Generative AI tools are already in your setting — drafting newsletters, polishing reports, suggesting activity ideas. Used well they save hours; used carelessly they can put children’s personal data in places it must never go. This course gives every practitioner and manager clear rules for using AI safely, lawfully and honestly.
What you’ll learn
- Where AI already appears in early years work — and why it matters
- Children’s data and UK GDPR in an AI world: your legal duties
- The golden rules: what must never be entered into an AI tool
- Using AI well for planning, paperwork and parent communications
- Accuracy, bias and the safeguarding risks to understand
- Writing a workable AI policy for your setting
On completion learners receive an NFAQ-accredited certificate as evidence for compliance and Ofsted.
