The DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) guidance is statutory: schools and other settings must observe the guidance.
Online Safety Training is a key part of KCSiE:
- Staff training (page 21, point 81): Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that all staff undergo safeguarding and child protection training (including online safety) at induction. The training should be regularly updated. Induction and training should be in line with advice from the local three safeguarding partners (local authorities, chief officers of police, and clinical commissioning groups).
- Opportunities to Teach Safeguarding (page 22, point 85): Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that children are taught about safeguarding, including online safety. Schools should consider this as part of providing a broad and balanced curriculum.
- Annex C: Online safety (Page 93): Governors and proprietors should ensure that, as part of the requirement for staff to undergo regularly updated safeguarding training (paragraph 81) and the requirement to ensure children are taught about safeguarding, including online safety (paragraph 85), that online safety training for staff is integrated, aligned and considered as part of the overarching safeguarding approach.