Test Your Internet Filter
Schools 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”.
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.”
This utility will test the filtering lists in place. Safeguard against harmful online content with Test Filtering.
Test Filtering Plus
Test Filtering+ can be used as an extension to the Test Filtering tool, ensuring filtering systems are effectively blocking harmful online content while saving you time.
The extension provides automated testing, reports, and alerts of device-specific issues and ensures a proactive approach to safeguarding.
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