Filtering at Foreland Fields School
Keeping Children Safe in Education obliges schools and colleges in England to “ensure appropriate filters and appropriate monitoring systems are in place” and they “should be doing all that they reasonably can to limit children’s exposure to the above risks from the school’s or college’s IT system”
At Foreland Fields School will do all we reasonably can to limit children’s exposure to online harms through school provided devices, systems, platforms and networks. In line with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and KCSIE, we will ensure that appropriate filtering and monitoring systems are in place.
This includes ensuring application of appropriate filtering and monitoring to both static content, as well as dynamic and AI-generated materials, products and/or systems used.
Foreland Fields School’s education broadband connectivity is provided through Medway Grid for Learning – Netsweeper. It:
- is a member of Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
- has signed up to Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit list (CTIRU).
- is blocking access to illegal content including child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
- blocks access to sites which could promote or include harmful and/or inappropriate behaviour or material. This includes content which promotes discrimination or extremism, drugs/substance misuse, malware/hacking, gambling, piracy and copyright theft, pro-self-harm, eating disorder and/or suicide content, pornographic content and violent material.
- Netsweeper blocks school provided internet access to illegal content and activity as identified in the Online Safety Act, including:
- Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
- Controlling or coercive behaviour
- Extreme sexual violence
- Extreme pornography
- Fraud
- Racially or religiously aggravated public order offences
- Inciting violence
- Illegal immigration and people smuggling
- Promoting or facilitating suicide
- Intimate image abuse
- Selling illegal drugs or weapons
- Sexual exploitation
- Terrorism
- Netsweeper is a member of Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and uses IWF services to block access to CSAM.
- Netsweeper has signed up to Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit list (CTIRU)
- Netsweeper blocks school provided internet access to sites which could promote or include harmful and/or inappropriate behaviour or material. This includes content or activity which promotes hate speech or discrimination, gambling, harmful bullying content, malware/hacking, mis-disinformation, privacy and copyright theft, pornography, self-harm and eating disorders and/or violence against women and girls.