Online safety resources
From training courses and template policies, to guides and advice for parents, children and families, our resources will help you improve your practice and keep children safe online.
Training courses
Get the skills and confidence you need to help keep children safe online with our elearning courses. Packed with interactive activities and examples, and developed with experts, our CPD-certified courses are regularly updated to reflect current legislation, guidance and best practice.
Expert insights
This series of expert insight films helps those working and volunteering with children and young people to explore what online safety means, recognise the risks children face and understand how to support children’s safety online.
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Resources for parents and carers
Parents and carers play a vital role in helping children and young people understand how to stay safe online. But online safety can also be a daunting issue, so it's important that you can support parents and carers in keeping their children safe online.
Guides and advice
The NSPCC website has lots of information to help parents and carers feel informed, confident and happy about helping children stay safe online. You'll find advice for parents and carers about online safety including information about social media, online gaming, parental controls, sharing nudes, livestreaming, harmful content and online reporting.
Parents can also sign up to our online safety newsletter to get news and advice.
How you can support parents to keep children safe online
As well as sharing our guides, you can help parents and carers have conversations about how to stay safe online by:
- including resources and news in your newsletters, handouts, by email and on social media
- sharing your online safety policies and procedures
- holding online safety sessions for parents and carers
- showing parents the online safety resources you use with children and young people.
Supporting children and young people
If a child or young person is worried about something that they've seen or experienced online, support is available.
Childline: online, on the phone, anytime
If a child or young person needs confidential help and advice, direct them to Childline. Calls to 0800 1111 are free and children can also contact Childline online or read about online safety on the Childline website.
You can also download Childline posters to share digitally or print and pin up around your building.
Report Remove: supporting young people to take down nudes shared online
Report Remove is a tool for under 18s to report nude or sexual images of themselves that have been shared online, to see if they can be removed from the internet. Developed by the NSPCC and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), professionals can support young people to use Report Remove. Remember, you should always follow your organisation's safeguarding policies and procedures when responding to incidents.
Find out more about Report Remove
Let children know you're listening
Watch our animation about responding to disclosures of abuse.
See more resources to let children know you're listening
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Resources for your organisation
Our practical resources and guidance will help you protect the children and young people you work with.
For schools and colleges
Our resources will help you take a whole school approach to online safety, so you can make sure all staff, governors, volunteers and parents and carers know how they can help keep children safe online.
Online safety reading list
Learn more about online safety with our selection of publications related to e-safety topics, including cyberbullying, using social media and online mental health and wellbeing.
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