Social Media for Schools – How to Stay Compliant, Confident & Consistent
🏷️ From £90
🎧 Audience: SLTs, business managers, members of children’s organisations, and anyone responsible for social media content, communications, or safeguarding compliance in child-focused sectors.
📍 Online
A practical session on how to use social media safely and strategically in a school setting. Your speaker will draw on 20+ years of experience working with children and young people in both the public and third sectors, and 15 years in digital marketing and video production, working with both professional services and schools.
Training topics:
- The Role of Social Media in Schools. Why it matters, what the research says about parental engagement and school identity.
- How to get it right and what can stop you. What good practice looks like day to day, and the common mistakes that are made.
- Safeguarding, Media Consent, and GDPR when creating content. What is expected, what is often overlooked, and practical steps for filming and photographing pupils and staff responsibly and legally.
- Resources and Tools to Help You. Online tools and free resources attendees can use straight away to improve their own practice.
Learning outcomes:
- A better understanding of how to manage school social media channels.
- Practical good-practice guidance for filming and photography in school.
- A free downloadable resource to support day-to-day decision making.
Speaker: Ros Harrison, Founder of Harrison Media Solutions
Ros Harrison is a social media and video content specialist who supports schools and child-focused organisations in using online communications safely. Ros has 20 years of experience working with children and young people in both the public and third sectors, including facilitating safeguarding and CEOP training for local authority youth workers and developing domestic abuse awareness programmes for staff and pupils in primary settings. With 15 years of experience as a digital marketer, specialising in GDPR and compliance, across professional services and local authorities, she now helps schools develop effective management systems and robust safeguarding practices when representing themselves on social media through her business, Harrison Media Solutions.
