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Assessing AI Risks
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in school platforms, EdTech tools, and administrative workflows, assessing the risks it brings is no longer optional — it's a duty. Understanding how AI processes data, influences decisions, and interacts with students and staff is critical for ensuring legal compliance and upholding digital safeguarding standards.
Schools face a growing challenge: using AI-driven tools while staying within the boundaries of data protection regulations, data minimisation, anonymisation and pseudonymisation, and fairness principles. From algorithmic bias to automated decision-making, the risks are real — especially when systems collect, profile, or act on personal information about children. Most schools are not yet equipped to fully evaluate these risks, let alone mitigate them in a meaningful, policy-aligned way.
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Ed Safe supports schools to assess and manage AI risks through:
Risk-based reviews of AI-powered software used for learning, behaviour, or administration
Guidance on a wide range of data protection regulations across the international spectrum, such as Article 22 of the GDPR and automated decision-making in education
Templates and tools for AI-related Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
Strategic advice for aligning AI use with safeguarding, ethics, and transparency
CPD sessions for teachers, leadership and IT teams to understand AI's data implications
Our role is to make the complex understandable. With Ed Safe, you don’t just tick compliance boxes — you actively shape a school environment where new technologies are deployed responsibly, with clarity and care.
AI may be powerful, but with the right support, your school remains in control — prepared, informed, and aligned with the best standards in data protection.
Ed Safe Specialists Meeting Your Needs
Connect with a data protection specialist either locally or internationally, depending on your needs.
As a member of Ed Safe, we can discuss how you will benefit from significant tax efficiencies and gain access to a highly skilled team of professionals with deep expertise in education-sector compliance.
Choose from online or on-site services tailored to your school’s unique requirements for technical support, staff training or strategic direction, offering you flexible solutions while helping you make the most of your budget.