Looking for a partner to help support you to deliver the KCSIE (Keeping Children Safe In Education) guidance?
We can help you strengthen your digital safeguarding in line with KCSIE 2025
Online safety in schools is evolving fast — and it now goes far beyond cyberbullying, gaming risks and device filtering.
The latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE 2025) makes it clear that schools must now actively teach pupils about misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, AI-generated content, and emerging online harms — and be able to evidence that this is happening.
At Knetic Education, we offer whole-school and trust-wide online safety training that equips staff, pupils, governors and parents with the knowledge, skills and confidence to navigate this new landscape.
Because we are 360Safe assessors, CEOP ambassadors, and long-standing online safety specialists, we don’t just deliver training — we help schools build a sustainable digital safeguarding culture. Our aim is simple — to help schools create confident, responsible digital citizens and a whole-school culture of online and digital safety.
We Take a Human-Centred Approach to digital safety
While filtering, monitoring and technology-based solutions are vital, it is the human component that makes the most difference.
Our sessions focus on behaviour, culture and relationships — helping schools build an environment where everyone feels responsible for keeping themselves and others safe online.
Contact us today to book an online safety audit, staff CPD session, or pupil workshop — and let’s work together to build a safer, more digitally resilient school community.
Our Online Safety and Digital Safety Services
We offer a complete package of support for children, young people and the adults who work with them — from whole-staff CEOP-accredited training to interactive workshops for pupils and awareness sessions for parents and carers.
KS2 – How You Behave Shapes Everyone’s Online Experience
In our popular KS2 assemblies and workshops, we ask the questions:
“Who are you in the online world?”
“How does that version of you behave?”
“How can you take responsibility for what happens online?”
Our KS2 assemblies and workshops help pupils understand that their behaviour online shapes everyone’s experience.
We believed in encouraging learners to take responsibility for their actions, recognise unsafe behaviours in others, and make positive choices online. Many schools follow our KS2 assemblies with in-class workshops for Years 5 and 6, where students explore online behaviour more deeply and develop empathy, self-awareness and confidence.
The session concludes with a call to action: pupils sign up to the updated Cyber Safe Agreement and spread the word to friends and family.
KS3 & KS4: Becoming Critical, Confident Digital Citizens
Building on our KS2 work, our secondary school sessions help young people move beyond simple “online safety rules” and become informed, critical digital citizens.
The focus shifts from being protected to taking responsibility, understanding how online systems work, and recognising how digital behaviour shapes real-life opportunities.
Through open discussion, case studies and real-world examples, we explore:
- How websites, apps and social media platforms collect and monetise personal data
- How algorithms shape what you see online and influence what you think, buy and believe
- How misinformation, disinformation and deepfakes are used to persuade, divide or manipulate — now a required topic in KCSIE 2025
- How online grooming, radicalisation and exploitation are disguised through humour, memes and shared content
- Recognising the techniques behind “dopamine design,” streaks, infinite scroll, loot boxes and other tools that fuel digital addiction
- How to stay in control of your time, attention and emotional wellbeing when everything is designed to keep you online
- Making informed choices about what to share — and how online behaviour now affects careers, apprenticeships, university offers and digital reputation
The emphasis is not on blame or fear, but on helping students become:
- Clued up about how platforms work
- Confident in making independent choices
- In control of their devices, not controlled by them
- Digitally resilient, critically minded and future-ready
Every session is age-appropriate, discussion-led and rooted in real online culture — not outdated examples pupils can’t relate to.
KS5: Digital Footprint and Preparing for Adult Life
Our KS5 assembly and workshop programme supports students as they transition into adult life, employment, apprenticeships and further or higher education.
At this stage, online safety is no longer just about avoiding risk — it is about actively shaping a positive digital identity that reflects who they want to become.
We help students understand:
- How employers, universities and apprenticeship providers now routinely check online profiles
- How old posts, usernames, images, private stories or group chats can resurface years later
- What recruitment software, “digital screening” and AI background tools look for
- How to clean and curate their online presence before applications begin
- How to turn social media from a liability into an asset
- How to use platforms like LinkedIn to build a professional presence early
- How to use AI tools responsibly when applying for jobs or writing personal statements
- Why digital reputation matters for careers in teaching, police, health, childcare, law, social care, media or politics
The session includes practical guidance on:
- Searching and auditing your own digital footprint
- Removing or requesting takedown of unwanted content
- Rewriting profiles and bios for positive impact
- Adjusting privacy settings and closing redundant accounts
- Creating a “Google-ready” version of yourself
- Using LinkedIn, portfolios and digital CV tools to stand out
- Professional communication online — email tone, video call etiquette, and online networking
Optional Follow-Up Workshop
Schools may also book an extended version which includes:
- Live LinkedIn profile setup session
- Building a simple online portfolio or “one-page personal site”
- Using AI safely to assist with CV writing, personal statements or interview prep
- Peer review and digital branding activities
- “What employers really see online” case studies
Why KS5 Students Find This Useful
This session is particularly relevant for:
- UCAS applicants
- Students applying for degree apprenticeships
- Students in vocational pathways (engineering, health, digital, law etc.)
- Students preparing for interviews or work placements
- Learners entering professions with strict safeguarding requirements
It supports Careers, PSHE, Digital Citizenship, Personal Development and Gatsby Benchmarks 3, 4 and 5.
Online Safety Talks For Parents
Parents play a vital role in supporting their children to stay safe online — but many underestimate the challenges their children face.
Our parent sessions are designed to raise awareness, encourage open dialogue and provide practical, accessible advice. We cover:
- Recognising and reporting cyberbullying
- Understanding what children may encounter in age-inappropriate games
- Maintaining positive communication around online use
- Knowing which apps and sites children use — and the associated risks
- Using parental controls to protect children effectively
These sessions are perfect for schools applying for 360Safe accreditation, as they demonstrate a clear commitment to community engagement and safeguarding.
Policy Support and Strategic Advice
We also provide consultancy and policy guidance to help schools meet the latest statutory expectations around online safety.
Our services include:
- Reviewing and developing Online Safety and Digital Safety Policies
- Advising on AI-related risks and AI safety policies
- Supporting compliance with KCSIE 2025 and DfE filtering and monitoring standards (2023)
- Helping schools prepare for Ofsted inspection and governor safeguarding reviews
360Safe Self-Review Support
As accredited 360Safe assessors, we can support schools and trusts that want to use the 360Safe Online Safety Self-Review Tool to evaluate and strengthen their provision. We guide you through the process, helping you understand each element of the framework and how it aligns with KCSIE 2025 and DfE filtering and monitoring standards. Whether you’re completing your first self-review or preparing for external assessment, we provide expert advice, evidence-gathering guidance and action-planning support to help you progress confidently toward recognised online safety accreditation.
Digital/Online Safety CPD
Misinformation and Disinformation Training
The 2025 update to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) makes it clear that schools must now teach pupils how to recognise and respond to misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes and AI-generated content. This is no longer an optional “digital literacy extra” — it is a statutory safeguarding requirement.
We deliver practical, age-appropriate training for pupils, staff and parents to help them:
- Understand how false or manipulated information spreads online
- Recognise deepfakes, edited images and AI-generated content
- Identify influence tactics, bias and hidden agendas
- Analyse sources and question credibility before sharing
- Build critical thinking habits for safe, responsible digital use
- Link online behaviour to citizenship, democracy and social responsibility
This training can be delivered as:
- Staff CPD with ready-to-use classroom resources
- KS2, KS3 or KS4 pupil workshops
- Leadership briefing on how to evidence compliance
- Parent session focused on supporting critical thinking at home
Because misinformation is now both a curriculum issue and a safeguarding issue, we help schools embed it in both.
Statutory Online Safety Training for Staff
Under Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE 2025), all school staff must receive regular online safety training so they can recognise, respond to and prevent digital safeguarding risks. This applies to teachers, support staff, lunchtime supervisors, governors and anyone working directly with pupils.
We provide statutory-compliant staff training that covers:
- The latest online risks named in KCSIE 2025, including AI, misinformation and image-based abuse
- How online safety links to safeguarding, Prevent and child-on-child abuse
- Digital behaviours by age phase and how pupils experience risk
- Signs, disclosures and staff reporting responsibilities
- Responding to online incidents safely and in line with policy
- Staff role in modelling safe and responsible online behaviour
- Emerging harms such as livestreaming exploitation, anonymous platforms and deepfake blackmail
- How to talk to pupils with confidence, not fear or judgement
Training can be delivered as:
- Whole-staff INSET
- DSL/SLT safeguarding briefing
- Trust-wide remote delivery for MATs
- Refresher sessions for mid-year joiners and new staff
- CEOP-accredited professional development session
All sessions include clear action points, evidence for safeguarding logs and follow-up materials for internal dissemination.
Schools and trusts also receive a certificate of training completion for Ofsted and governor evidence.
Support with ProjectEVOLVE Implementation
Many schools already have access to ProjectEVOLVE, but are unsure how to embed it effectively across year groups, subjects and staff teams. We can support schools and trusts to make meaningful use of ProjectEVOLVE by mapping its strands to curriculum plans, PSHE and Computing progression, inspection evidence, and the expectations of KCSIE 2025.
Our support includes:
- Staff training on how to use the ProjectEVOLVE toolkit with confidence
- Guidance on building year-on-year progression rather than isolated lessons
- Help selecting the most relevant knowledge maps and resources for your school
- Integration into existing PSHE, RSE, digital literacy and computing schemes
- Support for MATs to roll out a trust-wide framework with shared standards
- Advice on using the platform for evidence gathering and impact tracking
Whether you’ve just downloaded the resource or want to strengthen your existing approach, we can help you move from “We have ProjectEVOLVE” to “We are using it strategically, consistently and well.”