The OSA online safety CPD training for school staff is an accredited course ensuring those working with children have an up to date knowledge of the statutory requirements they must meet, the threats to children online, how to reduce these risks, and guidance on ensuring staff use of digital technology is safe and responsible. Thank Read more about Accredited CPD – school package[…]

Given the recent DfE guidance on online safety teaching, Safer Internet Day will this year be more important than ever. Taking place on Tuesday, 20th February 2020, make the even as effective as possible with resources from the Online Safety Alliance. Many of these popular, high-quality resources can be accessed and downloaded for free. Resources Read more about Free resources for Safer Internet Day 2020[…]

It has been an exciting summer of developments ahead of the new school year. We have a wide range of new features and content that we are delighted to be sharing with you. A few highlights are detailed below. Enhanced interactivity The majority of content in the new OSA Certificates has been created as interactive Read more about OSA Certificate – updates for 2019-2020[…]

This week has seen an incident of anti-social behaviour which occurred in June making national headlines. A video shows a large group of boys riding bikes through an Asda store in Brighton, pulling wheelies, intimidating customers and even physically assaulting one gentleman. Products are knocked to the floor and the boys appear to take items Read more about Is social media fuelling anti-social behaviour?[…]

The Online Safety Alliance has produced a set of eight glossy, colour posters to create an instant display for online safety / e-safety. Under the new statutory guidance for safeguarding, issues of online safety are taking more importance than ever. Schools need to be able to show that they are developing awareness among their pupils. Read more about Free online safety posters[…]

Safer Internet Day 2018 is fast approaching. On Tuesday 6th February schools up and down the country will be turning their attention to helping their pupils develop the knowledge and skills needed to stay safe online. Why not go the extra mile this year and get your pupils to undertake the OSA Certificate of Online Read more about Resources for Safer Internet Day 2018[…]

With Christmas just around the corner many parents will be turning to digital devices to be the present their teen or tween child will be most excited about. Many of these newly purchased devices will be disappearing into the bedrooms of children with doors closed. Parents need to be very concerned about how these devices Read more about Live streaming fears[…]

November 2017 Updates to content Peer-to-peer grooming is becoming an increasing problem, particularly with regard to encouraging sharing of inappropriate images. Games of ‘dare’ are being used which start small but lead the victim towards sharing of naked images. Our grooming unit has been updated to raise awareness of this and to encourage children to Read more about Certificate of Online Safety updates[…]

New research from the think-tank Demos has found that 26% of 16-18 year olds surveyed admitted they had ‘bullied or insulted someone else online’. It also indicated that there is a gender imbalance in this, with 32% of boys involved in online bullying in comparison to 22% of girls. These figures are of course likely Read more about Quarter of young people admit to bullying[…]