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Are Online English Classes Safe for Children? A Parent's Checklist

Before your child joins a video lesson with an adult you have not met, here is what to check: teachers, the lesson room, what you can see and how to raise a concern.

Safety comes first

Your child will be on video with an adult. It is right to ask how the school keeps them safe, and a good school will be happy to tell you.

The checklist

• Teachers: are they interviewed, trained and ID-checked? Do they follow written child-safety rules?
• The lesson room: is it the school's own lesson room, or a private video app where anyone could join?
• Joining: does your child join with their own code, so no one else can enter?
• Your view: can you sit nearby, see the screen and hear the lesson?
• Personal details: the teacher should never ask for addresses, photos, social media or private contact.
• Raising a concern: is there a private way to tell the school, and who reads it?
• Your data: does the school say what it keeps and why?

At home

• Set up lessons in a shared room, not behind a closed door, especially for younger children.
• Stay within hearing distance for the first lessons.
• Tell your child they can always tell you if anything felt strange.
• Check the device: camera and microphone allowed only for the lesson website.

How Little Fluent does it

Lessons are one to one in our own lesson room in the browser; there is nothing to download, and your child joins with their own code. Every teacher has an interview with the head teacher and a demo lesson, then an orientation with our child-safety and conduct rules and a photo ID check. Parents can report a concern privately to the head teacher from the family page.