Introducing a certification scheme for assuring EdTech and AI product safety
Overview
This consultation seeks views on DfE’s proposal to establish a product certification scheme to assure the safety of EdTech and AI used in schools and other education settings in England.
Why your views matter
Your views will help us understand how a potential certification scheme could work in practice and what impact it could have on those who develop, choose and use education technology. By responding, you can help shape an approach that provides meaningful assurance about product safety, while remaining proportionate and workable for education settings and suppliers.
Audiences
- 16-18 year old students resident at these institutions
- Academies (including free schools), voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools and community schools
- Adoptive parents
- Awarding organisations
- Bodies representing schools and local authorities
- CAMHS
- Community representatives
- Companies and organisations working in the digital industry
- Designated institutions and 16-19 academies
- Designated safeguarding leads
- Early learning and childcare providers
- Educational Psychologists
- Employers
- Experts and sector stakeholders
- Experts in child development, health and education
- Faith bodies
- Foster carers
- Further education colleges
- Governing bodies and academy trusts
- Government bodies and departments
- Governors
- Head teachers and proprietors of private schools
- Headteachers
- Independent school associations
- Independent specialist colleges
- Local authorities
- Ofsted
- Organisations which represent the views of computing teachers
- Organisations with an interest in the content of the computer science GCSE
- Parents
- Professional and academic stakeholders
- Pupils
- Research, health and education professionals
- School business managers
- School support staff
- Secondary teachers of computer science and subject leaders
- SENCOs
- Sixth form colleges
- Social workers
- Students
- Subject matter experts and sector representatives
- Teachers
- Those evaluating programmes for children in need
- Those involved in underlying theoretical research on abuse and neglect, child development etc
- Those researching children’s social care or education systems, with links to educational outcomes of Children in Need
- Training providers
- Unions and representative organisations
- Virtual school heads
- Volunteers
- Young people
Interests
- Academies
- Admissions
- Apprenticeships
- Benefits and risks of screen use
- Children’s screen use (purpose, timing, context)
- Differences by age and development
- Early learning and childcare
- Early years foundation stage
- Governance
- Health and wellbeing
- Intervention
- Keeping children safe in education and other settings
- Planning
- Procurement for schools
- Pupil data
- Safeguarding disabled children
- Statutory policies and guidance
- Teaching and learning (SEND)
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