Daily Safeguarding Update

Music teacher who appeared on BBC’s The Voice jailed after sharing child abuse images

Paul Rajasegaram, 33, was jailed for more than two years on Wednesday, 19th May.
He was arrested at the school where he worked in January 2018 and his laptop was seized from his home.
Rajasegaram admitted five counts of making and distributing child abuse images.
Judge Gregory Perrins said it was “especially concerning” that Rajasegaram “readily and enthusiastically engaged in conversations about the sexual abuse of children who were in your care”.
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Apple announced a variety of new and updated features for people with disabilities.
Customers can use the new SignTime sign language interpreter service to contact AppleCare and retail customer care through their web browsers.
The new SignTime service is launching first in the US, UK, and France, and offers remote interpreter access for American, British and French Sign Language.
People with physical impairments will be able to use Assistive Touch on watchOS, which should enable them to use their Apple Watch without touching the screen.
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School parents’ evenings are likely to remain virtual beyond the pandemic, the UK Government’s education catch-up tsar has pledged.
Sir Kevan Collins told the Lord’s Youth Unemployment Committee that video calls were a “better way” to conduct the evenings.
The National Association of Head Teachers said it hoped to see a hybrid model for such events in the future.
One Mumsnet user wrote: “It worked brilliantly. We spoke to every teacher in under an hour. Normally, it would take the whole evening. We live over 20 miles from school so [it is] 30 minutes in the car each way.”
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Amouranth, one of Twitch’s most popular streamers said the livestreaming service has cut her off from advertising revenue, even though she has not broken any rules.
She is known for her video streams from a hot tub, wearing swimwear, which is permitted under Twitch’s own rules.
It is the latest landmark in a long-running row over so-called “hot tub streamers” and their high profile on Amazon-owned Twitch, which traditionally focused on game-streaming content.
Twitch policies say that “sexually suggestive content” is banned, but its examples include suggestive camera framing, groping certain body parts, or “erotic dances, such as those involving stripping”
In a stream on Wednesday after the ban, Amouranth told her viewers that her ad revenue “was making me $30,000 a month” and was much higher than the amount she received from direct donations from viewers.
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