Anyone who works with children and young people needs to know what to do if a child comes to them about something concerning they have seen online. So whether you’re a teacher, social worker, volunteer or a youth worker, our elearning course will help you to feel confident in keeping children safer online.
E-safety training to help you keep children and young people safe online
Gain the skills and confidence you need to help keep children safe online and respond appropriately to any concerns.
Our online safety training, developed in association with NCA-CEOP Education, the child protection unit of the National Crime Agency, will help you learn about topics including new and emerging online harms, sex and relationships online and online bullying.
What will I learn?
Watch film interviews with experts and complete the interactive quizzes and reflective tasks to help you develop your understanding about:
- how children use the internet and technology
- new and emerging online harms
- sex and relationships online
- keeping children safe from sexual abuse online
- the risks children may encounter online
- harmful content online
- online radicalisation and extremism
- sharing personal content and nudes
- bullying online
- supporting parents and carers.
By the end of the course you will:
- understand how the online world can impact children and young people positively and negatively
- identify the ways children and young people communicate and interact online
- identify the key risks and harm children and young people can be exposed to online
- know how to access advice and support to be able to better protect children and support parents and carers to help keep children safer online.
Benefits of the course
- CPD certified.
- Regularly updated to reflect changes in legislation, guidance and best practice advice (last updated February 2024).
- Complete at your own pace and in your own time.
- Train anytime, anywhere and take the course as many times as you like within one year.
- Personalised downloadable certificate of achievement.
- If you purchase licences on behalf of your team, you can download a report to show who has completed the course.
- Once you’ve taken the course, it doesn’t stop there. We have a range of further information, training and downloadable resources to help you protect the children you work with.
- Income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children.