‘Sexting’ in schools: advice and support around self-generated images

This advice is in two sections:

• Part 1 Offers practical advice about what to do if sexting happens in your school, highlights the steps that you need to take and offers examples of best practice through case studies.
• Part 2 Gives an overview of the problem and offers an insight into the research and categorisation of sexting incidents. It highlights some activities that schools can do to highlight the issues and develop a ‘whole school’ approach.

Ideally this advice should be read together but it has been designed and developed to enable schools to act swiftly in the case of an incident (Part 1) and to be able to access background information and support (Part 2).

This advice supports all schools regardless of their status (Free school, Academy, Independent or Maintained school) in developing their approach to handling and preventing incidents of sexting. It should help you to develop preventative approaches and offers advice about handling incidents when they arise. It has been written in conjunction with schools, local authorities, teacher unions, the police and child protection charities. The advice is grounded in practi