Online safety costs

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Dear Guru Nanak Sikh Voluntary Aided Secondary School,

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?

Thank you very much for your time.

Yours faithfully,

Electra

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Aftab Ahmed, Guru Nanak Sikh Voluntary Aided Secondary School

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The authority responded as below:

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

London Grid for Learning Filtering system - Webscreen 2.0

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

Purchased directly to LGFL

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.)

Hosted

4. How much does the web filtering system cost the school and over how long a period? (e.g. =A3xxxx over a 3 year contract, etc. Please explicitly state whether the quoted amount is the annual cost or the total over the period.)

3 year bundled deal with internet, mail filtering, antivirus and 200 MB pipe at A313K

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.)

As above also includes local firewall

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.")

Hardware cisco firewall. I have also put in our own sonicwall firewall to undertake NAT.

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

200 Mb pipe

8. How many students does the school have?

1500

9. How many staff does the school have?

150

Dear Aftab Ahmed,

Thank you for your reply.

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

Many thanks.

Yours sincerely,

Electra