Help, advice and resources for teachers and professionals
Guidance on a range of online safety topics for educators and schools
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Help & advice
Gaming
Our information and guidance around gaming content and in-game chat features
Online grooming
Not everyone online is who they say they are, and this can be a difficult concept for some children to understand
Reliability online
There is a large amount of content available online, so it can be challenging sifting through it and working out what is accurate and useful
Digital wellbeing
Young people are growing up in a world where technology has always been present for them, which can have a positive and negative impact on their lives
Online Bullying
How to identify online bullying and key advice on how to deal with it
Online Sexual Harassment
Whilst online sexual harassment can happen between adults and children, this advice focuses on peer-to-peer harassment between young people
Resources
Learning resources and other resources for professionals, including toolkits, videos, lesson plans, leaflets and much more!
Embedding online safety
Ways to include online safety messages across the primary and secondary school curriculums.
Digiduck Stories
The Digiduck® collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3–7 about online safety. The collection includes a ebooks, PDFs, a poster and an interactive app.
Just a joke?
Lesson plans, quick activities, a quiz and teaching guide designed to explore problematic online sexual behaviour with 9-12 year olds.
Moving on up!
Helping young people with the online aspects of moving to secondary school
Talk it over
Research-led resource to start empathetic, honest, and evidence-based conversations on online hate and how to tackle it.
STAR SEND Toolkit
An online safety teaching toolkit for educators to deliver with young people in KS3 and KS4
Online Safety Calendar
Our annual ‘Online Safety Calendar’ offers you engaging ways of incorporating online safety advice into the curriculum.