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Schools in England and Wales have statutory obligations to keep children safe from particular types of content, TestFiltering.com helps your verify your filters are working effectively

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Test FIltering LogoSchools in England and Wales are required “to ensure children are safe from terrorist and extremist material when accessing the internet in school, including by establishing appropriate levels of filtering”. See DfE Statutory Guidance for more information.

TestFiltering.com has been designed to help you verify that the internet filtering solution you have in place at your school is configured to correctly block many forms of harmful content, such as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), terrorist content, adult material, and offensive language. Simply run the test from the location where you filtering is in place, and the tool will inform you of whether the filtering is working effectively.

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Ensure illegal and inappropriate content is blocked

Illegal Content

Tests whether access to child abuse material and terrorism content is blocked

Inappropriate Content

Verify access to pornography and other inappropriate content is blocked

Track Your Filter Results Over Time

See your previous filter test results and track effectiveness

Automate with Test Filtering+

Automatically monitor multiple devices, get notified of failures, and audit your provision

Introducing Test Filtering+

Statutory guidance requires that you regularly check that your filtering system is working effectively, for schools and MAT's who have a large estate and mature approach, Test Filtering+ enables you to perform automated and regular checks on a range of devices, and monitor your filtering system compliance over time.

The extension provides automated testing, reports, and alerts of device-specific issues and ensures a proactive approach to safeguarding. 

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DfE Statutory Guidance

Furthermore, the Department for Education’s statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ obliges schools and colleges in England to:

ensure appropriate filters and appropriate monitoring systems are in place and regularly review their effectiveness

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

However, schools will need to

be careful that “over blocking” does not lead to unreasonable restrictions as to what children can be taught with regards to online teaching and safeguarding.

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