Policy ready text
The paragraphs below are written to drop into your school’s published RSE and online safety policy. Adapt names and details to your context. Your policy must be published online and available free of charge, and must be consulted on with parents before it is finalised: the parent pack in this Hub provides the sample materials for that consultation.
The programme (for your curriculum section)
Digital literacy and online safety are taught through the Guided Childhood Schools programme: a sequenced scheme of twenty one modules from Reception to Year 13, covering all eight strands of the UKCIS Education for a Connected World framework and mapped to the DfE RSHE statutory guidance (2025), Keeping Children Safe in Education (2025), and the Citizenship and Computing programmes of study. Each lesson is taught by a class teacher from a fully scripted interactive lesson, with printed materials for pupils, an action for home in every lesson, and a note to parents that requires no login or sign up. The programme supplements and does not replace the school’s wider PSHE provision.
Parental transparency (required wording territory)
Parents and carers may view any teaching material used in this programme on request, at any time. The school’s licence with Guided Childhood explicitly permits sharing lesson materials with parents of pupils taught from them, and no contractual term restricts this. Sample materials for every module, including all safeguarding flagged content, were shared with parents as part of the consultation on this policy, and remain available from the school office or via the programme’s parent pack.
Sensitive content and safeguarding (for your safeguarding section)
Five modules carry content the school treats with additional care: online bullying (Years 3 to 6), body image and the harms of pornography (Years 7 to 9), consent and image sharing, sextortion, and radicalisation and misogyny (Years 10 to 11). Each carries a written note for the Designated Safeguarding Lead, staff briefing guidance, and teacher scripts that include disclosure handling in line with our safeguarding policy. Content in these modules is age appropriate, non graphic, and centred on recognising harm, refusing pressure, reporting routes, and the message that a young person who discloses is not in trouble. The platform records no pupil disclosures: all safeguarding concerns follow the school’s own reporting systems.
Pupil data (for your data protection section)
The programme is designed for data minimisation. Pupils do not have accounts, logins or passwords. The only pupil data processed is a first name and initial, entered by the teacher for class organisation and printed quiz personalisation, and lesson participation records. No behavioural profiling, no advertising, no data sharing with third parties beyond the infrastructure providers named in the programme’s data protection pack, which is available to our Data Protection Officer.
Right to withdraw (adapt to your school’s position)
The content of this programme sits within health education, online safety and citizenship, from which there is no parental right of withdrawal. Where any lesson touches sex education content beyond the national curriculum for science, parents have the right to request withdrawal in line with statutory guidance, and the school will consider such requests as set out in this policy. In practice this programme teaches digital literacy and online safety and does not deliver sex education.
This text is a starting point, not legal advice. Your policy remains your school’s own document and should be reviewed by your PSHE lead, DSL and governing body in the normal way.