
Web Filtering (Netsweeper)
About the Service
Our Web Filtering service (Netsweeper), provides safe, filtered and logged web access for both staff and students for your school's broadband connection. This service is an integral feature of our Broadband and Online Service Bundle.
It provides your school with the flexibility to locally manage, monitor and control access to websites. The service provides the following functionality:
- Education focused web filtering
- 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
- Meets the DfE recommendations for web filtering to protect pupils online and the standards for schools’ web filtering set by the UK Safe Internet centre.
- Illegal content (as listed on the Internet watch Foundation) remains blocked at all times and access cannot be over-ridden by school staff
What are the benefits?
- Schools are able to implement granular filtering themselves based on their own classroom or user needs, removing the need to contact Lancashire County Council Education Digital Services to request individual websites are blocked/unblocked.
- Schools do not require any filtering equipment to be installed in school with this service
- Assists schools in fulfilling their safeguarding duties through the use of monitoring and reports
What's Included?
Service Features
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Web Filtering |
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Global Filtering (All schools – default setting)
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Lancashire County Council Education Digital Services have initially assigned a default filtering set based on school type (Nursery/Primary/Secondary etc.), which should meet most schools' needs. Your school can then choose to tailor this to your individual requirements. The Netsweeper system features categories where there is an "Enforced Block" (these categories cannot be overridden by schools in the local settings). These are as follows:
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Reporting and Alerting Capabilities |
Schools can configure and schedule their own reports of internet usage. These can be exported for further analysis e.g.
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Local Control of Filtering (No filtering hardware required in school) |
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Managed Service |
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SSL Filtering |
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