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Dear Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, Doncaster,

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 Morrell

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Dear Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, Doncaster,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, Doncaster'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 Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, Doncaster,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, Doncaster'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

Delta FOI,

Dear Electra

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST – FOIDM210318HWP

 

Your request for information has now been considered and the information
requested is below:

 

1.       Which web filtering product does the school use? (e.g. Smoothwall
Secure Web Gateway, Smoothwall UTM, RM Safetynet, Lightspeed Web Filter,
etc.)  S 43 (2)

 

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

 

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.)  On premises

 

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.  S 43 (2) 

 

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.)  No

 

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.")  Yes

 

7.       What speed of internet connection does the school have?  100mb

 

8.       How many students does the school have? 215

 

9.       How many staff does the school have?  34

 

10.   What year did your current filtering contract begin (this helps me
evaluate how the costs have changed over time for long contracts).  2015

 

The Trust has considered which elements of your request may be deemed to
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Yours sincerely

 

 

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From: Electra <[3][FOI #439080 email]>

Sent: 16 March 2018 17:48

To: Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School <[4][Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, Doncaster request email]>

Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Online safety
costs

 

Dear Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, Doncaster,

 

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

 

I am writing to request an internal review of Hatfield Woodhouse Primary
School, Doncaster'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:
[5]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Electra

 

 

 

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