Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025

For Information Version July 2025

Resources

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025

Generative AI Guidance and Support

Understanding and Responding to AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025

The Department for Education has published the latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education for 2025. 

No new substance

The changes in this 'for information' version are in the main technical, updated links and organisational changes. However, by the time Keeping Children Safe in Education comes into force on the 1st of September 2025, the DfE are anticipating that there will be new guidance to link to regarding relationships, sex and health education and revised guidance on gender questioning children. 

Online Risks and Harms

For now though there is updated wording and updated links for existing topics. From an online perspective, three areas are updated: firstly, adding to the list of safeguarding harms is misinformation; disinformation; conspiracy theories; a link to the Generative AI guidance that came out a few weeks ago (although I'm not sure that's the most helpful link); and a reference to the cyber security standards for schools.

Alternative Providers

KCSIE 2025 has now incorporated the safeguarding section from the DfE guidance 'Arranging alternative provision' (DfE, February 2025). See paragraphs 168 - 171.

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Although the Lucy Faithfull Foundation's HSB toolkit has been referenced for several years, KCSIE now links to the Shore Space online resource which offers a confidential chat service that supports young people who are concerned about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts and behaviours.