As AI becomes an increasingly visible part of learning, digital culture, and everyday life, schools must balance its potential benefits with safeguarding, ethical, and data protection responsibilities. This course introduces educators to the responsible and effective use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools.
This session equips coaches, activity leaders, and safeguarding leads with the knowledge and practical skills to carry out meaningful risk assessments that reflect the unique challenges of their environment.
This training session equips school staff with the latest understanding of how to identify, respond to, and support mental health and wellbeing concerns in children and young people.
This course is designed for professionals working in health, social care, education, and community settings to provide them with a clear and accessible overview of adult safeguarding responsibilities.
This course explores the key online risks children and young people face today, including harmful content, contact, and conduct. School staff will be guided through current trends in online behaviour, including the use of social media and messaging apps, and how these can impact safeguarding concerns. We’ll unpack how a whole-school approach can embed online safety into everyday practice, aligned with inspection standards, curriculum guidance and safeguarding frameworks.
As online risks continue to evolve, effective filtering and monitoring systems have become essential in maintaining a safe and supportive digital environment in schools and colleges. This course supports school leaders, safeguarding professionals, and IT staff to understand and apply national guidance, including the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education and the DfE’s Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges.
This training session provides participants with a clear understanding of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a form of child abuse and gender-based violence. It explores the cultural, social, and psychological context surrounding the practice and equips professionals with the knowledge and confidence to identify, respond to, and safeguard those at risk.
Abuse between children and young people can take many forms - physical, sexual, emotional, and increasingly, online. This course explores the complex dynamics of child-on-child abuse, including how environmental, social, and digital factors contribute to harmful behaviours.
Foster carers provide safety, stability, and emotional support that can be life-changing for children and young people in care. In today’s digital world, that care must also extend online, where the risks for looked-after children are often greater. Their lived experiences can increase vulnerability to manipulation, grooming, exposure to harmful content, and other online harms. This course offers practical insights into the digital behaviours of children in care, tools to build digital resilience, and clear guidance for safe, appropriate responses to online concerns.
From viral trends and social media influencers to immersive gaming and anonymous chat apps, young people’s digital lives are constantly changing. This session offers a clear and current look at the online world as it really is for children and young people today.
Consent is a vital part of healthy relationships - yet young people are often exposed to inconsistent messages about what it really means. This course explores the legal, social, and cultural context of consent, including how its understanding has evolved over time.
Understand the signs, risks, and support pathways for young people experiencing suicidal ideation. Explore why young people may display self-harm behaviours, and how you can support them.
The digital world is designed to capture attention—and keep it. In this course, we’ll explore how social media platforms, games, and streaming services are engineered to be engaging, and how this can lead to compulsive or unhealthy use among children and young people.
The session explores common online risks, including exposure to inappropriate content, contact from strangers, and challenges around screen time. Parents and carers will also be guided through practical tools such as safety settings, parental controls, and how to access platform-specific support to help protect their children online.
This bespoke, scenario-based course helps organisations test their ability to respond effectively to major incidents that could impact the safety of children, young people, and staff. Delegates will build confidence in strategic crisis response, multi-agency working, and employing a safeguarding first approach to decision-making.
Designed with Ofsted or independent inspection in mind, the training provides schools with an overview of contemporary safeguarding issues both online and offline for teachers, staff, students, parents and carers.
Safer recruitment is a vital part of protecting children, young people, and adults at risk. This training equips participants with the knowledge and practical tools to make informed recruitment decisions that deter unsuitable individuals, uphold legal requirements, and strengthen safeguarding culture within their organisation.
This course considers the key elements required in a good safeguarding children policy, the importance of law/regulation, good practice and organisational context. It also provides an overview of the key elements required to deliver quality safeguarding audits or self assessments.
These courses are designed to help you understand how children and young people engage online, the risks they are exposed to and the actions you can take to keep them safe.
An interactive learning experience which provides an insight into the way young people engage and interact with social media, through the use of physical cards, participants learn how to identify and mitigate risks.
This course equips church officers to assess and manage risks posed by individuals, including those who have sexually harmed. Training covers implementing safety plans and emphasises the importance of communication, collaboration, monitoring procedures and enhancing knowledge of relevant policies for a safer church environment.
Youth ministry in the digital age demands online safety expertise. This course provides leaders with essential knowledge to tackle grooming, cyberbullying, and harmful content. Learn to build safe online spaces, develop vital policies, and use technology responsibly for effective ministry.
Images and videos are increasingly used as tools to exploit, groom, and control young people. This course explores how imagery is weaponised through threats, blackmail, and coercion, in contexts such as sextortion, child on child abuse, gang exploitation, and county lines activity.
County lines is a form of criminal exploitation that affects young people across both urban and rural communities – and increasingly begins online. This course explores how the county lines model operates and how children are groomed, manipulated, and controlled through a mix of in-person and online tactics.
In a world where personal and professional lives are increasingly visible online, it’s essential that staff understand how to navigate social media safely and responsibly. This course explores the features of popular social platforms, the risks that come with a public digital presence, and real-world examples of when things go wrong.
Feeling a strong connection online? Be cautious! Learn how to spot the signs of catfishing and protect yourself, and those in your care, from online predators. Our online safety shareable provides essential information on identifying red flags, verifying online profiles, and taking action if you suspect a catfish.
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