For DSLs and safeguarding leads

What stays in your control

Nothing reaches a student unvetted.

Even a lesson on scams or hacked accounts can bring up something real. These are the design decisions that keep staff in control of what students see and where a concern goes.

Preview before you assign

Staff can open every lesson and activity before a student sees it.

The riskiest topics, left to RSE

No lessons on sextortion, nudes, grooming, pornography or self-harm. Those belong with a teacher in the room, and we point you to specialist resources for them.

No free-text disclosures

Activities use scenarios and characters. There are no boxes asking students to describe their own or anyone else’s experiences.

No student-to-student messaging

Students cannot message anyone through the platform. There is nothing for you to moderate.

Speak to a teacher, in every module

An accessible link that points a student to a trusted adult at their own school, so a concern follows your procedures.

Adapt, delay or switch off topics

Change the sequence, hold a topic back, or turn it off for a class, a cohort or an individual student who may be more affected.

The teacher preview of a lesson before it is set: the content warning at the top, the lesson plan with objectives and discussion prompts, and the student view alongside

Before a class sees it

What you see first

Every lesson opens for staff with its objectives, discussion prompts, teacher notes and, where it applies, the content warning. Assigning is the last step, not the first.

A Year 8 student’s view of the scams lesson, mid-question: a suspicious text message shown on a phone, two fixed choices, and the Speak to a teacher link in the header

What a student sees

A scenario, not a spotlight

Students work through characters and situations, never their own history. The “Speak to a teacher” link is in every module and routes to a member of staff you choose at your school, not to us.

The page a student sees after tapping Speak to a teacher: a short reassurance, then a card naming Ms Okafor, Designated Safeguarding Lead, with where to find them, and a note that the page sends nothing to the school or to Cloak for Schools

Where the link goes

A named adult at your school

Tap the link and a student sees who to talk to, their role and where to find them, with a plain reminder that they will not be in trouble for asking. The page records nothing and sends nothing to us. It points them at a real person.

The school admin’s Speak to a Teacher settings: name, role and how-to-find-them fields filled in, a Save contact button, and a preview of the card students will see

Your decision

You decide who that is

Your school admin names the contact once: the DSL, a head of year, whoever you want a worried student to find first. Every student screen picks it up. Until it is set, students see general guidance to talk to a teacher or another adult they trust at school.

Clear about the line

Cloak for Schools helps with the teaching, not the technology.

Keeping Children Safe in Education expects children to be taught how to keep themselves and others safe, including online. That is what Cloak for Schools is built for. It is worth being precise about what it is not.

What Cloak for Schools does

Interactive online-safety lessons mapped to RSHE and Computing.
A record of what was taught and who completed it, by class and student.
Sign-off from a practising DSL on every lesson before it goes live.
Routes any concern to a trusted adult at the student’s own school.

What it is not

Not a filtering or monitoring system. It does not sit on your network or watch student devices.
Not a replacement for your safeguarding procedures, which stay yours.
Not a channel for disclosures. It never asks a student to describe their own experience.
Not signed off by AI. A person approves every lesson, and AI never touches student data.

How content is reviewed, check by check →

We also asked children aged 8-17 if they had come across anything online that they had found ‘worrying or nasty’, which they didn’t like, in the past month. Close to two in ten (17%) children said they had.

Ofcom · Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report, May 2026 Read the report

FAQs

Questions safeguarding leads ask

What happens if a student makes a disclosure?

There are no free-text boxes and no messaging, so a student has nowhere to type a disclosure, and Cloak for Schools never collects or holds a disclosure. Instead, every module carries a “Speak to a teacher” link that points the student to a trusted adult at their own school, and a disclosure in class follows your school’s own safeguarding procedures. A concern reaches the right person through your procedures, not ours.

What do you store about students?

Only what lessons and progress need: a name or a pseudonymous ID (your choice), their classes, their log-in, and their completion and fixed-choice answers. On a lesson with a content warning, only completion and objective-level status are kept, and individual answers are never stored. There are no free-text answers and no special-category data. Read the full data model.

Who signs off the content?

Every activity passes five reviews before publication: cyber accuracy, safeguarding and age-appropriateness by a practising DSL, curriculum fit by a secondary PSHE lead, accessibility by a SEND reviewer, and a teen panel. See who reviews what.

Can we hold a topic back for a particular class, or for one student?

Yes, both. Schools can adapt, delay or turn off particular topics for a class or cohort, so the sequence suits your students. You can also hold a topic or lesson back from an individual student who may be more affected by a subject, without changing it for the rest of the class.

All questions, including data protection and pricing →

Ask us the hard questions.

Tell us about your school and we will walk you through how a lesson is built, reviewed and assigned, with the teacher notes in front of you.

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