School Governors play a vital role in ensuring the online safety of children. As part of their broader responsibilities for safeguarding, school Governors play a vital role in protecting children online.
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How do you know that your school filter is working correctly?
All schools are required to protect pupils from online content through the use of an appropriate filter. Your school almost certainly does have a filtering system in place and it is probably ‘appropriate’. (You can check that your filtering system meets the UK Safer Internet Centre’s requirements here.) But how do you know that your school filter is working correctly?
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Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 has some fundamental changes. Our friends at DigiSafe have produced a short video that summarises the changes for September 2022 and how you might tackle them…then head to gov.uk to download the document for yourself.
Protected DNS – How to make your school safer
Protected DNS is a new free service for our broadband customers that provides additional security and protection.
What is a DNS?
DNS or Domain Name Server is, at its most basic, the telephone directory of the Internet. Just as the contacts app on your smartphone matches names with telephone numbers, a DNS matches the name of a website with its IP address. An IP Address is the numerical way that the Internet identifies computing devices. For example, internet4schools.uk is the human name of this website. Its IP Address is 85.12.65.54. When you type it into your web browser, the DNS ‘looks up’ the IP address for the website and sends your request to that address.
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Do you want to improve your teaching of Computing?
Would you like to undertake quality CPD from a nationally recognised provider?
The National Centre for Computer Education (NCCE) offers a range of CPD, designed to help you teach computing. Courses cover key stages 1 to 4 and cater for all levels of knowledge.