Staff Training – Supporting Links, Documents & Resources
School Guidance
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1: KCSIE – Filtering and Monitoring
In July 2023, the UK Safer Internet Centre on behalf of the Department for Education carried out a series of webinars to inform and support organisations across England with their filtering and monitoring responsibilities. This was to prepare and inform schools around the new changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2023) as well the new filtering and monitoring standards introduced in early 2023. This page includes all recordings of the webinars along with supporting information, guidance, services and tools to support organisations within this field.
https://swgfl.org.uk/resources/filtering-and-monitoring/
2: DFE – Teaching Online Safety In Schools
Guidance supporting schools to teach pupils how to stay safe online within existing subjects.
3: Refuge and risk – Life online for vulnerable young people
This report provides insight into 6500+ UK children with some form of vulnerability, how the online world has become their lifeline. Some are up to 7 times more likely to meet particular dangers of the Internet then they’re nonvulnerable peers.
4: Vulnerable children in the digital world
This report provides insight into the online world of the U.K.’s most valuable children.
5: Harmful Online Challenges and Online Hoaxes
Advice for schools and colleges to support their approach to harmful online challenges and hoaxes.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/harmful-online-challenges-and-online-hoaxes
6: Sharing Nudes and Semi-Nudes (2024 Update):
Advice for educational settings work with children and young people. Guidance on responding to incidences and safeguarding children and young people.
7: Education for a Connected World
A framework to equip children and young people for digital life
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-for-a-connected-world
8: Challenging victim blaming language
This guidance has been produced by the UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) Education Working Group, on behalf of UKCIS.
9: School Online Safety Policy Templates
Templates designed by SWGLF Online safety experts which you can customise for your school
https://swgfl.org.uk/resources/online-safety-policy-templates/
10: The Stay Safe Initiative CIC ‘My Online Life’ Pupil Survey (KS2)
Use our template to find out more about your pupils online lives. Make sure your pupils know this is an anonymous survey and please ask them to feel this out in private.
https://thestaysafeinitiative.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/KIDS-SURVEY.pdf
11: The new face of digital abuse
Children’s experiences of nude deepfakes (full report below)
12: Protecting your setting’s images from AI manipulation and abuse:
Developed by the UK Online Harms Early Warning Working Group, this guidance shares best practice and considerations for education settings and organisations working with children and young people on the use of photos and videos across their online platforms, to address the risk of AI image manipulation.
https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/image-guidance-for-education-settings
School, Staff & Parent Support
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1: CEOP
Child Exploitation and Online Protection
https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/
2: Professionals Online Safety Helpline
Supportive professionals working with children and young people with any online issue they may be having.
https://saferinternet.org.uk/professionals-online-safety-helpline
3: Check your Internet connection blocks child abuse and terrorist content
https://swgfl.org.uk/services/test-filtering/
4: The Stay Safe Initiative CIC
Parenting in the Digital World Resource Pack
5: Parenting in the Digital World – Getting help Video
This short video comes from out 11 part ‘Parenting in the Digital World’ video series, made for Primary schools. This clip has been taken from our ‘Getting Help’ section.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfjT_CTYuI
6: Internet Matters
Help your parents keep their children safe online
https://www.internetmatters.org/
7: Common Sense Media
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
8: UK Safer Internet Centre
Helping children and young people stay safe online.
9: SWGFL (South West Grid for Learning)
10: Swiggle – Your Child Friendly Search Engine
11: Childnet
Help, advice and resources for teachers, professionals, parents and young people
12: Report Remove Tool
Report Remove is here to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.
https://www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/bullying-abuse-safety/online-mobile-safety/report-remove/
Helping young people navigate through their digital journey!