02/09/2026
Dear Parents and Carers,
As part of our ongoing commitment to safeguarding, we wanted to update you about how we will use photographs of children online following the updated Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance and the increasing safeguarding considerations surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Technology and AI are developing very quickly, and unfortunately images available online can potentially be copied, altered or manipulated using AI, including through technology commonly referred to as deepfakes. As a nursery, we feel it is important that our safeguarding practices continue to develop alongside these emerging risks.
Our Website
We have never displayed identifiable photographs of our nursery children on our public website, and this will continue.
Our Public page
Previously, where parents have provided the appropriate photograph/social media permissions, photographs may have been shared on our public page.
Moving forward, even where permission has been provided, we will only share photographs where children cannot be identified by their faces. For example, photographs may show:
The back of a child's head
Children's hands taking part in an activity
Their creations, play or learning without their face being visible
Wider photographs where individual children cannot be identified
We will avoid publishing clear, identifiable images of children's faces on our open/public social media. We have deleted any old photos of children that we have taken in previous cohorts.
This is an additional safeguarding measure we have chosen to introduce to help protect children's privacy, digital footprint and images from potential misuse, including AI manipulation and deepfake technology.
This does not mean photographs will stop being taken within nursery. Photographs remain an important way of documenting children's experiences, learning and development, and these can still be shared securely with parents through our usual nursery systems in line with our policies and permissions.
We appreciate that these measures may feel particularly cautious; however, safeguarding practice must continue to evolve as technology changes. We believe reducing the number of identifiable images of our children available publicly online is a sensible and proportionate step.
Thank you, as always, for supporting us in keeping all of our children safe.
