Every organisation that works with children needs to have an online safety policy statement, which sets out your commitment to keeping children and young people (as well as staff and volunteers) safe online. You should also set out your expectations about how children and young people should use the internet safely within your organisation.
We've created an example online safety policy statement and an example online safety agreement, which you should tailor according to the context of your organisation.
These should form part of your overall child protection and safeguarding measures and be used alongside a set of more detailed procedures and an overarching code of conduct for keeping children safe online.
> Find more information about how to prevent online abuse and harm
> Find out more about online safety
> Take our online training course on keeping children safe online
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> Look at our other information and resources on safeguarding
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Download the templates
Download the example online safety policy statement (PDF)
Download the example online safety agreement (PDF)
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