National Online Safety

Name

National Online Safety

Website

https://nationalonlinesafety.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Safety Training & CPD

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Professionals (Teacher/Administrator CE, CPD) (EDAAALAE)

Keywords

• Online safety training
• Professional development
• Education sector training
• CPD platform
• Staff safeguarding training

Headquarters

HQ city

Scunthorpe

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

National Online Safety delivers online safety training and continuing professional development (CPD) resources through its platform "The National College." It provides courses and resources for teachers, parents, and children, primarily serving the education sector including schools, trusts, colleges, and nurseries. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Scunthorpe, United Kingdom.

Product overview

The National College provides Continuing Professional Development (CPD) resources for the education sector, including schools, trusts, colleges, and nurseries. The platform offers online safety training and professional development courses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The National College The National College is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) platform for schools, trusts, colleges, and nurseries that provides online safety training and professional development courses for education staff, with additional resources for teachers, parents, and children.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights2 records

Others

• Safety Net (National Online Safety's own training platform): The company's broader online safety training portal targeting teachers, parents and children — adjacent offering extending the core CPD product into community/parent training.

Direct peers

• MyConcern: UK safeguarding software and training provider serving schools and colleges — directly comparable focus on online safety and child protection training in the education sector.
• IRIS Connect: UK provider of professional development and lesson observation tools for schools and trusts — comparable customer base and professional learning focus.
• EduCare: A UK-based e-learning provider focused on safeguarding and child protection training for schools and educational organisations — directly comparable in customer base, regulatory-driven CPD use case, and delivery model.
• The Key (The Key Support): Provides compliance, CPD and governance support services to UK schools and trusts; comparable institutional customer base and CPD/compliance-driven offering.
• Optimus Education: UK provider of CPD, training and conferences for school leaders and educators — directly comparable in CPD delivery and education-sector customer focus.

Broad incumbents

• Times Educational Supplement (TES): Major UK education media brand with extensive CPD courses, training resources and content for teachers — broadly overlapping audience and category but operating at much larger scale.
• LGfL (London Grid for Learning): UK education technology network providing safeguarding, online safety and CPD resources to schools — overlapping audience and online safety theme.
• Chartered College of Teaching: Professional body for teachers offering CPD programmes, resources and recognition — overlapping mission around teacher professional development and CPD.

Emerging players

• Childnet International: UK charity producing online safety education resources for schools, teachers, parents and children — comparable audience and online safety training theme, though distributed primarily as free/charity resources.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/natonlinesafety
• Facebookfacebook.com/NationalOnlineSafety
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nationalonlinesafety

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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