Cyber Project
Our Award winning project is trying to make it easier for people to learn how to stay safe and secure online. We are doing this by providing accessible guidance and a range of ways to learn and we have recruited disabled people to help us extend the reach of our work. Contact cyberproject@lead.org.uk to find out more about our project and how we could support you:
- Easy Read resources about staying safe online
- BSL (British Sign Language) clips about staying safe online
- Free, flexible self study online courses: My Lead – Homepage | Lead Scotland
- Contact cyber@lead.org.uk to participate in a tutor supported webinar.
- Want us to deliver a train the trainer session?
- Is your organisation an SQA Centre? Use our partnership resources to deliver internet safety and cyber security qualifications.
- Strategic influence to encourage more partners to embed accessibility in key messages.
WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
We regularly meet with National Cyber Security Centre staff (NCSC), translating their guidance into accessible formats such as Easy Read, BSL and community languages. We are part of the Cyber Scotland partnership and extend the reach of our work through their quarterly campaigns. The Cyber Scotland website has a a dedicated section for Third Sector organisations. Other partners who support our work are the Scottish Government, Police Scotland the Take Five campaign and disabled people’s organisations. In May 2025 our CEO spoke at the 2024 Cyber UK conference to extend the reach of our project.
Which? have kindly allowed us to share an Easy Read version of their article about how to stay safe on dating websites and apps: Easy Read Romance Scams.
- Some Highlights from 23-24
- 19 Easy Read resources versions on our website
- 15 strategic engagements with 721 attendees extending the reach
- 12 new subjects developed into webinars and online courses
- 118 new online enrolments on My.lead.org.uk
- 218 attendees at 24 webinars from 28 local authority areas.
- Six adult learners gained two SCQF Cyber qualifications each
- Over 3,000 people reached through our training sessions.
117 People from 22 local authority areas responded to our post training feedback survey:
- 97% learned something new.
- Over 50% of attendees and 92% of all 117 respondents have plans to share the information they learned with 2709 other people.
- 97% felt more confident after the training (53% a lot more confident, 44% a little more confident)
- 99% of all 117 responses would recommend our training to others.
- Working with or providing services for disabled people and carers?
Feedback Comments
- “Very clear and easy to understand trainer”
- “It was particularly useful to see how to make changes in practice using examples”
- “The tutor was great and very engaging”
The project has an Advisory Group of partners and organisations that meets four times a year to ensure we are working in a joined-up way to close any gaps in information about cyber resilience and digital accessibility, and extend our reach with training and alternative formats.
We are grateful to the Scottish Government Cyber Resilience Unit which supports this project.
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