Online Safety, Screen Use and Prevent Duty Policy

How your setting keeps children safe online, uses screens appropriately in line with the new early years screen use guidance, protects children’s images and meets the Prevent duty.

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Childcare

Online Safety, Screen Use and Prevent Duty Policy

About this document

What it’s for

Brings together online safety, children’s screen use, use of tablets and digital learning journals, staff use of social media, and the Prevent duty to protect children from radicalisation. It supports your Mobile Phone, Camera and Device Policy and your safeguarding policy.

When to use it

  • If children use any screens, tablets or interactive boards
  • If you use online learning journals, apps or social media
  • To show how you meet the Prevent duty and the screen use guidance from September 2026

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Purpose
  2. Screen use with children
  3. Devices, apps and internet
  4. Photographs and images
  5. Staff conduct online
  6. Online safety concerns
  7. The Prevent duty
  8. Training and review

Also included

  • Staff training record

How to complete it

  • List the devices and apps you use in section 3
  • Decide your screen time approach for each age group
  • Train staff and record Prevent training

Key points to check

  • The EYFS from 1 September 2026 requires providers to have regard to the early years screen use guidance – read it on GOV.UK
  • Early years providers are subject to the Prevent duty under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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