Educate and protect children online
The Education from National Crime Agency can help support you to deliver education and protect children and young people from online sexual abuse.
Find training courses, guidance and library of resources on the CEOP Education website.
You can also read:
Online safety resources from the Samaritans
Guidance on staying safe online, co-designed by young people with lived experience of self-harm and suicidal feelings and experience of supporting others at risk.
Find useful resources - Samaritans
Online safety self-review tool for schools
360 safe Scotland is intended to help schools review their online safety policy and practice. The review takes you through each aspect of online safety, helping you to collaborate, report, and progress.
Start a review - 360 Safe Scotland
Safety and security online
Safe, Secure, Online is a charity dedicated to empowering the safe and secure use of technology through innovative services, tools, content and policy, nationally and globally.
Find out more on the SWGfL website.
The Online Safety Act 2023 (the Act)
The Online Safety Act 2023 (the Act) is a new set of laws that protects children and adults online. It puts a range of new duties on social media companies and search services, making them more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms. The Act will give providers new duties to implement systems and processes to reduce risks their services are used for illegal activity, and to take down illegal content when it does appear.
Find out more by reading the Online Safety Act: explainer - GOV.UK.