The project
Who built Safe Spaces, the partner organisations, and how this Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership works.
find out moreCourse 7
· 45 minutes
· English, French, Romanian and Lithuanian
· Certificate on completion


Youth work moved online and safeguarding had to follow. This course covers the risks specific to online and hybrid activities, and how to set a session up so that risk is reduced before anyone joins: acceptable use, ground rules, a named moderator, session timing. It covers photography, video and media consent, including images generated or altered by artificial intelligence. The second half covers data protection: why safeguarding records are special category data, who may see them, how long to keep them, and what changes when data crosses a border.
Safeguarding leads, project coordinators, online facilitators, and anyone responsible for records or communications.
Identify the safeguarding risks specific to online and hybrid activities
Set up an online session so that risk is reduced before it begins
Apply media consent correctly, including for images altered or generated by artificial intelligence
Explain why safeguarding data is special category data, and what follows from that
Store, retain and share safeguarding records lawfully, including across borders
Respond to a safeguarding concern that arises online
A scenario on artificial intelligence and participant images, data-handling activities, and a final knowledge check. Seven documents are included in the course for you to download as you go.
The course opens in a focused browser player. Allow about forty-five minutes; your progress is kept only while this course page remains open.
Launch course 7You may download, adapt, translate and republish any of these materials, including in your own training. We ask only that you credit the Safe Spaces project.
Safe Spaces is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in the field of Youth, running from September 2025 to September 2027.
Who built Safe Spaces, the partner organisations, and how this Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership works.
find out moreWhat safeguarding looks like across the European youth sector, and where the gaps are.
find out moreSafe Spaces is the work of four partner organisations and a number of people who gave it their time, expertise and honest criticism.
The Safe Spaces Toolkit, the seven eLearning modules and the research underpinning both were produced by:
Renee Wolforth, independent Protection and Safeguarding Consultant, reviewed both the Toolkit and the eLearning modules.
Sian Bagshaw, Expert in Safeguarding Processes and Policy, reviewed the Toolkit and endorses it.
Four organisations across Europe built Safe Spaces together.