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Simfin

online safety and digital citizenship specialist

Naace Impact Award Winner for Leadership

For his commitment to ensuring a safe and supportive learning environment for the education sector

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11 May 2026

Developed by the UK Online Harms Early Warning Working Group, this guidance shares best practice and considerations for education settings and organisations working with children and young people on the use of photos and videos across their online platforms, to address the risk of AI image manipulation.

This document looks at the responsible management, sharing and protection of photographs and videos, particularly those featuring children and young people. This includes images used across education settings’ websites, social media platforms and other digital spaces.

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10 April 2026

Children are reporting online sextortion attempts in record numbers in the UK.

The Report Remove service, which allows children to flag intimate images or videos of themselves that have appeared, or could appear, online, said it received 394 reports from under-18s last year of blackmail attempts after sending sexual images to predators.

The figure is 34% higher than in 2024.

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14 June 2021

Andrew Hall Specialist Safeguarding Consultant's summary of Oftsed's review of sexual abuse in schools.

Sexual harassment and online sexual abuse are so commonplace that young people see no point in reporting incidents. These behaviours have become normalised.

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