Online Safety: Keeping Children Safe Online
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Understand the 4 Cs of online risk, spot online grooming, respond to nudes, sextortion and AI-generated images, and report concerns.
- Assign to
- Staff and volunteers working with children
- Duration
- 28 minutes
- Evidence
- 13-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Describe the 4 Cs of online risk, including AI.
- Spot the stages of online grooming.
- Respond to nudes, sextortion and AI images without making things worse.
- Pass concerns on quickly and help get images removed.
The course
- 01The 4 Cs
- 02Online grooming
- 03Images and sextortion
- 04In the moment
- 05Prevention
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Read Leo’s chat”, learners spot the red flags in a realistic document and see the effect of each choice. In “Mia at the youth club”, a face-to-face conversation, learners practise what to say and do when the other person pushes back. The wrong options are things a well-meaning person might genuinely say, and the feedback explains why each one is tempting. Short animations show “How online grooming works” and “Why speed matters”.
How you know they finished
The 13-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Education Act 2002
- Online Safety Act 2023
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 13-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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