For DSLs and safeguarding leads

Sensitive topics, handled the way you would handle them.

Preview every lesson before it is assigned. Content warnings and teacher notes on the topics that need them. No free-text disclosures, no student messaging, and a Speak to a Teacher link in every module.

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A member of school staff working at a computer in a quiet office
What stays in your control

Nothing reaches a student unvetted.

Sextortion, grooming, coercion, image-sharing and scams are sensitive by nature. These are the design decisions that keep staff in control of how they are taught.

Preview before you assign

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

Content warnings and teacher notes

Sensitive topics carry a clear warning, discussion guidance, and what to do if a student makes a disclosure.

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 lesson 8.4, 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 sits on every screen 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
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 helps with the teaching, not the technology.

Keeping Children Safe in Education expects children to be taught how to keep themselves safe 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 sensitive topic 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 automated. AI never approves, publishes or 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
Questions DSLs ask

Questions safeguarding leads ask

What happens if a student makes a disclosure?
Every module carries a Speak to a Teacher link that points the student to a trusted adult at their own school, and the teacher notes tell staff what to do next. A concern reaches the right person through your procedures, not ours. Cloak does not collect or hold disclosures.
Does it replace filtering and monitoring?
No. Those are network and device controls from your IT provider. Cloak for Schools does not sit on your network and does not monitor student devices. It helps with the teaching and the evidence, not the network-control side.
Who signs off sensitive material?
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.
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Ask us the hard questions.

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

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