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Real-World Safety

Practical guidance for keeping children safe beyond the screen — at home, at school, in public, and while travelling.

School Pickup Safety

Practical guidance on keeping children safe during school drop-off and pickup, including authorised collection and emergency plans.

Sleepover Safety

A practical guide to ensuring your child is safe at sleepovers, including what to ask, what to agree, and how to prepare.

Body Safety & Consent

Age-appropriate guidance on teaching children about body safety, personal boundaries, and consent.

Water Safety

Practical guidance on keeping children safe around water, from garden ponds to open water and swimming pools.

Road Safety

Practical road safety guidance for children of all ages, from holding hands to independent travel.

Safety in Public Places

Practical guidance on keeping children safe in shops, parks, events, and other public places.

Travel Safety with Children

Practical tips for keeping children safe during travel, whether by car, public transport, or on holiday.

Emergency Contact Planning

How to create and maintain an emergency contact plan so your child always knows who to reach and how.

Missing Child Preparation

How to prepare in advance so you can respond quickly and effectively if your child ever goes missing.

Unsafe Secrets & Manipulation

Recognising when a child is being asked to keep unsafe secrets, whether by peers or adults, and how manipulation tactics work both online and offline.

Tutoring & One-to-One Coaching Safety

How to ensure one-to-one tutoring, coaching, and mentoring arrangements are safe for children.

Transport & Pickup Arrangement Safety

Ensuring safe pickup, drop-off, and transport arrangements for children in various settings.

Changing Room & Privacy in Organisations

Ensuring appropriate privacy standards in changing rooms, toilets, and private spaces in organisations working with children.

Photography & Filming Policies

Understanding and implementing appropriate photography and filming policies at events, schools, and organisations involving children.

Holiday Club & Camp Safety

Ensuring children are safe at holiday clubs, summer camps, and activity programmes.

Staying Safe at Friends' Houses

Guidance for parents on ensuring children are safe when visiting or staying at friends' houses.

Extracurricular Activity Safety

How to ensure your child is safe at clubs, classes, and organised activities outside school hours.

Community Event Safety

Keeping children safe at community events, festivals, fairs, and public gatherings.

Residential Care Safety

Understanding the specific safeguarding risks faced by children in residential care and how professionals and carers can mitigate them.

Online-to-Offline Meeting Risks

The risks when children arrange to meet someone in person that they first met online, and how to reduce the danger.

Child Neglect

Recognising and responding to physical, emotional, and educational neglect — the most common form of child abuse in the UK.

Emotional Abuse

Understanding emotional and psychological maltreatment — the persistent behaviours that damage a child's mental health and sense of self-worth.

Physical Abuse

Recognising non-accidental physical injury in children and knowing how to respond appropriately.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Understanding FGM, the mandatory reporting duty under the Serious Crime Act 2015, and how to recognise children at risk.

Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

Understanding child sexual exploitation — how it differs from grooming, the warning signs, and how to report concerns.

Peer-on-Peer Abuse

Understanding abuse carried out by children against other children — including bullying, sexual harassment, violence, and sexting — and schools' duties under KCSIE.

Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB)

Understanding age-inappropriate or harmful sexual behaviour in children and young people, and how to assess and respond using evidence-based frameworks.

County Lines

Understanding how criminal networks use children and young people as runners in drug supply operations, and how to spot the warning signs.

Modern Slavery & Child Trafficking

Understanding how children are trafficked and exploited within the UK and internationally, and how to make a National Referral Mechanism referral.

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)

Understanding child criminal exploitation beyond county lines — including cuckooing, fraud, and theft — and the safeguarding response.

Sexual Harassment in Schools

Understanding unwanted sexual comments, touching, and online harassment between pupils, and schools' duties under KCSIE Part 5.

Upskirting

Understanding the criminal offence of upskirting under the Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019, and how to report it.

Knife Crime Awareness

Understanding the risks of knife crime for young people, recognising the warning signs that a child may be involved or at risk, and knowing where to get help.

Drink Spiking

Understanding the risks of drink spiking, recognising the symptoms, and knowing what to do if you suspect a young person's drink has been tampered with.

Festival & Concert Safety

Keeping young people safe at festivals and concerts — including crowd safety, drug risks, phone theft, and the risk of predatory adults.

Forced Marriage & Honour-Based Abuse

Understanding forced marriage and honour-based abuse, recognising the warning signs, and knowing how to access specialist support.

AirTag and Tracker Stalking

Apple AirTags, Tile trackers, and similar devices can be misused to secretly track children, ex-partners using shared family devices, or anyone the abuser wishes to monitor.

Smart-Home Surveillance of Children

Ring doorbells, Nest cams, smart speakers, and indoor cameras have moved into family homes — what UK GDPR and the ICO's Age-Appropriate Design Code say about monitoring your own children, and where the safeguarding line sits.

Drone & Camera Privacy of Children

Drones, GoPros, action cameras, and body-worn cameras around children — the CAA Drone Code, lawful filming in public, school and park boundaries, and how to respond when your child is filmed without consent.