Online Safety, Sextortion, AI & Digital Safeguarding for Children and Young People
An advanced course for children's services staff covering online risk, sextortion, AI-generated image abuse, and the correct professional response to protect children and young people in a fast-changing digital landscape.
2 hours
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Advanced Level
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Course Description
An advanced course for children's services staff covering online risk, sextortion, AI-generated image abuse, and the correct professional response to protect children and young people in a fast-changing digital landscape.
Aligned with Aligned with the Online Safety Act's duties on platforms, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, and Data Protection Act principles around children's personal data. and legislation including Children Act 1989 and Online Safety Act 2023, this course helps learners build confidence, strengthen judgement, and apply safer day-to-day practice.
Key Topics Include:
Explain why digital risk is now a core part of everyday safeguarding practice, not a specialist IT concern.
Describe how sextortion and AI-generated image abuse typically escalate, and recognise the behavioural and financial indicators that usually surface first.
Apply the correct, non-judgemental first response to a disclosure, including what must never be asked of a young person.
Connect the Online Safety Act, Working Together to Safeguard Children, and data protection law to confident, defensible professional practice.
A 15-year-old resident becomes withdrawn and anxious after receiving a threatening message following an online image request.
A young person is targeted with an AI-generated fake image despite never having shared a genuine photograph.
A staff member has to decide, in the moment, whether to ask to see a threatening message a young person has received.
A designated safeguarding lead has to coordinate a same-day response involving CEOP, the police, and a distressed young person.
Important Notice
This awareness course is not a substitute for role-specific training or competency assessment. Always follow your organisation's policies and procedures.
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