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Need-to-know: Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) updated for 2025

KCSIE 2025 has been published. The changes this year are minimal and mostly technical in nature.

Last reviewed on 7 July 2025
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The Department for Education (DfE) has released its 'for information' version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for the 2025/26 academic year. A final version will be published and come into force on 1 September 2025.

The majority of the changes this year are technical in nature (e.g. updating links and document titles), but there are a few more significant changes:

Additional online safety risks included

Schools should now be aware of risks related to:

  • Misinformation
  • Disinformation (including fake news)
  • Conspiracy theories

See paragraph 135 (under content).

AI, filtering and monitoring

A link to the DfE's guidance on generative AI: product safety expectations has been added. The guidance supports schools to use AI safely and to help them understand the filtering and monitoring requirements around AI (paragraph 143).

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