National Online Safety | Testimonials

"National Online Safety is an excellent online platform that offers lots of resources for online safety teaching as well as CPD for teaching staff and other members of the school community."

"Thank you so much for providing schools with such wonderful resources and doing what matters the most - providing educators, parents and children with such valuable knowledge about the fast-growing issues of online safety and mental wellbeing."

Thornton Primary School - Lyudmila Momot-Booth, Leader of Science and Computing

"It’s been an invaluable tool to ensure that children, staff and parents have access to a sound safeguarding knowledge when making the most of the internet as a learning resource."

"It’s been great! Especially for the community, because we are quite a small school and we have all worked as a community in partnership with parents to complete this award. It’s great to be recognised as a school that safeguards and keeps our children safe in all ways, including online safety, which is an area which is always developing, and becomes an integral part of children and young people’s lives."

Carlyle Infant & Nursery Academy - Priya Hayre, Reception Teacher and Early Years Lead

"National Online Safety was exactly what I was looking for. It was something which was up to date and regularly updated – saving me a lot time preparing materials to inform parents of new dangers."

"Whenever anything crops up at school now, like TikTok did recently, I can log onto the website, download the relevant guide and get it out to parents that day – that side of it has been absolutely brilliant"

St Nicholas Church of England Primary School -
Vicky Axon, Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead

"It’s been very rewarding for me personally, because we’ve put a lot of time into getting staff and parents signed up. Also for the school too, and the senior leadership team were delighted that it had been done, which is great."

"Another advantage is it’s always there so it’s not just a one-off CPD, if you want to go back and look at something, you can go back whenever. If you think you need help on this aspect you can just go back and look on the unit and it’s always there, so it’s not just one-off, it’s constant CPD."

Malvin's Close Academy - Laura-Jo Cavner, Year 5 Teacher

"It honestly has been the best resource. The consistency that the lesson plans have, the activities and the progression have all been so fantastic."

"It’s incredible that we’ve got some recognition for all the hard work that’s going on, and some recognition for the children’s knowledge. To be recognised for our work around online safety, under these circumstances, is amazing - we’re all happy and proud of ourselves for that."

St Helana's Church of England Primary School - Joshua Goddard, Year 6 and Online Safety Lead

"We chose it really to empower the children a little bit more, so that they had more of an understanding of what online safety was."

"We’ve now got the validation which we’ve put on our website and it is a validation that we’re focusing on online safety. It’s a really important point about your training, because not only have we achieved it, but that is there all year in terms of staff being able to go back and have a look at the videos."

Thomas Gray Primary School - Chris Davies, Year 4 Teacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead

"You have helped elevate the status of online safety at our school and I feel confident that our children are much safer than they would have been had we not used your resources."

"I like the layout of the new hub. It looks professional and has a much more user-friendly interface, especially for navigating the resources. The staff at school found the training easy to navigate and pick up where they left off. It is also extremely helpful to see where our school was in relation to achieving our certified school status and to see the progress of training throughout the school."

High Lawn Primary School - Heather Cardwell, Online Safety Lead

“The involvement from staff and parents has meant that we’ve had more people involved in our school community than we did last year. With the (Certified School) accreditation next year, we hope to make that bigger again."

“The package covered every strand within the new Connected World Framework, and it gave us something to aim for. The accreditations also allow everyone to receive up to date information.”

St Leonard’s C of E Primary School - Matthew Gaukroger, Computing Coordinator and Year 5/6 Class Teacher

""We're very excited about achieving the Certified School Accreditation. Our headteacher was thrilled."

"It's a great message to send out to parents and carers, showing that we are taking online safety seriously. I'm hoping this will encourage the whole school community to continue engaging with the training and resources."

"It's so easy to access, the resources are high-quality and very engaging. That's what sets it apart from any other provider."

Devonshire Road Primary School - Aaron Nalton, Computing Lead

"We're delighted to have achieved our Certified School Accreditation. Gaining a reward for the school is absolutely amazing! Even if you didn't offer the accreditation, I would still sign up to National Online Safety due to the breadth of CPD on offer."

"I hope that we stay with National Online Safety for a number as years, as what we get from the programme is brilliant. As a school leader, the scope I see for improving our staff using the resources from National Online Safety is huge.

"It's the ease of access too - I could make a list as long as my arm as to why this has worked so well for our school."

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School & Nursery - Pauline David, Headteacher

"It’s great that staff can dip in and out and each person is receiving bespoke CPD for their individual role. The fact that people can search the platform for what they need is fantastic.”

“Another thing is the fact that we can engage with parents and carers. To do that without National Online Safety would be extremely challenging.”

"Parents know that there is a resource there for them, should they need it. For our school, it’s knowing that we can access expert knowledge on online safety risks, in a flexible way. That is a real bonus.”

Clearwater C of E Primary Academy - Kate Moss, Headteacher

"Feedback has been extremely positive. Parents and carers now feel that they have online safety support at home. The platform provided us with a bank of the most up-to-date knowledge in a really user-friendly way. It’s been crucial to have that flexibility – particularly with parents who have varying work patterns.

"It’s a coherent approach to online safety for the whole school community, which offers us regularly updated resources that we can use to support the children.”

St Thomas' CE Primary Academy - Kachelle Shepherd

"The whole school have also said how good National Online Safety is."

“They’ve spoken about how easy it is to use and how good it is for training at home as well, because people have been able to complete the courses in their own time at their own pace. I love the way in which the courses are presented. They’re divided up into bitesize chunks, which allows you to get to the nitty gritty of the topic."

“We would definitely recommend National Online Safety to every school that we speak to!”

Ashton Primary School - Michelle Harrison-Baines, Year 4 Teacher

"We had been looking for ages to find something that was high quality. There’s a lot out there and you’re really bombarded as a teacher, and as a school leader, by spam, every single day to try and sell you CPD courses. So this looked to me like the best thing on the market in terms of quality of resources offered."

"What appeals to me massively is the way the system is set up: you can get all your staff trained, track their progress and monitor everything that’s going on. You make it very easy for me as an educator! You can track it which makes it so easy for our senior staff to pull reports from."

Winstanley College - Deborah Owen, Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead

"It can often feel that schools are quite reactive when it comes to online safety incidents and we wanted, as a school, to be proactive and the Certified School package from National Online Safety really ticked all of the boxes for us. We can reach out to staff, parents and students to give us all confidence that we are supporting online safety."

"It’s huge. To have the whole school community talking about online safety, it shows that the parents have also engaged – which is a big reward for them as well. It gives them the feeling that they’ve contributed something towards the school. I’m very proud and it adds a cherry on top of the cake in respect of the whole process."

Abbeyfield School and Sixth Form - Simon Down, Development of Character & Designated Safeguarding Lead

"One of the things that is really good about National Online Safety is that you tailor the training to different roles within the school,. It works for SENCOs, DSLs, parents... the whole school community."

"For me, what I like the most about it is the guides and information for parents – so that they can understand online risks. From a DSL point of view, those courses and certificates are fantastic. It provides reassurance that we're covering what we need to."

Leigh Academy Rainham - Alexandra Millward, Headteacher

“Parents and carers have loved the National Online Safety hub, we’ve had calls and messages thanking us for sharing the resource, as well as proud photographs of their certificates and achievements!”

“Being honest here, it’s a no-brainer! (to sign up for National Online Safety) The resources are high-quality, interesting, and informative, and it’s all just a click away, it’s so easy to use.”

Q3 Academy Great Barr - Luke Price, Assistant Vice Principal and Designated Safeguarding Lead

"Once we had done our research it was an easy decision; the resources provided by National Online Safety ensured that we were able to support and empower staff, parents and children alike."

"It has been very rewarding for the school as we are able to be clear in the importance of Internet Safety to our whole community. Being able to use the logo on all of our digital resources demonstrates our confidence and ensures that it stays a priority in everyone’s minds."

Badminton School - Helen Read, Marketing Manager

"I was tasked with looking at online safety for this year and making sure that we were really doing everything that we could to enhance our provision in that area, so to get the National Online Safety accreditation was really important to us this year."

"The platform is intuitive and easy to use too. For me, what’s always a challenge is tracking and monitoring compliance. The reports which you can from the platform are excellent, you get a list of everyone who’s completed that webinar or CPD opportunity.

CATS Canterbury - Emma Wilkinson, Vice Principal

"National Online Safety provided exactly what we needed, with resources for students and online training for all groups of stakeholders."

"We encourage all of our parents to complete the National Online Safety online training. As we push the boundaries of innovation and seek to offer an unrivalled online learning experience for our students and their families, we want everyone to join us to ensure that Sunmarke, physically or virtually, really is ‘Where Amazing Happens’."

Sunmarke School - Benjamin Atkins, Deputy Headteacher

"The training and resources provided by National Online Safety are extensive and comprehensive; they are a welcome addition to the safeguarding needs of schools within the UAE. Online safety resources here are limited and those that are available can be extremely expensive."

"Their Whole School Community Programme provides everything we need, from courses and educational resources to lesson plans and monthly updates. The staff have found their online platform easy to use and we have found it to also be a vital tool in helping to engage parents, despite some initial concerns over topics which may have been culturally sensitive."

Dubai College - Deborah Jones, Deputy Head: Pastoral

"Introducing this programme has benefitted us because there is a lot that parents are asked to do and keep up with, not by the school necessarily, but by life in general. The biggest advantage so far is the usability of the platform, and it’s so easy to use. The courses, guides and webinars are all there."

"“One of the key attractions of National Online Safety were the guides and how up-to-date they are and by reading one PDF or watching a short webinar, you can suddenly become fully knowledgeable about that area and speak quite confidently about it in front of students and parents as well."

Cambridge School of Bucharest - Heath Renfroe, Deputy School Director and Matthew Wemyss, Assistant School Director

"We shared our Certified School Accreditation news across all of our social media platforms. We’re really proud of that achievement, and it shows our commitment to digital safeguarding."

"I think that's one of the things that I am particularly proud of, too. It's the buy-in from the whole school community: we were really determined that it was going to be a serious commitment."

"There's so many different resources to draw upon. There isn't another website that I'm aware of which has such a comprehensive range of training and resources that are created so well."

Doha College - William Hanrahan (Head of Digital Learning, Primary)

""I'm very proud of everyone for achieving the Certified School Accreditation. We had nearly everyone in the school trained in online safety, which was a huge success for us. We're very proud to have achieved it!"

"As the online safety lead, it's been an outstanding tool for me to use. It helped me to deliver online safety training for the whole school community and staff received their certificates for that too. We also share the #WakeUpWednesday guides through our newsletter with parents."

British School of Paris -Emma Carralón, Head of E-Learning

" The Certified School Membership supports our wider safeguarding approach and policies too. We don’t need to be the experts, which is extremely helpful. It means that we can direct staff to the relevant training.”

“The weekly #WakeUpWednesday guides have been useful to send out to parents, carers and staff. Being able to use the monthly updates for our twilight sessions has been great, and we can track who has completed those as well.”

Danecourt Special School - Matt Smith, Assistant Headteacher

"The academic year of 2019/20, we had quite a few online safety incidents and then last year we saw those come right down."

“That proves that the training which staff are getting, the education, which they’re then passing onto the learners, along with the resources, is having that impact.

“Learners are now thinking about what they’re doing, what they’re saying, where they’re going, and that for me is the biggest advantage – it’s working.”

ALP Leicester - Kyle Spencer, ICT Specialist/Online Safety Officer

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Educational Resource Provider of the Year
Teach Awards 2019

"The National Online Safety Certified Community Package is a comprehensive and complete support system for schools and organisations to meet the ever-changing needs and contexts of primary settings. As a 100% digital resource, it is highly accessible and flexible to implement, and offers expert guidance to a range of users from teachers, to leaders, to school governors and parents. The cost of the package (£2500-3000) may not feel affordable for all primary schools, though the benefits and rigour of the package do provide strong value-for-money, with lesson plans linked directly to the UKCCIS Framework and resources frequently updated in response to emerging trends and risks to children’s online safety."

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Teach Awards 2019

"Having informed, up-to-date and age-appropriate conversations about online safety with children isn’t easy which is why the #WakeUpWednesday campaign and resources from National Online Safety is so welcome.

In a fast-moving and hyper-connected world, these resources have a massive role to play in educating the whole school community about privacy, information and children’s rights, management of time and space, the role of technology within relationships, digital citizenship, digital consumption, data protection, respect, consent and empathy with others, the role of media, well-being and mental health.

As a superb knowledge base, these are highly informative and engaging guides full of top tips for helping adults monitor and guide children’s digital behaviours so they can navigate the dangers and enjoy the online world responsibly."

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Education Investor Awards 2021

"National Education Group's growth from a start-up only a few years ago has been tremendous. It's ability to offer high quality video led CPD content alongside online safety education is being lapped up by schools. Against some innovative competition for this award NEG stood out, with thousands of schools now subscribing to its platforms. A real success story.

I believe that NEG stands out from the crowd and has focused on an online educational solutions for schools that whilst it is focused on the UK has the potential to be ground breaking internationally."