Safeguarding online

Everyone must understand their safeguarding responsibilities. All organisations must think about safeguarding children and adults who might be at risk, even if you don’t work with them all the time.

Safeguarding matters in everything you do digitally, from the impact of something you write online to how you store data. Here are some places to get started depending on what you know.

New to safeguarding? Start with our article about what safeguarding is and then work through our step by step guide to safeguarding in your organisation.
Need to do a safeguarding risk assessment for digital or online activities? To help predict the risks and learn about the most common ways of reducing risk use the Digisafe principles.
Want to work through a full process of thinking about your digital safeguarding policy and procedures, and lining them up with the rest of your practice? Work through the whole Digisafe toolkit.

This page was last reviewed for accuracy on 02 March 2021

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