Online Safeguarding

Protecting Pupils Online

We are committed to providing excellent services to schools and consider the e-safety of the young people using our services of paramount importance. We provide services to support schools in meeting their online safeguarding commitments, helping to ensure effective e-safety for young people.

Web Filtering

All our broadband connections include Web Filtering as standard. Based on Netsweeper, our service provides safe, filtered, and logged web access for both staff and students and is included in our Broadband and Online Services bundle.

• Education focused web filtering.
• Meets the DfE recommendations for web filtering to protect pupils online and the standards for schools’ web filtering set by the UK Safer Internet centre.
• Different filtering policies based on username, group membership or IP range.
• Local control to allow your school to manage which websites and categories of websites it wishes to allow or block.
• Monitoring and reporting on web access.
• Illegal content (as listed on the Internet Watch Foundation) remains blocked at all times and access cannot be over-ridden by school staff.
• Provides filtered web access to all devices in school.
• Includes access to a reporting tool, schools can configure and schedule their own reports of internet usage via a number of templates. 

Learn more about Web Filtering & Online Protection (Netsweeper) here.

OnGuard

OnGuard is our new Monitoring and Alerting service and is included in your Broadband and Online Services bundle.

It includes:

• AI-Detected, Human-Verified Digital Safety Monitoring.
• Student safeguarding by monitoring the contents of their screen and alerting school safeguarding lead when a matter of concern is identified.
• Powerful AI reduces false positives and schools can configure the categories of issues they wish to be alerted to.
• Flexibility in reporting – more reporting capability to schools, giving you the ability to fully customise your Netsweeper reports to your needs.