Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Technology in schools is ever evolving, with online educational resources becoming used more and more every day in the classroom. Protecting children from dangers when connected to the internet and using their devices offline, whilst not restricting their learning and development, is a key priority.
Safeguarding in Education
Safeguarding and Ofsted
Online safety is a top priority within Ofsted. As of September 2016, new guidelines surrounding online safety provision in schools came into place. This guidance covers how staff are educated about risks, how children are educated about risks, how parents are kept informed of how to keep children safe online, protection methods used and what measures are in place in the event of an issue.
The Prevent Duty
This new duty outlines that as part of wider safeguarding duties it is essential for staff and childcare providers to be able to identify the risks of radicalisation and extremist behaviour and know what to do once identified. Monitoring for extremist behaviour and having the measures to intervene in place are a further addition to a school’s safeguarding remit.
Smoothwall for Education
Smoothwall are M-Tech’s safeguarding in education partner of choice. With many years’ experience in the field, Smoothwall understand that as the internet becomes more of a key learning tool and resource for children to learn academically, it can be difficult knowing which tools to choose when adhering to Government legislation and implementing appropriate web filtering and monitoring solutions in your school.
Their expert solutions are built specifically around the needs of the Education Market, which is why over 7000 UK schools have chosen Smoothwall to protect their students and provide a safe academic online environment.
Smoothwall’s powerful web filtering solution is designed to tackle the issues of acceptable web usage, productivity loss, web-borne malware, and mobile device integration.
Available as software, hardware appliance, and virtual machine.
Advanced on-device, one of a kind monitoring solution, moderated by vast AI technology and human specialists to give accurate Smart Profile reporting on safeguarding alerts and patterns of behaviour.
A managed service with monitoring via client installed on device.
Simplify your network security with Smoothwall’s all-in-one UTM protection package. Combining a market-leading web filter with perimeter firewall, application control, VPN, IPS and email security.
Available as software, hardware appliance, and virtual machine.