Keeping Children Safe Online Training

Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Keeping Children Safe Online Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Keeping Children Safe Online Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Online Safety Act is a piece of UK legislation designed to help keep children and young people safe online. It places a duty of care on providers of online technology, services, and platforms – like social media sites, search engines, and mobile apps – to identify, reduce, and manage the risks posed to their users by harmful content and activities.

This duty of care means that online technology and service providers are legally responsible for protecting children and young people from potentially harmful online content, regardless of whether that content is illegal or just inappropriate. This includes content involving pornography, terrorism, hate crimes, bullying, fraud, serious violence, suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders, among other things.

All reasonable steps must be taken to prevent illegal or harmful content from reaching these sites and apps and anything that is shared must be removed quickly.

Online technology and service providers must also:

• Set appropriate age limits on the use of their services and effectively check the age of users
• Publish risk assessments that are clear about the dangers posed to children using their services, and give children and adults easy ways to report any problems
• Give adults more power to choose what they do or don’t see online by providing more effective filters – remember, we’re vulnerable too

If an organisation fails in its duty, they can be fined up to £18 million or 10% of their global annual turnover – whichever is larger. Senior managers, directors, and CEOs also face fines and prison sentences for not doing enough to protect children or failing to provide relevant information to Ofcom, who are responsible for enforcing the Online Safety Act.

The act also makes it much easier for the police and prosecutors to charge and convict people who share – or threaten to share – nude or sexual images of people without their consent – including fake images created using AI or other digital technology.

As a parent, guardian, educator, or carer, you have responsibilities too, and you’re in the best position to take action and protect the children in your care. So keep up the good work and keep doing everything you can to protect them from harm, and report anything that concerns you – always trust your gut.