Tag: School Leaders

Updates - 360 Degree Safe Online Safety Self-Review Tool and Policy Templates
360 Degree Safe and our Online Safety Policy Templates have been updated. Find out what updates there are and what you need to know in this article.
21st September 2022

Molly Russell Inquest – Advice for Professionals
This article is to provide advice for professionals working with children and young people around the Inquest in relation to the death of Molly Russell
20th September 2022

UK Safer Internet Centre Reminds Schools About Correct Filtering
The UK Safer Internet Centre highlights that if your school owns mobile devices then it is essential to ensure correct filtering is in place.
9th September 2022

Test Filtering – Does Your School Internet Block Harmful Online Content?
We have created the Test Filtering tool to ensure that school internet connections are able to block out harmful online content. Find out more in this article.
19th August 2022

ProjectEVOLVE reaches milestone!
ProjectEVOLVE, our award winning digital literacy toolkit, has reached the significant milestone of 10,000 accounts.
11th August 2022

Cyber Security Audits Now Available
We are pleased to offer a new tool that can assist schools with their cyber-security duties. Discover more about our Cyber Security Audits here!
10th August 2022

Exploring Twitter Spaces
Twitter has brought out a feature called Twitter Spaces that allows users to have live conversations with an audience. Find out more in this article.
5th August 2022

Assisted Monitoring Service – Capturing What You Miss
Take a look at what benefit AMS can provide for the new school year as well as find out what some of the feedback has been from those who use it.
3rd August 2022

Primary school teachers in Northern Ireland are set to benefit from a new Barefoot partnership
Barefoot recently secured funding to provide free training workshops and resources to teachers in Northern Ireland.
23rd May 2022

Keeping Children Safe in Education – Guidance from the Department for Education
The Department for Education has recently published the updated 2022 ‘Keeping children safe in education’ statutory guidance for schools and colleges in England. Discover more about what is included, here.
23rd May 2022

Supporting Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 – Advice from SWGfL and our Helplines
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, focusing on loneliness. Here, we provide guidance and resources to support professionals or the young people in their care, throughout and beyond the week.
12th May 2022

ProjectEVOLVE launches School Account Analysis Dashboard and more new features!
ProjectEVOLVE are pleased to have launched a variety of new updates! In this article we take you through each update and how they can support new and existing users.
25th April 2022

Age Verification
The online safety bill is enforcing age verification technologies on Pornography Websites. In this article Ken Corish takes an in-depth look at this, age verification challenges, its history and the solutions that are making age verification processes, easier to enforce and manage.
22nd April 2022

Online Safety Bill Introduced to Parliament
The Online Safety Bill has been introduced to parliament to put in place online safety laws. Discover what this means for protecting users online in our article.
17th March 2022

SWGfL Provide Affordable Bitdefender Software to Schools
With so many anti-virus and security software companies all offering their products to you directly, it might be confusing to know which product is best and what the best price is. Find out how Bitdefender can protect your school at the best price.
2nd July 2021

Ransomware – How to Protect Your School
With ransomware constantly posing a threat to the education sector, we have teamed up with Phoenix and Trend Micro to bring you the latest information regarding your schools’ cyber-security.
22nd October 2020