While the Online Safety Act marked a significant step toward regulation, professionals in schools and children’s services still face challenges in applying and keeping pace with the law. With the ever-evolving digital landscape it is more critical than ever to build robust safeguarding strategies.

• Over 40% of teens say they’ve seen AI-generated sexual content or deepfakes involving someone they know (Thorn, 2025)
• 1 in 3 children aged 8–17 have encountered violent or hateful material online in the past year (Ofcom, 2025)
• 92% of children aged 11–16 use social media daily, but nearly half say it negatively affects their wellbeing (YoungMinds, 2025)

Join us at this one day online conference where leading voices in policy, education, law enforcement, and child protection will explore the most pressing challenges in keeping children safe online. Through expert-led keynotes, practical case studies, and cross-sector collaboration, this event will offer strategies for tackling image-based abuse, radicalisation, misinformation, harmful algorithms, and AI-driven threats, while equipping professionals with tools to create digitally resilient and empowered young people.

• High-level keynotes on the latest initiatives on protecting children online from policymakers and leading experts
• Case studies showing best practice in strategies that implement school-wide policies on online safety and best safeguard children
• A wide range of topics including radicalisation online, providing support for children with SEND, and co-producing digital safeguarding strategies
• Network with senior colleagues from across the public and voluntary sectors
• Gain 8 hours of CPD points towards your yearly quota.