BACK-TO-SCHOOL: IS YOUR WEB FILTERING COMPLIANT?

Recent legislation aims to ensure that all schools have the most appropriate filtering and monitoring solutions required to successfully safeguard and promote the welfare of children in your care. The KCSiE legislation from the Department for Education sheds light on the fact that as part of a digital age, we want young people to understand, learn from and utilise the internet as a key element of their education, as it is such a large part of our culture. Due to this, ‘overblocking of web content’, is no longer something that is sustainable or effective within education. Schools now need to focus on tools that enable them to block inappropriate content in real time, without relying on URL blocklists alone, while still allowing access to educational and appropriate social content. With ever increasing demands and expectations to perform against Ofsted’s framework, it is key to understand the reasons why new legislation has been brought into place. As young people are