Keeping children safe in education 2025 update

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 published

KCSIE 2025 was been published on 1 September 2025 and comes into force immediately.

There are no changes from the version distributed in July.

• There is a note that the DfE intend to publish the 'revised guidance on gender questioning children soon'.
• You can download the final version (and the part one section aimed at all staff) here.

Online Safety

Three key areas have been updated to the online safety section:

• Misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories
• New link to the Generative AI guidance
• Reference to the Cyber Security Standards for schools

Also included is a new resource to support how we understand and respond to such materials as professionals Understanding and responding to AI-generated child sexual abuse material

Alternative provision

KCSIE 2025 now embeds safeguarding guidance from the DfE guidance Arranging alternative provision (DfE, February 2025)

Support for harmful sexual behaviour

Alongside the long-standing Lucy Faithfull Foundation toolkit, KCSIE now links to the Shore Space which is a confidential online chat service for young people concerned about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts and behaviours.