Online safety and cyber security support

It can be challenging to integrate rapidly changing technology in education, while ensuring you continue to protect student safety online to be compliant with statutory safeguarding requirements. That’s where our experts can help. We can help empower staff, students and parents with essential online safety and cyber security advice and training.

How we can help

Our education specialists will help to guide your school’s online safety journey to deliver a whole-school preventative education programme and foster a safe digital environment for all students.  They can work with you to strengthen your cyber resilience, raise awareness of cyber threats and implement robust technical and operational controls against cyber threats to safeguard systems and users.  We’ll take a personalised approach to understand your unique needs and recommend tailored solutions. Our team includes certified National 360 Safe Online Safety Mark Assessors with extensive expertise in online safety protocols and best practices for the education sector to create and maintain safer online environments for students.

• Online safety training for school staff: comprehensive online safety training that includes the importance of understanding roles and responsibilities related to filtering and monitoring, awareness of current online risks, development of skills for managing online behaviours, and effective reporting of online safety concerns
• Online safety: provision for vulnerable students: advanced training for online safety to address the need for designated safeguard leads to have relevant knowledge and up-to-date capability required to keep children safe online
• Online safety for parents and carers: educates about the risks and opportunities in the online world, provides practical tips and strategies for maintaining a healthy relationship with technology, and improves their understanding of how to support their children in navigating the online environment responsibly.
• Online safety workshop for students and parents/carers: work through scenarios to identify potential risks and educate both the parents and student of actions that could be taken to mitigate the risk.  They will leave having created a home online safety agreement.
• Online safety review of provision: benefit from having a ‘critical friend’ to review your judgements of online safety provision using the 360 Safe Online Safety Self-Review Tool.
• Staff training for effective and safe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Focuses on understanding AI, its applications in lesson planning, resource creation, and administrative tasks, along with risk mitigation strategies.
• Developing a strategy for safe and effective use of AI for senior leadership: Covers benefits, limitations, and risks of AI in teaching, provides guidance for developing AI policy guidelines and risk assessments.
• Filtering and monitoring review: evaluate your current filtering and monitoring provision against the DfE's digital and technology standards for filtering and monitoring. Receive a detailed report outlining areas where you meet DfE standards and suggesting improvements. Set priorities for actions and provide evidence for governance regarding your filtering and monitoring provision.
• Cyber security review: evaluate your current cyber security provision against the DfE's digital and technology standards for cyber security. Receive a detailed report outlining areas where you meet DfE standards and suggesting improvements. Set priorities for actions and provide evidence for governance regarding your cyber security resilience.

By partnering with Capita Entrust, you can ensure your school confidently navigates the complexities of online safety and creates a secure digital environment for your students and staff.

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“Thank you for your planning, preparation and delivery of the workshops today. It was so positive to see all year 6 pupils attending with so many parents.  It is just what we were looking for and will get some key messages over to parents and pupils. I like how there is time for the pupil and parent to talk through the well thought out scenarios.”

Ms Justine Baker, Head Teacher, Grove Primary School

“Thank you for leading the excellent training for Governors. It was informative and comprehensive whilst helping to challenge the governors in their thinking and guiding them in their questions for SLT around safeguarding the children online and the security systems in place for school. The training helped governors to consider how to strategically plan for safeguarding online and what could be the challenges facing schools in the future. 

Jo Kennet, Head Teacher, St Edwards Catholic Primary

“I wanted to say a huge thank you for all the training you provided for us today. The staff session was particularly relevant for us and has given a lot for us to go away with, new resources to try, some things we need to implement and also increased confidence in what we are already doing as a school in some areas." 

Jo Kennet, Head Teacher, St Edwards Catholic Primary

"We requested a Cyber Security review through Capita Entrust against the DfE Standards as we felt that we needed to strengthen our knowledge and ensure our policies and processes in school were robust. We also have a statutory responsibility to report to the governing board. We were provided with a detailed and clear action plan against each standard. This provided us with a clear plan for improvement that we could immediately act on.  A few months later we were notified that Birmingham City Council were to undertake a Cyber Security Audit of our school.  As a result of the work, we had undertaken following our review with Capita Entrust, we were confident in the policies and procedures we had in place – this would not have been the case if we had not gone through this process." 

Dr Sarah Allen, Co-Headteacher, Clifton Primary School