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Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) states \u2018schools and colleges should consider carrying out an annual review of their approach to online safety\u2019. To help support schools, edtech charity, LGfL-The National Grid for Learning has developed a free, comprehensive yet easy to use Online Safety Audit, recently updated (Feb 2025) to reflect changes to the DfE Standards for filtering and monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The simple, downloadable Word document has two broad sections with questions on: Curriculum, General Approach & Communication; and Safe School Systems – technology for safeguarding and safeguarding for technology. Responses to the questions are rated red-amber-green (RAG) along with annotated evidence and actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the audit, Duvessa Brown, Deputy Headteacher and DSL at Wallington County Grammar School in South London, said, \u2018As someone who isn\u2019t IT savvy, when the IT department said, \u2018Let\u2019s do an audit\u2019, I felt a bit worried, a bit out of my depth. But actually, I understood the audit, it was super easy to do, and I wish I had done it a lot sooner. We literally downloaded the Online Safety Audit from the LGfL website \u2013 we didn\u2019t have to amend it, we just adapted it for our school. Unlike other audits we had previously used, this one covered all aspects of school life.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u2018We could clearly see what was in place and what still needed to be done. We looked at our filtering systems; student access to Wi-Fi in school and the dangers of that; and the curriculum and what each department was doing linked to e-safety. When we had the Ofsted inspection, our online safety audit basically provided a pile of evidence to say look at what we do. The inspector was very impressed by the level of detail.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Dave, Safeguarding Education Officer, LGfL, shared this advice for schools, \u2018The audit should be led by the DSL, as they have \u2018lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection (including online safety and understanding\u2026filtering and monitoring\u2026)\u2019 DfE, KCSIE (2024). We recommend you link or integrate the audit into your overall Section 175\/157 Local Authority (LA) safeguarding audit; and use the filtering and monitoring sections to fulfil your requirement (as per the DfE standards) for an annual filtering and monitoring review. This not only saves time, but above all ensures an integrated, whole-school approach. Work with colleagues across your school to complete the Audit (curriculum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

leads, IT support, cybersecurity leads, senior leaders etc) and don\u2019t forget to share the results with your school governors and\/or trustees.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information please visit: onlinesafetyaudit.lgfl.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) states \u2018schools and colleges should consider carrying out an annual review of their approach to online safety\u2019. To help support schools, edtech charity, LGfL-The National Grid for Learning has developed a free, comprehensive yet easy to use Online Safety Audit, recently updated (Feb 2025) to reflect changes to <\/p>\n

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