Training
Training on the rules: free, or built for your school
Two free things and one paid one. The free INSET pack and the free online course teach any member of staff which rules apply to AI in a school and who in the building holds each one. The paid course teaches a school's own staff their own rules, by name, with a record at the end.
Free
INSET pack: AI and the rules in our school
A 45 to 60 minute staff session, ready to run: slides, facilitator notes, three ten-minute inserts for exams, data protection and safeguarding, and an attendance log. No sign-up. It uses your school's own policy from the policy builder where there is one.
Free
AI and the rules: who holds what
The same ground as the pack, as a 30-minute online course for anyone who missed the session: four short lessons, a ten-question check, and a certificate of completion. Free. You register with your name and email so the certificate can carry your name.
From £249
The staff course: AI and your part in the rules
Six short modules and a check at the end. Staff work through it online in their own time, and each one comes away knowing what they may put into an AI tool, what they must not, which tools your school has approved, and who to tell when something goes wrong.
The staff course
AI and your part in the rules
- Why the school has rules. What these tools are, what they get wrong, and who is asking schools to govern them.
- Your school's rules. The one-page version of your policy: the part every member of staff can keep in their head.
- What never goes into a tool. Names, images, safeguarding, SEND, medical, attendance and assessment information, with real examples of how it slips in.
- Your approved tools, and asking for a new one. The tools on your register, by name, what each is approved for, and who to ask before trying anything else.
- Harm, and who to tell. Fake images, companion chatbots and AI-assisted bullying are safeguarding matters. They go to your DSL, named in the course, the same day.
- Assessed work. Included for exam centres: what JCQ expects, why detectors are never proof, and what to do when you suspect AI.
The first ten schools use it free for a year, in return for honest feedback.
How it fits with the free DfE-funded materials
The Using AI in education settings materials, funded by the DfE and written by the Chartered College of Teaching with Chiltern Learning Trust, teach staff to use AI well, and they are the same for every school. Use them. The free pack and course here cover the rules and who holds them. The staff course does a third job: it teaches staff the rules your school has set, the tools you have approved and the people they report to, and gives your DPO and DSL the record. The three sit well side by side.
Talks and briefings
Talks and briefings
Short sessions for the people who hold the pens: governing boards, senior leaders, DPOs and DSLs, exams officers. Also talks for trust, local authority and sector events. Online by default, in person where it makes sense.
- A governor briefing on what to ask each term
- A leadership session on the ten decisions
- A talk for your trust or event
Get in touch
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The facts behind this page
Every claim above is numbered to one of these records. Each gives the source’s own words where it can, the paragraph or section, and the date it was last read.
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The DfE's "Using AI in education settings" materials are four modules and a leaders' pack, developed by the Chiltern Learning Trust and the Chartered College of Teaching, first published 10 June 2025 and updated 19 May 2026. They are free, ungated, under the Open Government Licence, and the DfE says they can also be adapted.
“can also be adapted”
Using AI in education settings: support materials, collection page. Dated 19 May 2026. Read 28 September 2026.