Children, Parental Agreement and Safeguarding

Daskerel does not currently permit a child or young person to enrol independently, purchase access independently, join a live class, or appear in a recording. Those services remain closed until the owner records approval of the child-specific privacy, age-assurance, safeguarding, payment, accessibility and operational controls.

A curriculum page that describes school-age learning does not itself mean that an unsupervised child service is open. Any controlled pilot involving a person under 18 must have an approved safeguarding lead, a documented risk assessment, an appropriate parent or guardian route, a named moderator, restricted communications and a non-recorded participation option.

Before a child-accessible service opens, Daskerel must use a proportionate age-assurance method and collect only the minimum age-band and responsible-adult information needed for the selected service. Exact date of birth or identity documents must not be collected merely because they might become useful later.

The parent or guardian must receive plain-language information about the service, price, renewal, learning activity, live-class provider, communications, recording choice, data use, retention, support and safeguarding routes before giving any required agreement.

Parental agreement is not used as a substitute for listening to the child, applying high privacy by default, respecting applicable child data rights, or completing the required data-protection impact assessment.

Child-accessible live delivery must use approved organisational accounts, waiting-room or lobby controls, named staff, attendance records, restricted chat and screen sharing, clear behaviour rules, an immediate concern-reporting route and a documented escalation process. Personal educator accounts and unapproved private messaging are prohibited.

One-to-one delivery, recording, photography, off-platform contact, file exchange and direct messaging require a specific approved operating procedure. Recording remains off unless the child-specific DPIA, safeguarding assessment, provider settings, retention, access control and participant notices have been approved.

Safeguarding or welfare concerns should be reported through support@cloudforgeacademy.co.uk and escalated immediately under the safeguarding procedure. A suspected data or security incident should also be sent to privacy@cloudforgeacademy.co.uk or security@cloudforgeacademy.co.uk as appropriate.

The owner must record the approved age bands, countries, services, safeguarding lead and deputy, recruitment and DBS assessment, staff training, DPIA, parental workflow, child-facing privacy explanation, provider settings, moderation model, incident drill, accessibility review and retention schedule before activation.

Professional safeguarding and privacy review is a launch gate. Until that evidence exists, the adult-only controlled service boundary remains in force.