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E-Safety - Quic Browser Option

We are seeing an increase in E-Safety concerns where pupils and staff are able to access content that they shouldn't. The root cause of many cases is the use of QUIC in the browser. QUIC uses UDP port 80 and 443, these can be blocked at the firewall level if requested but other programs do also use these. Please be sure to block QUIC for all ... Read More


24th Jan 2022

New Educational Features have been added to the Schools Broadband Filtering Service

As part of a new partnership with the National Crime Agency, we are excited to share with you the launch of our newly developed educational filtering block page service.     Now, when search terms contain keywords relating to cyber crime, a new block page will appear that informs the user of the ... Read More


18th Jan 2022
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