Online safety costs

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Dear Simon de Montfort Middle School, Evesham,

I am researching the costs associated with safeguarding students in line with the Department for Education's "Keeping Children Safe In Education" guidance and the Home Office's "Prevent" legislation. I hope that you will be able to help by providing the following information:

1. Which web filtering product does the school use? (e.g. Smoothwall Secure Web Gateway, Smoothwall UTM, RM Safetynet, Lightspeed Web Filter, etc.)

2. Is your web filtering system purchased directly by the school or provided by the LEA?

3. Does your web filtering system run on a server on the school's premises, or is it hosted off-site? (In the cloud, at the LEA's data centre, etc.)

4. How much does the web filtering system cost the school and over how long a period? (e.g. £xxxx over a 3 year contract, etc. Please explicitly state whether the quoted amount is the annual cost or the total over the period.)

5. Do the costs quoted in question 4, above, include anything besides web filtering? (e.g. that cost may also include the internet connection itself, or other services, in addition to the actual filtering product.)

6. If your filtering system is hosted on the school's premises, do the costs quoted in question 4, above, include the hardware that the filtering software runs on? (When an existing filtering contract is renewed, schools can often choose not to replace the existing hardware. In that case, the answer would be "no.")

7. What speed of internet connection does the school have?

8. How many students does the school have?

9. How many staff does the school have?

10. What year did your current filtering contract begin (this helps me evaluate how the costs have changed over time for long contracts).

Thank you very much for your time.

Yours faithfully,

Electra

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Dear The De Montfort School, Evesham,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of The De Montfort School, Evesham's handling of my FOI request 'Online safety costs'.

The law requires you to respond to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act promptly and within 20 working days at the very latest. Please can you investigate why you have ignored your legal obligations and also respond to my original request for information as soon as possible.

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Yours faithfully,

Electra

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1.  Smoothwall

2. LEA

3.  Off site at LEA

4.  £12000

5.  Cost includes internet connection, and support

6.  N/A

7.  100mbps

8.  930

9.  140

10.  Annually, each March

 

 

 

Mr Stuart Wilson - ICT Network / Systems Manager
Tel: 01386 442060   
Email: [email address]
Web: www.tdms.worcs.sch.uk

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From: Electra [[FOI #433854 email]]
Sent: 25 October 2017 17:07
To: Ms E Reynolds
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Online safety
costs

Dear The De Montfort School, Evesham,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information
reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of The De Montfort School,
Evesham's handling of my FOI request 'Online safety costs'.

The law requires you to respond to requests made under the Freedom of
Information Act promptly and within 20 working days at the very latest.
Please can you investigate why you have ignored your legal obligations and
also respond to my original request for information as soon as possible.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[4]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...

Yours faithfully,

Electra

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