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Online safety: the essentials
Use this 25-minute course to make sure your staff know the main risks for pupils online and how to keep them safe. It will help you meet your responsibility to provide online safety training, under KCSIE.
Who it's for
All staff, volunteers and contractors
Last reviewed on 8 August 2025See updates
This course is fully up to date with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025.
If you completed this course before 8 August 2025, you'll need to select 'retake course' (see above) to take the course again with the new changes.
In around 25 minutes this course covers:
- The main risks to children online
- Avoiding victim blaming language and behaviour
- The signs to look and listen out for
- How to act if you suspect a child is being harmed online
Use it to:
- Equip all your staff and volunteers to help keep children safe online
- Meet your responsibility under Keeping Children Safe in Education to train your staff in online safety
Course updates
8 August 2025
We updated this course in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025
29 July 2024
We updated this course in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024 and the DfE's guidance on sharing nudes and semi-nudes: advice for education settings working with children and young people.
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