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POLICY

Digital Competence Framework: draft Curriculum for Wales 2022 version

Read the revised Digital Competence Framework, updated to reflect the draft Curriculum for Wales.

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Let children know you're listening: resources

Feel more confident when responding to a disclosure with the NSPCC's tips on how to make sure children feel listened to when disclosing abuse. The NSPCC's resources include an animation and poster in English and Welsh language.

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Relationships Education and RSE: parental engagement guides

Find out how you can engage parents with the new statutory Relationships Education and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum with the PSHE Association's guides for primary and secondary schools.

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POLICY

Teaching online safety in schools

Understand how your school can make sure pupils understand how to stay safe and behave online with the Department for Education's new online safety guidance. This has been introduced to support schools as a part of the existing curriculum requirements and new requirements set out in compulsory Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education.

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RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS

How safe are our children? 2019

Read the NSPCC's collection of statistics on online child abuse. Data sources include crime statistics, survey responses to questions on online sexual abuse and inappropriate content, and IWF and industry reports.

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RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS

Online Safety Policy and Practice in UK Schools

Find out about online safety policy and practices of UK maintained schools with RM Education and NSPCC's research report. It summarises the findings of a survey of school leaders, designated safeguarding leads and network managers.

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RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS

Left to their own devices

Read insights from Barnados into the effects of social media on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Statistics are taken from reports from 80 Barnardos practitioners.

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POLICY

Age-appropriate design code of practice

Read the Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO’s) draft code of practice which sets the standards expected of those responsible for designing, developing or providing online services likely to be accessed by children. The code is designed to protect children’s privacy and reduce exposure to harmful online content.

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POLICY

Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit

Understand your role in tackling child exploitation by reading the Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit from the Home Office. The toolkit aims to help safeguarding partners know how their knowledge, expertise and information sharing could contribute to the protection of victims, evidence for further action, arrest and potential prosecution of offenders.

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RESOURCES

Step Up, Speak Up: resources on online sexual harassment

Support young people develop the skills and knowledge to challenge unacceptable online behaviour and report online sexual harassment with Childnet’s ‘Step Up Speak Up’ toolkit. The toolkit includes scenario-based lesson plans and films.

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POLICY

Relationships (and sex) education and health education: statutory guidance

Read about schools’ statutory obligations to provide relationships (and sex) education and health education from September 2020.

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RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS

IWF Annual Report 2018

Read the Internet Watch Foundation's 2018 annual report which provides the latest data and trends on what’s happening globally to tackle child sexual abuse images and videos online.

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Why CSA education isn't suitable for assemblies

We all have a duty to safeguard children, so delivering important messaging in assemblies may seem like a good way to reach all the children in your setting. However, not all education is suitable or safe to deliver in this way, particularly education to protect children from online sexual abuse. Find out more...