Online safety policies and protection
Keeping children and young people safe online cannot be done in isolation. It is recommended that a code of conduct is developed. This outlines appropriate practices and standards of behaviour when engaging with young people. The development of a child protection policy also helps outline the standards for your school and details how to recognise and respond to threats or risks to children.
Educational programmes
Safeguarding Children have a range of free and low-cost courses that help upskill educators on how to keep children and young people safe online.
- Code of Conduct webinar
- Safeguarding Children courses
- Safeguarding and Child Protection for Primary and Intermediate Schools
- Safeguarding and Child Protection for Secondary Schools
Teacher guides
Safeguarding Children have developed a code of conduct resource guide to ensure people in positions of trust know what is acceptable and unacceptable and how organisations deal with those situations.
Netsafe have developed resources to help you explore young people’s knowledge about the online environment and set expectations and culture around the use of digital technologies and how these are to be used in school.