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How schools can prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day.

Details

This guidance explains how to develop, implement and maintain a policy that prohibits the use of mobile phones in school. It should be read alongside the guidance on:

It is for:

multi-academy trusts

trust boards and proprietors

governing bodies

school leaders and staff

local authorities

It applies to all:

maintained schools

academies

free schools

non-maintained special schools

independent schools

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Acronyms used in-game:

AFK - Away from keyboard

GLHF - Good luck have fun

n00b / Newbie - This is slang for a somebody with little experience or a beginner in the game

RTS - Real-time strategy

GTG - Good to go

PUG - Pick-up group (used in MMORPGs) - means a group that isn't formed by people you know

OOC - Out of character - used when a character wants to break character

TLDR - Too long, didn't read

IGM - name in-game

BBIAB - Be back in a bit

Beast mode - dominating the game

dl - download

Fail - Failure

FUBAR -Fouled up beyond recognition

PK - Player Kill

MOD - modified game by changing characters, introducing custom levels etc.

IRL - In real life

IDK - I don't know

FTW - For the Win

PWN - owned / to gain ownership

IAP - in-app purchase

Gosu - someone who dominates that game (Korean term)

HF - Have fun

WOOT - used to show excitement

Types of gamers to watch out for

Campers - players who attack other players to gain an advantage

Cheaters - exploit the games bugs or errors in the code to gain an advantage in the game

Griefers - deliberately bully and harasses other players

Hackers - players who hack the game to find ways to cheat in the game

Trolls - Like Griefers these are players who incite hate in forums or in-game by targeting other people with abuse.

SMURF - This is an experienced player who pretends to be a new player to the game by creating a new account.

SCRUB - someone who does not play well or relatively new to the game (newbie)

Common acronyms and types of games

DLC - Downloadable content - additional downloadable content for a game distributed online

MMOPRG - Massive multiplayer online game - where a large number of players play together in real-time

RPG - Role-playing game (player controls an avatar in the game to play)

FTP - Free to play video games also known as free to start that have in-game purchases to access premium parts of the game

Sandbox - gives the player more freedom to roam and change the virtual world they are in (Minecraft is an example of such a game)

PvP - Player versus playe r - this is a type of gameplay in a multiplayer game

NPC - Non-player character - this is any game where you are not in control of the character (they might be controlled by the computer)

Grinding - time spent doing repetitive tasks in the game to unlock a piece of the game

Lag - when a computer game is responding slower than expected

Level up - where you move to the next stage of the game

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New filtering and monitoring standards have been introduced by the Department for Education (DfE) today. With these new standards put forward, we encourage schools and colleges to use them to review their filtering and monitoring strategies, to better protect children and young people online.

The UK Safer Internet Centre has been publishing self-certified responses from leading providers since 2016, to help schools carry out their filtering and monitoring responsibilities. These new standards reinforce aspects of both filtering and monitoring systems whilst elaborating on new aspects such as responsibility within educational settings and continued reviewal processes. Some of the areas covered include:

Safeguarding Responsibilities

Under these new standards it is clear that safeguarding teams hold more responsibility for filtering and monitoring obligations. All too often we find that technical staff assume this responsibility, but while their support is necessary, an effective strategy for online safety and safeguarding should be led by designated safeguarding leads.

Testing Efficiency Across Devices

Schools and Colleges should be regularly checking and documenting that their filtering and monitoring systems work across all devices. Professionals need to be aware that filtering and monitoring often works differently across mobile devices and as such, regular testing (at least once a year) is essential.

Documenting Robustness

Schools must also document the robustness of their systems to ensure that harmful online content is effectively being filtered out. Logging this information is an essential part of filtering and monitoring strategies. If you need support with testing, you can do this for free with testfiltering.com.

Assessment and Consideration

Informed by risk assessments, schools should also consider whether their current filtering and monitoring solutions are actually appropriate for their communities. Filtering and monitoring systems need to be chosen based on their specific relevance to the school, as opposed to their cost.

We have seen through our own 360Safe research that filtering and monitoring practices in schools have improved over the past 12 years, and as such, it is essential to maintain these standards. The UK Safer Internet Centre provides more information on filtering and monitoring, along with self-certified responses from leading providers. To view the new standards from the Department for Education as well as the UKSIC filtering definitions and David Wright's own response to the new standards in TES magazine, please follow the links below.
Filtering and Monitoring Standards
UKSIC Filtering Definitions

David Wright - TES Article

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The importance of meeting the standard

Schools and colleges should provide a safe environment to learn and work, including when online. Filtering and monitoring are both important parts of safeguarding pupils and staff from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material.

Clear roles, responsibilities and strategies are vital for delivering and maintaining effective filtering and monitoring systems. It's important that the right people are working together and using their professional expertise to make informed decisions.

How to meet the standard

Governing bodies and proprietors have overall strategic responsibility for filtering and monitoring and need assurance that the standards are being met.

To do this, they should identify and assign:

a member of the senior leadership team and a governor, to be responsible for ensuring these standards are met

the roles and responsibilities of staff and third parties, for example, external service providers

We are aware that there may not be full-time staff for each of these roles and responsibility may lie as part of a wider role within the school, college, or trust. However, it must be clear who is responsible and it must be possible to make prompt changes to your provision.

Technical requirements to meet the standard

The senior leadership team are responsible for:

procuring filtering and monitoring systems

documenting decisions on what is blocked or allowed and why

reviewing the effectiveness of your provision

overseeing reports

They are also responsible for making sure that all staff:

understand their role

are appropriately trained

follow policies, processes and procedures

act on reports and concerns

Senior leaders should work closely with governors or proprietors, the designated safeguarding lead ( DSL) and IT service providers in all aspects of filtering and monitoring. Your IT service provider may be a staff technician or an external service provider.

Day to day management of filtering and monitoring systems requires the specialist knowledge of both safeguarding and IT staff to be effective. The DSL should work closely together with IT service providers to meet the needs of your setting. You may need to ask filtering or monitoring providers for system specific training and support.

The DSL should take lead responsibility for safeguarding and online safety, which could include overseeing and acting on:

The IT service provider should have technical responsibility for:

The IT service provider should work with the senior leadership team and DSL to:

procure systems

identify risk

carry out reviews

carry out checks

When to meet the standard

You should already be meeting this standard.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the main points to take away from these sessions?

1. Assign roles and responsibilities

2. Conduct a review of your filtering and monitoring provision

3. Check that your filtering and monitoring systems are working as you expect

4. Keep a record of your review and checks

Do we need a filtering system in place if we already have a monitoring system?

In short, yes. Both the Prevent duty and Keeping Children Safe in Education includes this expectation. KCSiE includes that schools and colleges should "ensure their school or college has appropriate filtering and monitoring systems in place and regularly review their effectiveness."

Does this relate to school owned devices outside of school for both staff and students?

For all school owned devices, we would suggest that filtering and monitoring applies both inside and outside school and for all users (staff and children). Users should be accordingly clearly notified

Will a whitelisting only approach meet the standards?

As far back as 2010, Ofsted concluded that "Pupils in the schools that had 'managed' systems had better knowledge and understanding of how to stay safe than those in schools with 'locked down' systems. Pupils were more vulnerable overall when schools used locked down systems because they were not given enough opportunities to learn how to assess and manage risk for themselves". This said, there could be specific instances that may warrant a 'wall garden' approach (ie only able to access specific websites), for example an identified risk to a particularly vulnerable individual.

Our filtering system is very technical and is only understood by our IT staff. What should we be asking of our provider?

If you are not able to understand the reports generated by your filtering (or monitoring) system, you should

Have the provider explain the reports

Explore training opportunities

Amend the reports so you can understand them

Do the filtering and monitoring requirements apply to children and young people in settings other than schools as part of their e-safety responsibilities?

Keeping Children Safe in Education details the organisations in England who must have regard to the statutory guidance. For other organisations (in England) who work with children and provide technology and online access, we would encourage the same standards to be adopted

Should a monitoring system monitor what is being looked at on the internet only or should it be able to monitor 'keystrokes' in any application?

Typically technology based monitoring systems (for example those listed Monitoring providers responses - UK Safer Internet Centre) monitor devices including keystroke as well as what is displayed on screens. If unsure, it is best to ask your provider the extent to which your system monitors devices. It is also important to know which type of device (windows, ios, android etc) the monitoring system operates on and if any particular installation requirements.

What is your advice regarding student's personal phones that have internet access. how can we monitor this when they are not connected to the school networks?

Managing personal devices starts with the school policy. Please see SWGfL's published article that supports schools and colleges in Managing a BYOD policy | SWGfL.

How can a school system manage VPN content?

VPN (Virtual Private Networks) are a technology that has been developed to protect the privacy of users. This can circumvent filtering systems. SWGfL published Everything You Need to Know About VPNs | SWGfL that explains more.

In 2018, UK Safer Internet Centre included aspects related to circumvention in the definitions of 'appropriate filtering'; the extent and ability of filtering systems 'to identify and manage technologies and techniques used to circumvent the system, specifically VPN, proxy services and DNS over HTTPS.' Providers were invited to detail how their system manages this within their Provider Responses - UK Safer Internet Centre

If monitoring isn't possible on Apple devices unless you're using a specialist browser and doesn't monitor other apps. I'm told this applies to all monitoring solutions. What should we do in this instance?

Mobile devices operate differently to laptops/computers and correspondingly Filtering and Monitoring systems, typically operate differently too. It goes without saying that filtering or monitoring systems incorrectly configured (or incapable) of filtering or monitoring mobile devices, will be ineffective. In March 2023 UKSIC calls on mobile manufacturers to do more to help schools with filtering and monitoring devices - UK Safer Internet Centre.

It is imperative that filtering and monitoring provision is reviewed, with system checks conducted and documented (Standard 2), to satisfy yourself that your filtering and monitoring systems are operating as you expect.
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These questions are for Governors, proprietors and trustees to seek assurance that filtering and monitoring standards are being met. Download the resource below to get the full information.

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