Online safety policies and procedures

These strategy and guidance documents aim to support the development and review of online safety policies and procedures. General online safety information and advice is available as well as support with specific issues.

Enhancing digital resilience in education: an action plan to protect children and young people online

What we have done to equip our children and young people with excellent knowledge, skills and strategies in our 3 key focus areas for digital resilience (online safety, cyber resilience and data protection).

Online safety: 5 key questions for governing bodies to help challenge their schools and colleges to effectively safeguard their learners

Guidance on what governors should look for when reviewing the school or college’s online safety policies and procedures and support available.

Cyber security in schools: questions for governing bodies and management committees

Guidance for governing bodies and management committees to help improve a school's understanding of its cyber security risks.

Cyber response plan for schools

Information on how to prepare and respond to cyber incidents.

Online sexual harassment: understand, prevent and respond: 3 key questions for governing bodies

Guide to online sexual harassment and key questions governors should ask to support the school.

Generative AI: keeping learners safe online

Guidance on safeguarding concerns around generative AI and how to include them as part of safeguarding practice and policy.

Practices and principles for schools' use of social media

Guidance to support schools and education settings in Wales to plan their approach to using social media in a safe, professional and positive way as part of school communications.

Delivering online learning: safeguarding principles and practice

Key considerations for safe practice when live-streaming, if required, to support remote learning.

Sharing nudes and semi-nudes: responding to incidents and safeguarding children and young people

Guidance aimed at the designated safeguarding person (DSP), headteachers and senior leadership teams on how to respond to an incident of sharing nudes or semi-nudes.

Advice for schools on preparing for responding to viral online harmful challenges and hoaxes

Guidance on understanding and responding carefully to online viral challenges and hoaxes to ensure learners are kept safe online.

Challenging victim blaming language and behaviours when dealing with the online experiences of children and young people

Guidance aimed at all school staff to help with understanding, recognising and responding to victim blaming language and behaviour within their settings.

Responding to online reputational issues and harassment directed at schools and school staff

Guidance on how to respond to online reputational issues including negative discourse about the school or school staff online.

Teacher's guide to managing your professional online reputation

Practical steps education practitioners and support staff can take to manage their online reputation.

Web scraping

Information about web scraping and considerations for posting and sharing images on social media and school websites.

Online safety toolkit for early years practitioners

Guidance and exemplar policies and templates that can be amended to meet the needs of the provision.

Early Years practitioners: using cyber security to protect your settings

Information on how to protect sensitive information about your setting and the children in your care.

Keeping learners safe

Statutory safeguarding in education guidance on GOV.WALES that provides information for local authorities and governing bodies on their duties.

It also includes advice on arrangements that should be in place to safeguard children. Section 7 specifically relates to keeping learners safe and secure online.

Rights, Respect, Equality

Statutory guidance on GOV.WALES for both governing bodies of maintained schools and local authorities to help address and prevent bullying in education settings in Wales.

All Wales practice guides: Wales Safeguarding Procedures website

Procedures to guide safeguarding practice for use in conjunction with the Wales Safeguarding Procedures.