Online safety costs

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Dear Kirkby Sports College (CfL) School Knowsley,

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

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Dear Kirkby High School,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Kirkby High School'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

Robinson J,

Good afternoon Electra,

 

I have conducted an internal review to determine why your original request
was not actioned. We have determined that the email was not forwarded to
the correct person within our organisation. We will review our procedures
and will be putting steps in place to ensure that individuals who are
responsible for monitoring our published mailboxes receive training on how
to identify a FOI request, and who to pass them on to. Please accept my
apologies for not handling this request in a timely fashion.

 

Having considered the request under the Freedom of Information Act 2015,
we will be unable to respond to questions 1 and 5 of your request, citing
Exemption 31 (law enforcement) which states: “Information which is not
exempt information by virtue of section 30 is exempt information if its
disclosure under this Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice—

 a. the prevention or detection of crime,”

 

As stated in section 19 of the ICO’s guidance document;  Law enforcement
(section 31) Freedom of Information Act
([1]https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...
that an organisation can “withhold information that would make anyone,
including the public authority itself, more vulnerable to crime for
example, by disclosing its own security procedures, such as alarm codes.”

 

The reason that we feel this applies is that it will provide information
regarding our firewall & filtering system, and therefore our approach to
cyber-security, antivirus and ransomware incidents, potentially
jeopardising the security of the school network. This could leave it
vulnerable to cyber criminals wishing to compromise the school. The school
has a duty under Principle 7 of the Data Protection Act, which states the
organisation must take “Appropriate technical and organisation measures
against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against
accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.”
 [2]https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/gui...

 

It is in the best interests of the school, staff, students and their
parents that information held within school remains secure as well as the
integrity of the network, and the release of this information may
compromise this.

 

I have answered all other questions below.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

John Robinson | Information Systems Manager

01942 204640 | [3][email address]

The Rowan Learning Trust, Carr Lane, Wigan, WN3 5NY

 

 

 

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

No response

 

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

Purchased directly by the school

 

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.)

 

It is hosted off-site

 

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

 

3-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.)

 

No response

 

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.)

 

n/a

 

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.")

 

n/a

 

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

 

100mbps

 

9. How many students does the school have?

 

Approx. 900

 

10. How many staff does the school have?

 

Approx. 108

 

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

 

2016

 

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