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Dear St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London,

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. What is the total duration of your web filtering contract? (e.g. 1 year, 3 years, etc.)

5. What is the total amount paid by the school for the web filtering system over your whole contract period? (i.e. If you had answered question 4 as "3 years" and pay £1000 per year, the answer to this question would be £3000.)

6. Do the costs quoted in question 5, 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.)

7. If your filtering system is hosted on the school's premises, do the costs quoted in question 5 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.")

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

9. How many students does the school have?

10. How many staff does the school have?

11. 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 Morrell

Dear St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London'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: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...

Yours faithfully,

Electra

Dear St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London's handling of my FOI request 'Online safety costs'.

I am still waiting for a response to the review of your freedom of information practices which I requested several weeks ago. You are legally required to respond to this request and if I do not receive a reply I will be forced to report you to the Information Commissioner's Office, who may take legal action.

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

Yours faithfully,

Electra

Christopher Doyle, St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London

Dear Electra,

Apologies for the delay in responding to your request for information regarding online safety costs.

I will investigate this matter and get back with the information you have requested. We have an SLA with the LA for our Computing technical support and this LA technical support officer will be in the school on Monday 26th March 2018 and I hope will be able to provide me with much of the information that you have requested.

Many thanks,
Chris Doyle

Headteacher - St Barnabas & St Philip's School

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Dear St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London's handling of my FOI request 'Online safety costs'.

I am still waiting for a response to the review of your freedom of information practices which I requested several weeks ago. You are legally required to respond to this request and if I do not receive a reply I will be forced to report you to the Information Commissioner's Office, who may take legal action..

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

Yours faithfully,

Electra

Christopher Doyle, St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London

Dear Electra,

My investigation into this particular freedom of information request appears to show that that your initial request did not get processed by myself. I have asked for all subsequent requests to be sent directly to me.

I have approached the 3BM technical support team for the responses to your questions and they have provided me with the following response:

Re just the web filtering (Cloud hosted / your contact is usually every 5 years with LGfL) and basic broadband LGfL fully meets the DfE requirements for robust Cloud services to schools.

I’d just point ‘Electra’ to the publically available information because you are part of a DfE recognized regional broadband consortium which has a strong track record of providing exceptional value for money for schools:
https://www.lgfl.net/services/
https://www.lgfl.net/services/web-screen
https://www.lgfl.net/about/

In London you are most fortunate being part of the London Grid for Learning. Apart from the basic services like anti-virus, web filtering and email and email filtering, secure file exchange and ID management and (content and safeguarding advice etc etc) – there are a whole bunch of new services now available that Davide can tell you about but include Meraki mobile device management, Malwarebytes and the advanced version of Sophos anti-virus.

LGfL is looking to become (if not there already) world lead in being the most digitally safe environment for schools!

Hope this helps
Helen

Helen Warner
Business Development Director

Dear St Barnabas and St Philip's CE Primary School, London,

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.) WebScreen™ 2.0 is a highly-scalable web filtering system that targets the particular needs of the UK education sector.

2. Is your web filtering system purchased directly by the school or provided by the LEA? Provided by LGFL purchased through 3BM through the LA

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.) Offsite LGFL support

4. What is the total duration of your web filtering contract? (e.g. 1 year, 3 years, etc.) Contract period is 5 years.

5. What is the total amount paid by the school for the web filtering system over your whole contract period? (i.e. If you had answered question 4 as "3 years" and pay £1000 per year, the answer to this question would be £3000.) - LGFL annual contract is £4,387 per year

6. Do the costs quoted in question 5, 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.) the annual cost of £4,387 quoted above included the LGFL broadband connection and access to curriculum resource materials.

7. If your filtering system is hosted on the school's premises, do the costs quoted in question 5 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.") filtering system is not hosted on the school site.

8. What speed of internet connection does the school have? 40 Mbps scalable to 100Mbps

9. How many students does the school have? 210 pupils

10. How many staff does the school have? 26 full time equivalent staff members

11. What year did your current filtering contract begin? (this helps me evaluate how the costs have changed over time for long contracts). 2009

Thank you very much for your time.

Yours faithfully,

Electra Morrell

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your initial request, please feel free to contact me if you require any clarification regarding this matter.

Many thanks,

Chris Doyle
Headteacher
St Barnabas & St Philip's School
Kensington,
London
W8 6EJ

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