This course helps education professionals understand online risks to children, including misinformation, deepfakes and AI harms. It covers communication, legal duties and practical guidance so staff can support students to stay safe online.
Are you responsible for a team? See our team pricing plansOnline Safety in Education Settings is an informative, educational resource for teaching professionals that raises awareness of the risks that digital exposure poses to children and young people.
Online safety should form a fundamental part of schools' and colleges' safeguarding and child protection measures. With this updated CPD for teachers, education professionals can gain the necessary knowledge and skills to support children in their care, so they are better informed about online risks, including misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, and AI-generated harms and how to safeguard against them.
This professional development course provides information about the importance of effective communication with students, colleagues and parents or carers. This creates positive working relationships that promote online safety both in school and at home.
In addition, education professionals will be introduced to the legal requirements and guidelines for maintaining online safety when it comes to children and young people, including the Online Safety Act 2023 and the latest statutory guidance from the Department for Education (DfE).
Whether you already have some awareness of online safety risks or have no previous learning on the topic, this updated CPD course will provide you with all the tools you need to guide your students to stay safe online in our rapidly evolving digital landscape.
This CPD course aims to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of online safety and the role of promoting it across all educational settings.
A core aim of this online safety CPD course is to ensure that educators obtain an up-to-date knowledge of the statutory requirements that they must meet including the Online Safety Act 2023 and Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025 along with an ability to recognise online threats to children and know how to respond to them.
This course reflects the most significant shifts in online safeguarding: the explicit inclusion of misinformation and disinformation as safeguarding harms, the recognition of artificial intelligence and deepfakes as emerging risks, and the enhanced expectations around filtering, monitoring and digital literacy.
Short Aims: This CPD course builds educators’ understanding of online safety and statutory duties (Online Safety Act 2023, KCSIE 2025), enabling them to recognise and respond to online threats, including misinformation, disinformation, AI, deepfakes, and issues around filtering and digital literacy.
This online safety CPD course develops practical strategies for promoting responsible online behaviour among educators, school staff, peers, and classmates.
The safeguarding course will equip you with the knowledge and insight that you need to educate and guide those around you.
Core objectives include:
At the end of this CPD course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently promote online safety across their environment and understand how to respond to contemporary online harms.
Short: This CPD course builds practical strategies to promote responsible online behaviour, meet legal duties (Online Safety Act 2023, KCSIE 2025), address misinformation, disinformation, AI and deepfakes, strengthen filtering/monitoring, and support whole‑school online safety and student wellbeing.
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1st July 2025