KCSIE 2025: Developing a Whole School Approach to Online Safety

With Dr Glenn Y. Bezalel 

We all have a legal obligation to ensure that children are safeguarded from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material. With the ever-increasing threats of radicalisation and extremism in the age of fake news, schools have a vital role to play in developing young people’s critical thinking and character. This webinar will provide clear and practical guidance on how to counter disinformation, misinformation and harmful conspiracy theories in terms of curriculum, pastoral care, and school values.

Webinar Programme

Speaker Biography

Dr Glenn Y. Bezalel is Deputy Head (Academic) at City of London School, where he teaches Religion & Philosophy. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Commission into Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools, whose work helped effect the changes on Online Safety in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025. With a PhD from the University of Cambridge exploring conspiracy theorising among young people, he has written widely on education in both academic and professional publications. Glenn is the author of Teaching Classroom Controversies, published by Routledge, which is the essential guide for school leaders and teachers trying to navigate their way through issues of controversy in the age of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’.