Online safety training

You'll explore:

• the 4Cs framework of online risk: content, contact, conduct and commerce
• online contact risks, including grooming, exploitation and sexual extortion (sextortion)
• conduct-related harms such as cyberbullying, online harassment and the sharing of nudes and semi-nudes
• commercial risks, including scams, fraud, persuasive design features and online spending.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

• recognise indicators that a child may be experiencing harm online
• understand the potential impact of online harms on children's wellbeing, development and relationships
• support children to navigate online spaces more safely and critically
• work effectively with parents, carers and safeguarding partners
• understand your role in creating and maintaining a safe and positive online safety culture.

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.

At the NSPCC, we work to keep children and young people safe from abuse and neglect every day.

As experts in safeguarding and child protection, we understand the issues organisations and people working with children can face. That’s why professionals trust us to provide the support, training and resources they need to help protect the children and young people they work with.

Our highly-rated training courses are developed by experts. We work with a number of organisations, experienced consultants and subject matter experts in a range of sectors to develop courses that are clear, easy-to-use, up-to-date and in line with the latest statutory guidance, and tailored to your needs.

And as a charity, income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children.

This elearning course is CPD certified by the CPD Certification Service. This means you can be confident that the training meets the highest standards.

Continuing professional development, or CPD for short, helps professionals keep their skills and knowledge up to date. It demonstrates your commitment to safeguarding children and upholding the standards of your profession.

Some professional associations have mandatory CPD or safeguarding training requirements for their members, but all professionals will benefit from investing time in their CPD. And taking an online CPD course means you can train at your own pace, wherever suits you.

Our online courses will work in most browsers, though we recommend that you use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Safari (not Firefox). You will need to make sure your browser is up to date for the course to run.

This course can be taken on PCs and Macs, as well as iPads or other tablet devices. Please note, we are unable to provide full technical support for tablet users. We do not support other mobile devices.

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Call us on 0116 234 7246 or email learning@nspcc.org.uk if you have any questions.