Our Online Safety Monitoring services help schools to meet appropriate filtering and monitoring guidance by providing you with an “Active/Proactive” technology monitoring platform – the highest level of monitoring as suggested by the UK Safer Internet Centre.
Department for Education guidance “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, revised in September 2023, states:
“Whilst it is essential that governing bodies and proprietors ensure that appropriate filtering and monitoring systems are in place, they should be careful that “over blocking” does not lead to unreasonable restrictions as to what children can be taught regarding online teaching and safeguarding.”
How does it work?
Our Online Safety Monitoring services are based upon monitoring software tools. Windows, Chromebook, iPad and Mac devices in your school are monitored and all potentially harmful digital content, activity or behaviour is captured. Alerts and reports are sent to your designated safeguarding lead. The services are based on software from Securus (standard) and Smoothwall (plus) and include access to a range of training material including documentation and webinars.
Standard or Plus?
We offer two levels of service: Monitoring Standard (IT30) and Monitoring Plus (IT31). With the Monitoring Plus system a highly trained team monitors your school alerts and notifies your Safeguarding Team of any risks.
| Feature | Standard | Plus |
| Cloud-Based Easy to install with remote upgrades | ✔ | ✔ |
| Auto Pre-Grading Reduces false positives and improves administrative collaboration to minimise oversight | ✔ | ✔ |
| Real-Time Monitoring Keystrokes and on-screen contents are auto-moderated and pre-graded in real-time allowing you to promptly identify and deal with issues of concern as they occur | ✔ | ✔ |
| Self-Service Alerting Manage your alerts in-house with the easy-to-use interface | ✔ | ✔ |
| Managed Service Alerting A highly trained team monitors your alerts and notifies you of risks appropriate to their grade | ✘ | ✔ |
“IT30 provides me, as the DSL, complete piece of mind. It provides me with the security of knowing that all online activity is being monitored on a continual basis – wherever school devices are being used. The efficient service alerts us as soon as a high-level breach occurs so we, as a school, can act upon it almost immediately.
For lower-level breaches we can analyse the logs on an easy-to-use portal. Being such a comprehensive service saves me, as a DSL, a huge amount of time but offers the reassurance that we have robust online monitoring to keep our children safe online.”
DSL, Seaford Primary School, April 2022
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Our Consultants provide a high level of infrastructure, network and server support and are on site to engage with the School Senior Leadership Team on planning and developing technical solutions that are tailored to meet your current and future needs.
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