Web Content Filtering

e-Safety is a vital set of tools primarily to protect children from harmful content and to empower children with the knowledge to stay safe whilst using digital technologies.  So it comes as a surprise and a disappointment to see that the Department for Education are no longer accrediting online safety content management filters. In their […]

Online Safety Content Filtering – DfE dons blindfold Read More »

Although I and many readers of this blog are from the UK, it is always interesting to keep up with what is going on overseas, particularly Europe, USA and Canada.  Invariably what happens over there tends to affect us in one way or another.   There is quite a lot of debate going on in

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This post is in response to Tom Barrett’s blog here A very well written piece about filtering, and personally I don’t think it is an issue that will ever settle down due to the wide ranging views. Personally I could not ever agree with an unfiltered school connection, not because I don’t want to, but

Unfiltered Internet Access in Schools Read More »

Esafety, online safety, child protection – internet filtering is normally the first step any establishment takes in order to meet its statutory and safeguarding obligations.  But what is internet filtering, is it esafety or is it blocking? For clarity and ease I’m just going to refer to schools in this blog, but you can substitute

Internet Filtering part 1 – esafety or just blocking? Read More »