Sexting Workshops for Schools, Colleges, Universities and Staff Training
2020 Dreams Sexting Workshops help children, young people, students and professionals understand digital consent, intimate image sharing, online privacy, pressure for nudes, revenge porn, sextortion, grooming, cyberflashing and the rapidly changing risks created by AI-generated sexual imagery.
Our Sexting Workshops for Schools are particularly relevant to secondary education, where pupils are navigating relationships, group chats, disappearing messages, social media, sexual pressure and increasingly sophisticated forms of online manipulation. Programmes are also adapted for upper primary, sixth forms, colleges, universities, SEND and SEMH settings, PRUs and alternative provision, charities, youth organisations, staff teams, professional groups, workplaces and corporate events.
The purpose is not to shame young people for using technology or to suggest that one mistake will permanently destroy their future. Instead, our Sexting Workshops give participants practical language for understanding privacy, consent, pressure, image sharing, manipulation and help-seeking. They learn what can go wrong, why it can happen and what to do if an intimate image is requested, shared, copied, threatened or used against somebody.
The workshop also recognises an important safeguarding distinction: consensual peer communication, pressured image sharing, malicious forwarding, adult grooming, sexual exploitation and criminal sextortion are not the same thing. Effective education helps pupils understand those differences rather than treating every incident as identical.
Core Features of Our Sexting Workshops
- What sexting means and why current safeguarding terminology matters
- Sharing nudes and semi-nudes
- Digital consent and image sharing
- Online privacy and personal information
- Pressure to send sexual or intimate images
- Healthy relationships, trust and boundaries
- Revenge porn and intimate image abuse
- Threats to share intimate images
- Sextortion and online blackmail
- Online grooming, catfishing and false identities
- Cyberflashing and unsolicited sexual images
- AI sexual deepfakes and nudification tools
- Temporary images, screenshots and screen recording
- Group chats and forwarding private material
- Digital footprints without scare tactics
- Privacy settings, passwords and account security
- Reporting, blocking and safeguarding support
- Supporting a friend whose image has been shared
- Staff training and incident-response awareness
- Current RSHE, KCSIE and UKCIS guidance
Schools, colleges, universities and organisations can book standalone or combined Sexting Workshops or build a wider safeguarding programme with our Healthy Relationships Workshops, Consent Workshops, Pornography Workshops, Online Blackmail and Sextortion Workshop and Online Safety Workshops.
What Is Sexting?
“Sexting” is an informal term that can refer to sexual messages, nude or semi-nude images, underwear images, sexual videos, live streams or other intimate content sent digitally.
For safeguarding work with under-18s, current UK Council for Internet Safety guidance uses the clearer term “sharing nudes and semi-nudes”. This refers to the sending or posting of nude or semi-nude images, videos or live streams by young people under 18 online, including through social media, gaming platforms, messaging apps, forums and device-to-device sharing.
This terminology matters because young people may understand “sexting” to mean sexual text messages, while adults may use the same term to describe intimate photographs or videos. Our Sexting Workshops make the behaviour itself clear so that pupils understand exactly what is being discussed.
Different scenarios can include:
🔹 Two young people exchanging sexual messages
🔹 A young person choosing to send an intimate image to a partner
🔹 Repeated pressure to send a nude
🔹 An image being forwarded without consent
🔹 Somebody showing a private image to friends
🔹 A partner threatening to share an image after a break-up
🔹 An adult posing as another teenager
🔹 Sextortion for money or further images
🔹 A fake sexual image created using AI
🔹 An unsolicited sexual image being sent to somebody
The safeguarding response depends on context. Age, consent, pressure, malicious intent, power imbalance, adult involvement, exploitation and immediate risk all matter.
Why Schools Need Sexting Workshops in 2026
Young people’s relationships increasingly operate across both physical and digital spaces. A conversation that begins in school can continue through messaging apps, social media, gaming chat, video calls and disappearing-message features long after the school day has finished.
The revised statutory RSHE guidance for introduction from 1 September 2026 places clear emphasis on online relationships, image and information sharing, sexual consent in online contexts, harmful online behaviour, AI-generated sexual imagery and deepfakes.
The guidance specifically expects secondary pupils to understand that material shared with one person can be redistributed, that compromising material can be difficult to remove, what to do and where to get help, and relevant legal provisions around image and information sharing including “sexting”, youth-produced sexual imagery and nudes.
Sexting Workshops for Schools therefore sit naturally within RSHE, PSHE, safeguarding and online-safety education. They give pupils a structured opportunity to explore a topic that is often discussed informally through peers before young people receive reliable information from adults.
What Current Evidence Shows
The safeguarding landscape has moved beyond the older idea of sexting as simply “teenagers sending pictures”. Current evidence increasingly links intimate image sharing with coercion, blackmail, online grooming, malicious forwarding and AI manipulation.
Sextortion cases
The Internet Watch Foundation recorded 397 sexually coerced extortion cases involving children in 2025.
Year-on-year increase
IWF reported that the sexually coerced extortion cases it recorded rose by 127% compared with the previous year.
Victims were boys aged 14–17
IWF found boys aged 14–17 accounted for 98% of victims in the sextortion cases it recorded in 2025.
These figures should not be used to imply that every sexting incident becomes exploitation. They show why modern Sexting Workshops need to cover both peer-to-peer behaviour and more serious situations involving blackmail, grooming, coercion or organised offending.
The 2020 Dreams PRIVACY Check
A unique feature of our Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops is the PRIVACY Check. It gives pupils a practical way to slow down before sharing personal or intimate material.
Do you know them offline or are you relying entirely on what their account tells you?
Is the request intimate, identifying, private or something you would not normally share publicly?
Affection, flirting, curiosity, pressure, manipulation and exploitation can initially look similar.
Could it be saved, screen-recorded, photographed, forwarded, shown to friends or posted elsewhere?
An image can reveal a face, bedroom, location, school uniform, username, contacts or other identifying information.
Repeated asking, guilt, threats, fear or emotional pressure are not the same as freely choosing.
Pause, refuse, leave, block, report, preserve appropriate evidence or speak to a trusted adult.
The SHARE Test: Before an Image Goes Further
Our second unique framework focuses on the person receiving content. Young people need to understand that responsibility does not end with the original sender.
Do not automatically forward what you receive.
Could sharing this embarrass, expose or endanger somebody?
Did the person actually consent to wider sharing?
Receiving content does not give you ownership over it.
Delete, report, block or seek support when appropriate.
The SHARE Test moves the conversation away from only telling young people not to send images. It also challenges the peer culture that can develop when private material is treated as entertainment.
Digital Consent: Sending an Image Is Not Consent to Share It
A central principle in our Sexting Workshops is that consent still matters once content becomes digital.
If somebody agrees to send an intimate image to one person, that does not automatically mean they agree to:
🔹 The image being forwarded
🔹 A screenshot being taken
🔹 A screen recording being made
🔹 The image being shown to friends
🔹 The image being uploaded publicly
🔹 The image being used after a relationship ends
🔹 The image being edited or manipulated
🔹 AI-generated material being created from it
Consent to create or send content is not consent to redistribute it.
This connects directly with our Healthy Relationships Workshops, which explore trust, equality, privacy, communication, boundaries and controlling behaviour in greater depth.
Healthy Relationships, Sexting and Pressure for Nudes
Sexting is often presented as a technology issue, but many incidents are also relationship issues. Pressure may come from somebody a young person likes, trusts or wants approval from.
Our Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops help participants distinguish between:
🔹 Asking and pressuring
🔹 Trust and surveillance
🔹 Flirting and coercion
🔹 Privacy and secrecy
🔹 Affection and emotional blackmail
🔹 Healthy communication and repeated demands
🔹 Break-up emotions and retaliation
Young people explore why statements such as “if you trusted me, you would send one” or “everyone else does it” can turn a personal decision into pressure.
A healthy relationship does not require somebody to prove loyalty by surrendering passwords, location, private messages or intimate images. Settings wanting greater depth can combine the programme with our Healthy Relationships Workshops.
Pressure, Manipulation and the Nude Request Ladder
Pressure does not always begin with a threat. Our Nude Request Ladder helps pupils see how a request can gradually become coercive.
“Would you send me a picture?”
“Come on, I’ve asked three times.”
“If you trusted me, you would.”
“Everyone does it. Stop being childish.”
“Send another or I’ll share the one I have.”
The image is now being used to demand money, further content or behaviour.
The pathway is not presented as inevitable. Its purpose is to show pupils that coercion can develop gradually and that asking for help early is a strength rather than an admission of failure.
Revenge Porn and Intimate Image Abuse
“Revenge porn” remains a widely recognised term, but it does not describe every incident accurately. Private intimate images can be misused for retaliation, humiliation, peer status, sexual gratification, coercion, blackmail or simply because somebody disregards another person’s privacy.
For that reason, intimate image abuse is often the more useful broader term.
Our Sexting Workshops can explore:
🔹 Sharing an intimate image without consent
🔹 Threatening to share an image
🔹 Showing an image to friends
🔹 Posting private material after a break-up
🔹 Humiliating somebody through sexual content
🔹 Using images for control or blackmail
🔹 Copying temporary or view-once content
🔹 Manipulating images
🔹 AI-generated sexual imagery
The workshop avoids victim-blaming. Somebody who originally chose to send an image is not responsible for another person’s decision to misuse it.
Our Pornography Workshops also explore digital consent, intimate image abuse, sexual media and how non-consensual material differs from consensual sexual content.
Sextortion and Online Blackmail
Sextortion is a form of blackmail in which sexual or intimate material is used to threaten or coerce somebody. Offenders may demand money, more images, sexual acts or another form of compliance.
Financially motivated sextortion is particularly relevant to older teenage boys. Current IWF evidence shows boys aged 14–17 are heavily represented in reported sexually coerced extortion cases.
Offenders may use:
🔹 Fake accounts
🔹 Stolen profile photographs
🔹 Pre-recorded videos
🔹 Apparently convincing peer profiles
🔹 Rapid flirting and sexual escalation
🔹 Threats to contact friends or family
🔹 Demands for money
🔹 Demands for further images
The workshop teaches a simple response:
STOP → DON’T PAY → DON’T SEND MORE → SAVE APPROPRIATE EVIDENCE → BLOCK/REPORT → TELL SOMEONE
Where there is immediate danger, threats of violence, suicidal distress or serious exploitation, urgent safeguarding or emergency support may be necessary.
For specialist delivery, see our Online Blackmail and Sextortion Workshop.
Online Grooming, Catfishing and False Identities
Not everybody requesting an image online is who they claim to be. Grooming can involve an adult or older person presenting as a peer, developing trust and then moving communication towards secrecy, sexual content or a more private platform.
Possible warning signs can include:
🔹 A new account becoming intense very quickly
🔹 Pressure to move to a private or encrypted platform
🔹 Requests for secrecy
🔹 Sexual conversation escalating quickly
🔹 Requests for intimate images
🔹 Gifts, gaming credit or money
🔹 Inconsistent personal information
🔹 Threats after an image is sent
🔹 Attempts to isolate a young person from adults or friends
The aim is not to teach pupils that every stranger online is dangerous. It is to build judgement around identity, privacy, pressure and the point at which a conversation should be ended or reported.
Cyberflashing and Unsolicited Sexual Images
Cyberflashing involves sending somebody an unwanted sexual image. Receiving sexual content without asking for it can be intimidating, distressing or humiliating.
Ofcom strengthened its online-safety framework in 2026 in response to cyberflashing and other priority offences. For pupils, the practical learning remains straightforward:
🔹 Nobody owes an image in return
🔹 Receiving an unwanted image does not create an obligation to engage
🔹 Forwarding an unwanted image can create further harm
🔹 Blocking and reporting tools are available
🔹 Repeated, threatening or adult-involved behaviour should be reported to a trusted adult or professional
AI Deepfakes, Fake Nudes and Nudification Tools
Modern Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops must address images that were never genuinely photographed. AI tools can create realistic fake sexual images or alter an ordinary photograph to appear nude or sexualised.
Sessions can cover:
🔹 Sexual deepfakes
🔹 AI-generated intimate images
🔹 Nudification tools
🔹 Fake screenshots
🔹 Manipulated images used for humiliation
🔹 Manipulated images used for blackmail
🔹 Consent when the content is fabricated
🔹 Why a fake image can still cause real harm
The Crime and Policing Act 2026 contains new intimate-image provisions. Section 99, which came into force on 29 June 2026, creates offences concerning the making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply tools for generating purported intimate images. The Act also contains wider measures relating to intimate image abuse, including temporary-image copying and takedown arrangements, with commencement depending on the relevant provision.
For specialist AI education, see our AI & Deepfake Workshops.
View Once Does Not Mean Impossible to Copy
Young people may assume that disappearing or “view once” content is automatically private. These features can reduce some forms of saving, but they do not remove every possibility of copying.
Content may potentially be captured through:
🔹 Screenshots
🔹 Screen recording
🔹 Another device photographing the screen
🔹 Account compromise
🔹 Platform or device features
🔹 Temporary content being copied in ways the sender did not expect
The lesson is not that privacy is impossible. It is that platform features cannot replace trust, consent and judgement.
Online Privacy: What Can an Image Reveal?
Online privacy goes beyond whether somebody sends a nude. An ordinary image can reveal information that the sender did not consciously choose to disclose.
A photograph or video can sometimes reveal:
🔹 School uniform or logo
🔹 Bedroom or home environment
🔹 Street signs or landmarks
🔹 Usernames or notifications
🔹 Friends or family members
🔹 Work badges or ID cards
🔹 Mirrors or reflections
🔹 Background information that helps identify a location
Our Online Privacy Workshops help pupils think beyond the assumption that “private account” automatically means private information.
Digital Footprints Without Scare Tactics
Older online-safety messaging sometimes suggested that anything posted online is “there forever” and will inevitably damage a person’s university or employment prospects. That is too simplistic.
A more accurate message is that digital content can be:
🔹 Copied
🔹 Forwarded
🔹 Screen-captured
🔹 Reposted
🔹 Stored by other users
🔹 Rediscovered later
Some material can be removed and specialist services can help. Young people therefore need both prevention and recovery messages: think before sharing, but seek help quickly if something has already happened.
What Should a Young Person Do If an Image Has Been Shared?
The response should prioritise safety and support rather than shame.
Speak to a trusted adult, DSL, safeguarding professional, parent/carer or another safe source of support.
Do not circulate an intimate image further in an attempt to prove what happened.
Use platform reporting tools and involve adults where the situation is serious.
Services such as Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation’s Report Remove can help eligible young people seek removal of sexual images of themselves online.
Grooming, blackmail, malicious sharing, adult involvement, immediate danger or serious distress may require police, children’s social care or emergency support.
Sexting and the Law: What Pupils Need to Know
The law concerning sexual images of under-18s is important, but it needs to be taught proportionately. Pupils should understand that creating, possessing or sharing indecent images of children can engage criminal law, including where an image was created by a young person themselves.
However, schools should not teach this as though every child who makes a mistake will automatically be prosecuted. Current UKCIS guidance places the primary emphasis on welfare, safeguarding and proportionate response.
UKCIS distinguishes between situations involving peer experimentation and more serious incidents involving adult offenders, coercion, malicious intent, blackmail, threats, exploitation or reckless misuse. That distinction is central to our Sexting Workshops for Schools.
When Sexting Becomes a Safeguarding Concern
An incident may require urgent safeguarding attention where:
🔹 An adult is involved
🔹 A young person has been groomed
🔹 Somebody has been coerced or blackmailed
🔹 Images were shared maliciously
🔹 There is a significant age or power difference
🔹 Behaviour is persistent
🔹 Money or profit is involved
🔹 A young person is being threatened
🔹 There is evidence of sexual exploitation
🔹 A child is at immediate risk of harm
🔹 A young person is suicidal or self-harming following an incident
The workshop builds awareness and help-seeking. Individual incidents should be managed through the setting’s safeguarding procedures.
How Staff Should Respond to a Nude or Semi-Nude Incident
Current UKCIS guidance states that incidents involving nudes and semi-nudes should be referred to the DSL or equivalent as soon as possible and managed through the setting’s child-protection procedures.
Frontline staff should not:
🔹 Ask a child to send them the image
🔹 Copy or print the image
🔹 Save the image themselves
🔹 Forward it to colleagues
🔹 Investigate the image independently
🔹 Shame or blame the child
Instead, pupils should be reassured that speaking to an adult was the right thing to do and the concern should be escalated appropriately.
Sexting Workshop Overview
Sexting Workshops, RSHE 2026 and Online Safeguarding
The revised statutory Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education guidance is introduced from 1 September 2026.
For secondary pupils, the guidance includes online risks, redistribution of material, reporting content, online consent and relevant law concerning image and information sharing, including sexting, youth-produced sexual imagery and nudes. It also strengthens teaching around AI-generated sexual imagery, deepfakes and harmful online behaviour.
UKCIS guidance also states that teaching about sharing nudes and semi-nudes should sit within Relationships Education/RSE and the school’s wider online-safety and Computing provision. It emphasises healthy and respectful relationships, consent, trust, safeguarding and confidence in seeking help.
KCSIE 2026 comes into force on 1 September 2026. External workshops can support curriculum and safeguarding education, but schools remain responsible for statutory safeguarding duties, incident response, curriculum planning and decisions concerning individual pupils.
Sexting Workshops for Secondary Schools
Sexting Workshops for Secondary Schools are the core version of this programme. KS3 and KS4 pupils can explore relationships, pressure, privacy, digital consent and image sharing through realistic age-appropriate scenarios.
Secondary content can include:
🔹 What sexting and sharing nudes means
🔹 Why young people may send images
🔹 Pressure from partners or peers
🔹 Digital consent
🔹 Image forwarding
🔹 Revenge porn and intimate image abuse
🔹 Sextortion
🔹 Grooming and catfishing
🔹 Cyberflashing
🔹 Online privacy
🔹 AI deepfakes
🔹 Current law
🔹 Reporting and safeguarding
🔹 Supporting a friend
Online Privacy Foundations for Upper Primary
Upper-primary delivery should not simply reproduce a secondary sexting lesson. For younger pupils, the focus is privacy, personal information, online boundaries, trusted adults and what to do if somebody asks for an uncomfortable image.
Age-appropriate content can include:
🔹 Private vs public information
🔹 Safe image sharing
🔹 Personal boundaries
🔹 Trusted adults
🔹 Unwanted contact
🔹 Unsafe online secrets
🔹 Blocking and reporting
🔹 What to do if an image makes them uncomfortable
UKCIS guidance explicitly recognises that basic principles of consensual image sharing can be taught to primary-aged children without discussing nudes and semi-nudes specifically.
Sexting Workshops for Sixth Forms and Colleges
Post-16 learners are navigating increasing independence, adult relationships, dating apps, nightlife and more private digital communication.
Sexting Workshops for Colleges and Sixth Forms can explore:
🔹 Adult relationships and digital consent
🔹 Intimate image abuse
🔹 Sextortion and financial blackmail
🔹 Online dating and catfishing
🔹 Stalking and repeated contact
🔹 Cyberflashing
🔹 Break-ups and image misuse
🔹 AI sexual deepfakes
🔹 Privacy and professional reputation
🔹 Reporting and support routes
Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops for Universities
Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops for Universities can support Freshers programmes, student induction, consent campaigns, student residences, safeguarding initiatives and wellbeing programmes.
University content can include digital consent, intimate image abuse, revenge porn, cyberflashing, sextortion, dating apps, stalking, AI deepfakes, professional reputation, supporting friends and reporting routes.
Sexting Workshops for SEND, SEMH, PRUs and Alternative Provision
Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops can be adapted for SEND, SEMH, PRUs and alternative provision through clearer language, concrete examples, repetition, visual scenarios and additional time to explore privacy and consent.
Some learners may benefit from extra emphasis on:
🔹 What information is private
🔹 Who can ask for an image
🔹 Recognising manipulation
🔹 Saying no
🔹 Online friendships
🔹 False identities
🔹 Blocking and reporting
🔹 Who to tell
Adaptation is based on the needs of the actual group rather than assuming all learners with additional needs require the same approach.
Sexting and Online Privacy Staff Training
Sexting Staff Training is available for teachers, DSLs, safeguarding teams, pastoral staff, youth workers, university teams and other professionals.
Training can cover:
🔹 Current terminology: sexting vs sharing nudes and semi-nudes
🔹 Consensual, pressured and abusive incidents
🔹 The role of the DSL
🔹 When police or social care may need to be involved
🔹 Avoiding victim-blaming
🔹 Sextortion and blackmail
🔹 Revenge porn and intimate image abuse
🔹 AI-generated sexual imagery
🔹 What staff should not do with an image
🔹 Supporting parents and carers
🔹 Recording and escalating safeguarding concerns
🔹 RSHE 2026 and online image sharing
External training supports professional development but does not replace statutory safeguarding training or the setting’s own child-protection procedures.
Corporate and Professional Sexting & Online Privacy Training
The topic is also relevant to workplaces, professional teams, charities and corporate events, particularly where organisations want to address digital consent, intimate image abuse, cyberflashing, professional boundaries, online harassment and staff awareness.
Adult-focused programmes can include:
🔹 Digital consent
🔹 Intimate image abuse
🔹 Cyberflashing
🔹 Online harassment
🔹 Professional online conduct
🔹 Privacy and reputation
🔹 Bystander responsibility
🔹 Internal reporting routes
🔹 Supporting colleagues experiencing online abuse
Safeguarding Outcomes from Sexting Workshops
Well-designed Sexting Workshops should leave young people more willing to seek help, not more frightened of doing so.
Participants should understand:
🔹 Pressure is not consent
🔹 Trust does not require surrendering privacy
🔹 Receiving an image does not give permission to share it
🔹 Somebody can seek help even if they originally chose to send an image
🔹 Sextortion should not be managed alone
🔹 Adults and safeguarding professionals can help
🔹 Serious threats, exploitation or adult involvement require escalation
This is particularly important because shame is one of the factors that can prevent young people from disclosing image-based abuse or blackmail.
Benefits of Sexting Workshops
Participants understand that permission to receive content is not permission to redistribute it.
Pupils recognise what personal information can be revealed through images, accounts and digital communication.
Young people learn to identify guilt, repeated requests, threats, blackmail and grooming.
Participants understand where to go if an image has been shared or somebody is threatening them.
Responsibility is placed on the person who misuses an image rather than shaming the person depicted.
AI deepfakes, nudification, sextortion and cyberflashing are included where relevant.
How We Deliver Sexting Workshops
PERSON → REQUEST → INTENTION → VISIBILITY → ACCESS → CONSENT → YOUR NEXT STEP.
STOP → HARM → AGREEMENT → RESPONSIBILITY → EXIT helps recipients think before forwarding private content.
REQUEST → REPEAT → GUILT → PRESSURE → THREAT → CONTROL shows how coercion can escalate.
Realistic situations explore pressure, relationships, image sharing, sextortion, catfishing and AI manipulation.
Pupils are not told that a mistake defines them or that asking for help will automatically lead to punishment.
Upper primary, secondary, post-16, university, SEND, staff and corporate audiences receive different examples and depth.
Related Sexting, Relationships and Online Safety Workshops
Schools, colleges, universities and organisations can combine Sexting Workshops with related 2020 Dreams programmes where a particular safeguarding concern needs greater depth.
Healthy Relationships Workshops
Trust, privacy, communication, consent, boundaries, controlling behaviour and healthy relationships.
Consent Workshops
Consent, boundaries, pressure, communication, power and respectful sexual behaviour.
Pornography Workshops
Pornography, sexual content, digital consent, intimate image abuse, expectations and relationships.
Online Blackmail and Sextortion Workshop
Sextortion, blackmail, fake accounts, grooming, threats, financial demands and reporting.
AI & Deepfake Workshops
AI-generated images, sexual deepfakes, manipulation, digital consent, verification and safeguarding.
Online Safety Workshops
Online grooming, privacy, social media, scams, sextortion, digital footprints and wider online harms.
Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops FAQ
Book Sexting Workshops
Bring Sexting Workshops to your school, college, sixth form, university, SEND or SEMH setting, youth service, charity, staff team, workplace or corporate event. Tell us the audience, number of participants, location, preferred dates and the online privacy or safeguarding concerns you would most like the programme to address.
We can provide a broad Sexting & Online Privacy Workshop, age-specific pupil sessions, post-16 and university programmes, staff training or bespoke professional delivery. The programme can also be combined with Healthy Relationships Workshops, Consent Workshops, Pornography Workshops and Online Blackmail and Sextortion Workshop.
Sexting & Online Privacy Workshops – References and Current Guidance
Our Sexting Workshops draw on current education, safeguarding, online-safety and child-protection guidance:
- Department for Education – Relationships and Sex Education (Secondary) – statutory content covering online relationships, image and information sharing, online consent, sexting, youth-produced sexual imagery and nudes.
- Department for Education – Relationships Education, RSE and Health Education – revised statutory guidance for introduction from 1 September 2026.
- UK Council for Internet Safety – Sharing Nudes and Semi-Nudes – guidance on terminology, safeguarding, incident assessment, proportionate response and education.
- Department for Education – Teaching Online Safety in Schools – guidance on digital footprints, content sharing and online responsibility.
- Internet Watch Foundation – Annual Data & Insights Report 2025 – current evidence on older teenagers, self-generated imagery, sextortion and AI-related abuse.
- Ofcom – Detecting Intimate Image Abuse – 2026 online-safety measures addressing the spread of non-consensual intimate images.
- Home Office – Crime and Policing Act 2026 Circular – commencement information concerning section 99 and purported intimate image generators.
- Department for Education – Keeping Children Safe in Education – KCSIE 2025 remains operative until 31 August 2026 and KCSIE 2026 comes into force on 1 September 2026.
These sources inform an age-appropriate, non-shaming and safeguarding-focused approach. Sexting Workshops provide education and prevention; they do not replace a setting’s safeguarding procedures, police or social-care intervention, specialist victim support, legal advice or emergency response.