Online Strangers, Grooming, and Manipulation
Help learners recognize unsafe attention, secrecy, fake profiles, pressure, gifts, isolation, and requests to move into private chats.
Course overview
What does the “Online Strangers, Grooming, and Manipulation” course teach?
Help learners recognize unsafe attention, secrecy, fake profiles, pressure, gifts, isolation, and requests to move into private chats. The lessons are: Not Everyone Online Is Who They Say They Are, How Unsafe Adults Build Trust, Unsafe Secrets, What to Do When Someone Makes You Uncomfortable. Learners complete a hands-on activity before moving on. Red flag or green flag? Learners review short message examples.
Lessons in this course
What learners cover, in order.
Hands-on activity
Red flag or green flag? Learners review short message examples.
How this course fits Child Protect
This course is part of the Child Protect Academy, one of two connected parts of Child Protect. Training helps children recognize unsafe situations and know how to ask for help, which can help concerns surface earlier. When a concern is raised, the Child Protect safeguarding platform supports the school’s response. See the safeguarding lifecycle.
Availability
What is available today: the Child Protect safeguarding platform is live. The Child Protect Academy is live at edu.childprotect.co, with video lessons, guided quizzes, step-by-step progress and completion certificates. Two courses are available now after signing in, and the full set of ten courses, in English and Thai, is scheduled for launch. Schools can join the waiting list to be notified.
More in the series
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Common questions
Who is the “Online Strangers, Grooming, and Manipulation” course for?
It is for children and teens, age 7–17. Parents and caregivers have a separate course.
Does this course replace safeguarding reporting?
No. Training builds awareness. Concerns still go through the school’s safeguarding process, and in an emergency you should call 191.
Is a certificate issued?
A completion certificate is issued after the full course is completed, where enabled.
Last updated: 4 October 2026
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