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STATUTORY GUIDANCE

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020

The Department for Education has published statutory safeguarding guidance for September 2020. Find out more about the updated guidance.

POLICY

Online safety action plan for children and young people in Wales 2019

Read Welsh Government's 2019 online safety action plan which outlines its future plans and commitments to enhance online safety for children and young people. It also summarises the activities Welsh Government has undertaken over the past year.

NON-STATUTORY GUIDANCE

Digital Resilience Framework

Understand how to embed digital resilience thinking into your education and services with UKCIS’s Digital Resilience Framework.

POLICY

Teaching online safety in schools

Understand how your school can make sure pupils understand how to stay safe and behave online with the Department for Education's new online safety guidance. This has been introduced to support schools as a part of the existing curriculum requirements and new requirements set out in compulsory Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education.

POLICY

Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit

Understand your role in tackling child exploitation by reading the Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit from the Home Office. The toolkit aims to help safeguarding partners know how their knowledge, expertise and information sharing could contribute to the protection of victims, evidence for further action, arrest and potential prosecution of offenders.

RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS

IWF Annual Report 2018

Read the Internet Watch Foundation's 2018 annual report which provides the latest data and trends on what’s happening globally to tackle child sexual abuse images and videos online.

NON-STATUTORY GUIDANCE

Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety considerations

Ensure online safeguarding practice in your early years setting is in line with statutory requirements and suggested best practice with guidance from the UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS). Separate documents are available for early years managers and practitioners.

CURRICULUM

Using external visitors to support online safety

Make informed decisions regarding the engagement of external visitors to deliver online safety education in your setting with non-statutory advice from the UK Council for Internet Safety. It includes a checklist of key questions that will help you to ensure the maximum impact of online safety sessions.

Research

Digital Romance

Understand how young people are using digital technologies in their romantic relationships by reading a summary of the ‘Digital Romance’ research project, led by Brook and CEOP. It looks at how young people use tech as they flirt, start relationships, negotiate pressure, and break up. You can also share the findings with others using a downloadable presentation.

Criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: county lines

This guidance is produced by the Home Office for frontline professionals. This policy guidance gives informtion and advice on dealing with county lines and is part of the government’s approach to ending gang violence and exploitation.

NSPCC

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.

NSPCC

Child Sexual Abuse: Legislation, Policy and Guidance

Each nation has a legislative framework to protect children from adults who may pose a risk of sexual harm and to deal with adults who have sexually offended against children. The NSPCC have provided a summary of the government policy and guidance for responding to child sexual abuse in each nation.

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