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Inclusion Toolboxes: Supporting inclusive education

The Inclusion Toolboxes accompany existing CEOP Education resources and provide material to help make learning more accessible and inclusive. Use this guidance to learn more about how the Inclusion Toolboxes can support children and young people with mild to moderate special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), or any learner who may benefit from differentiation.

Online harm groups: what professionals need to know

Online harm groups are networks of individuals that use online spaces to manipulate, coerce and exploit children and young people. Use this guidance to develop your understanding of the threat, support safeguarding responses and strengthen preventative work with young people and their families.

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A Child's Legal Rights

Under UK law, children are afforded rights that must be upheld by their families and professionals with whom they have contact. NSPCC detail a child's legal rights relating to issues from housing to the legal working age.

STATUTORY GUIDANCE

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026

The Department for Education has published statutory safeguarding guidance for September 2026. Find out more about the updated guidance.

Why CSA education isn't suitable for assemblies

Read our overview on why CSA education isn't suitable for assemblies and explore best practice for delivering lessons to protect children from online sexual abuse.

AI-generated child sexual abuse material: Guidance for parents and carers

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, one emerging concern is the misuse of AI to create, manipulate or share child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In response we’ve developed a new resource for parents and carers, in collaboration with the Internet Watch Foundation which helps families to understand how AI can be misused and what to do if an incident occurs.

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New guidance: AI image manipulation and abuse

New guidance has been published for protecting online images on public platforms from AI manipulation and abuse, developed by the members of the UK Online Harms Early Warning Working Group.

IWF Annual Report 2025

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Annual Data & Insights Report 2025 provides the latest findings in the global online child sexual abuse landscape.

Guidance

Financially Motivated Sexual Extortion: guidance for further education professionals

Download guidance for further education professionals on Financially Motivated Sexual Extortion, from NCA's CEOP Education in partnership with UK Safer Internet Centre.

STATUTORY GUIDANCE

Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) curriculum updates

The Department for Education has released updates to the statutory guidance for Relationships, Sex and Health Education for introduction in September 2026. Find out more about the updated guidance.

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Understanding and responding to AI-generated child sexual abuse material

Download NCA CEOP Education's guidance for professionals, in collaboration with the Internet Watch Foundation on child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence.

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Supporting young people to take down nudes shared online

Find out how to support the young people you work with when they have had nude images shared online, including new guidance for professionals on Report Remove.

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Why CSA education isn't suitable for assemblies

We all have a duty to safeguard children, so delivering important messaging in assemblies may seem like a good way to reach all the children in your setting. However, not all education is suitable or safe to deliver in this way, particularly education to protect children from online sexual abuse. Find out more...