Schools and family services
Support families with practical digital resilience without turning the programme into another classroom course or generic online safety leaflet.
Help 5–10 households build a safer digital home in four weeks.
A small, controlled household digital resilience pilot for schools, councils, housing providers, family services, charities and community organisations. Establish a baseline, help each household choose three practical Digital Seeds, reassess after four weeks, and turn the results into useful programme evidence.
The first conversation is for fit and scope only. It does not commit your organisation to procurement or delivery.
The pilot at a glance
One clear starting offer.
The first Cyber Seeds institutional pilot is deliberately small: enough households to test the intervention properly, while keeping delivery, governance and evaluation controlled.
5–10 households
One controlled cohort
4 weeks
Baseline to reassessment
3 Digital Seeds
Chosen by each household
£2,500
Fixed standard pilot fee
The standard £2,500 fee covers one organisation and up to ten participating households. Any substantially different delivery, research or governance requirements are scoped separately before agreement.
Who this is for
For organisations already supporting households that want to move from digital-safety awareness to practical action.
Cyber Seeds provides a household-level intervention that can sit alongside digital inclusion, family support, safeguarding, cybersecurity, scam prevention, tenant support or community resilience work.
Councils and community programmes
Explore household digital resilience across residents or community groups through a small intervention with defined measures and boundaries.
Housing and support organisations
Introduce practical household cyber, privacy, scam and connected- home resilience into services that already work directly with households.
Why a household pilot?
Families live inside digital systems, but support is often divided into separate problems.
A household may simultaneously be dealing with weak account security, an ageing router, poorly configured devices, scam exposure, privacy concerns and difficult online boundaries. Cyber Seeds looks at those issues together through the lens of Domestic Cyber Ecology.
Understand
Establish a structured baseline across the household's digital environment.
Prioritise
Avoid overwhelming families with dozens of recommendations. Choose three realistic changes.
Act and reassess
Give households time to implement the changes, then return and examine what moved.
Five-Lens assessment
The pilot examines the whole digital household.
The Cyber Seeds Household Snapshot establishes the starting position across five connected areas of domestic digital life.
Home Wi-Fi & Networks
The connectivity, router and network foundations supporting the household.
Devices
Updates, access controls, device care and everyday security practices.
Privacy & Accounts
Passwords, authentication, permissions and account resilience.
Scams & Online Threats
Household routines for recognising, questioning and responding to suspicious activity.
Children's Digital Wellbeing
Family communication, online boundaries and healthier digital habits where relevant to the household.
The four-week journey
Baseline → Three Seeds → Action → Reassessment → Evidence.
Families are not expected to fix every digital issue in four weeks. The pilot deliberately concentrates effort on three practical changes that can realistically be implemented.
1
Scope
Agree the participating cohort, eligibility, boundaries, information handling, safeguarding pathway and intended outcomes with the organisation.
2
Baseline
Each household completes the Cyber Seeds Household Snapshot to establish its starting position across the five lenses.
3
Choose three Seeds
Each household identifies three practical improvements to focus on during the four-week intervention.
4
Plant the Seeds
Households put the selected actions into practice using Cyber Seeds guidance and proportionate pilot support.
5
Reassess and report
Households return at the end of the four weeks. The follow-up position is compared with baseline and aggregate findings are prepared for the organisation.
Three Digital Seeds
Small enough to complete. Important enough to matter.
Instead of handing households a long list of problems, Cyber Seeds helps each participant concentrate on three practical improvements. The exact Seeds depend on the household's baseline and priorities.
Security Seed
For example: enable two-step verification, improve a password, update a router setting or strengthen device access controls.
Resilience Seed
For example: establish backups, enable automatic updates or create a household routine for checking suspicious messages.
Family Seed
For example: review app permissions, introduce a healthier device boundary or create a regular family conversation about online life.
These are examples rather than fixed categories. The purpose is to make improvement achievable rather than overwhelm participants.
What the organisation receives
A complete small-cohort intervention, not simply access to a questionnaire.
Pilot setup
A defined cohort, delivery pathway, intended outcomes, roles, boundaries and review points before household participation begins.
Baseline pathway
A structured starting assessment using the Cyber Seeds Household Snapshot and Five-Lens model.
Three-Seed intervention
A practical improvement pathway that turns baseline findings into a small number of household actions.
Household resources
Relevant Cyber Seeds guidance supporting participants as they put their selected Digital Seeds into practice.
Four-week reassessment
A follow-up Household Snapshot provides a second reference point for examining change.
Aggregate evidence report
A programme-level report covering participation, intervention patterns, completion, measurable movement where supported, limitations and lessons for the next phase.
What the pilot measures
Evidence that helps answer whether the intervention should continue.
A four-week founding pilot is not designed to claim permanent behavioural change. It is designed to test whether the Cyber Seeds pathway can be understood, completed, repeated and meaningfully evaluated.
Participation
How many households begin, complete the baseline, choose Seeds and return for reassessment.
Intervention completion
Which Seeds households select and how many of the chosen actions are put into practice.
Snapshot movement
Changes between the household's baseline and follow-up position, including movement across the five lenses where supported.
Barriers
Practical reasons households could not complete particular actions or needed additional support.
Participant experience
Whether families found the process understandable, proportionate and useful.
Next-phase evidence
What should be retained, changed or tested before considering a larger cohort.
End-of-pilot evidence
The organisation receives a decision-quality pilot report.
The report is designed to show what happened without exaggerating what a small four-week cohort can prove.
Cohort overview
Participation and completion across the agreed pilot population.
Priority patterns
Which household digital resilience issues and Digital Seeds appeared most frequently.
Measured movement
Baseline-to-follow-up change where the available evidence supports comparison.
Delivery learning
Friction, support needs, implementation barriers and observations relevant to future delivery.
Limitations
Clear explanation of what cannot reasonably be concluded from a small, short-duration founding pilot.
Next-step recommendation
A practical account of what could be tested next if the organisation wishes to continue exploring the model.
Pilot cost
£2,500 for the complete standard pilot.
One organisation. Five to ten participating households. Four weeks of intervention. Three Digital Seeds per household. Baseline and follow-up measurement. Aggregate analysis and an end-of-pilot report.
£2,500
Total standard pilot fee
5–10
Participating households
4 weeks
Delivery window
No per-household fee
Within the agreed cohort
The £2,500 price applies to the standard Cyber Seeds pilot described on this page. Larger cohorts, extended follow-up, additional practitioner delivery, bespoke research, travel or substantially different organisational requirements can be scoped separately before any commitment is made.
Privacy, safeguarding & boundaries
Controlled delivery is part of the intervention.
Real household participation begins only after the relevant participant pathway, information handling, safeguarding arrangements, organisational responsibilities and practitioner boundaries have been agreed.
Data minimisation
The pilot should collect and share only the information needed to operate and evaluate the agreed programme.
Aggregate reporting
Organisational reporting is programme-focused wherever possible rather than turning individual households into identifiable case files.
Defined boundaries
Cyber Seeds is a digital resilience intervention. It does not replace statutory safeguarding, emergency, clinical or specialist professional services.
A useful pilot does not manufacture impressive numbers. It creates enough trustworthy evidence to decide what should happen next.
Why only 5–10 households?
Evidence before scale.
Cyber Seeds is intentionally starting with a controlled cohort rather than trying to make an early intervention look larger than it is. The first pilot is an opportunity to test the full operating pathway, identify friction and improve the methodology before larger deployment.
1
Test the method
Can households understand the Five-Lens model and their baseline?
2
Test the intervention
Can families realistically implement three selected Digital Seeds?
3
Test the return
Will households come back and complete reassessment after four weeks?
4
Test the evidence
Can Cyber Seeds produce useful, proportionate programme findings?
5
Then decide whether to scale
Use what was learned to determine whether a larger programme is justified and what it should look like.
Could 5–10 households your organisation already supports take part?
Tell Cyber Seeds who you support, the problem you are trying to address and your approximate timeframe. The first conversation is used to determine fit, identify any delivery requirements and establish whether the four-week pilot is appropriate.
Standard pilot: £2,500 · 5–10 households · 4 weeks.