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AI in education
Move from anxious debate to a clear, ethical and workable approach to AI.
- Readiness and risk reviews
- Policy and implementation
- Leadership briefings
Preparing motion
EducateInnovateProtect
Education · Technology · Safeguarding
Clarity for a
changing world.
Helping schools and children’s professionals turn digital complexity into confident, safe and human-centred action.
Based in the South WestWorking across the UK
Trusted thinking for
01 School leaders
02 Safeguarding teams
03 Children’s services
04 Education partners
Why Orca 01
Find the signal.Move with confidence.
Technology should expand opportunity — not uncertainty.
We combine deep experience in education, safeguarding and digital culture to help organisations make decisions that stand up in the real world.
From AI strategy to online safety, we make the complex understandable, the risks manageable and the next step clear.
What we do 02
Practical expertise
Support built around your real-world challenge.
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Online safety
Build a safeguarding culture that keeps pace with children’s digital lives.
- Strategy and audit
- Policy development
- Incident response
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Training & keynotes
Give leaders, staff and governors the confidence to act with insight.
- Tailored workshops
- Conference keynotes
- Leadership development
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Curriculum & resources
Create meaningful digital and media literacy learning that lasts.
- Curriculum design
- Toolkits and frameworks
- Assessment models
How we work 03
Thoughtful by design.
Practical by nature.
Our work is collaborative, evidence-informed and shaped around your context — never a generic package lifted off the shelf.
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Listen deeply
We understand your people, pressures and ambitions.
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Make sense
We turn evidence and complexity into a shared view.
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Move forward
We leave you with a practical plan and lasting capability.
Current thinking 04
Useful thinking,
without the noise.
Invite Orca to contribute ↗AI next.
AI & leadership · 12 min read
From Hype to Coherence: A Leader’s Guide to Building an AI-Ready School
Read the article ↗AI as a Thinking Partner: Supporting Socratic Teaching
AI literacy & curriculum · 10 min read
Shaping Agency: Designing a Curriculum for the AI-Literated Student
↗About Orca 05
40+ years in educationGlobal safeguarding expertise
Safeguarding · Digital competency · Organisational improvement
Experience that turns complexity into confident action.
Ken Corish is a respected international safeguarding and digital competency specialist, and the former Deputy CEO and Online Safety Director at SWGfL (now retired).
Over a career spanning more than four decades in education, Ken has worked as a teacher and school leader and later as an award-winning School Improvement Adviser, supporting schools to embed effective, sustainable practice that improves outcomes for children and young people.
At SWGfL, Ken helped shape a wide range of nationally and internationally recognised online safety work—supporting education settings, agencies and policymakers to respond to emerging digital risks with confidence and clarity. He has played a key role in the development and impact of sector-leading resources including the award-winning 360 Degree Safe self-review tool , which supports schools in building rigorous whole-setting online safety strategy, and ProjectEVOLVE , an innovative framework and set of free resources that map the knowledge and behaviours young people need for safer, more empowered online lives. He is also progenitor of the national digital competency framework Education for a Connected World , used by thousands of UK schools to shape their curriculum.
Ken has collaborated with partners across the UK and internationally, including work with government and European stakeholders, and regularly speaks at conferences and events around the world. His work has contributed to multiple awards and wide adoption of practical tools that help leaders, safeguarding teams and educators translate safeguarding expectations into meaningful day-to-day culture and practice. Most notable projects have been the EU SELMA project and the anti-bullying project ENABLE .
Now, as Managing Director of Orca Advisory Ltd, Ken supports education organisations with strategic consultancy at the intersection of safeguarding, digital culture and organisational improvement. He also continues to provide consultancy support to SWGfL, helping sustain and extend the reach of their work, including the ongoing development and implementation of resources such as 360 Degree Safe and ProjectEVOLVE.
Our commitment
We will always leave you clearer, more capable and ready to act.Evidence-ledChild-centredPlain-speakingInternationally informed
Current workstreams 06
Framework evolution
Ideas in motion.
Work with purpose.
Exploring the frameworks, curriculum thinking and practical responses education needs for a changing digital world.
Current proposal · AI literacy & curriculum · 9 min read
AI Literacy: The Missing Ninth Strand?
Why AI literacy should become a connected, progressive strand within Education for a Connected World—linking safeguarding, critical judgement, creativity and informed digital agency.
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