ben and have taken action staefhave been notified of two other children attempting t0 acceort to aspeakeo €herand also to speak to their parents to offer support is mandatory for all schools or indeed whether other software However it is not known if this functionality providers who are used by schools have this consider disseminating this information; this is of course a If schools do not have this facility you may wish to matter for yourself.