What you need to know and do to strengthen your school's cyber security. Information for early years, primary and secondary schools in England.

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Also important information for schools.

These standards outline the capabilities and features that generative artificial intelligence (AI) products and systems should meet to be considered safe for users in educational settings. They are mainly intended for edtech developers and suppliers to schools and colleges. Schools and colleges may also find these standards helpful in assessing which AI products are safe for use in education.

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'Generative AI has demonstrated that it can help the education workforce by reducing some of the administrative burdens that hard-working teachers, staff and school leaders face in their day-to-day roles.

Evidence is still emerging on the benefits and risks of pupils and students using generative AI themselves. We will continue to work with the education sector to develop understanding of effective and safe use cases.'

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Statutory guidance for schools and colleges
2 September 2024

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The Department for Education (DfE) is keeping files monitoring the social media activity of some of the country’s leading educational experts, the Observer can reveal.

At least nine experts have uncovered files held on them, some as long as 60 pages. One individual even discovered the department had compiled an Excel spreadsheet in which officials had detailed who she interacted with.

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Keeping children safe in education 2023
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges

The 2023 version will come into force on 1 September
2023.

In terms of online safety and safeguarding there are changes to the guidance on filtering and monitoring. You can access further support on this here:  DfE guidance on filtering and monitoring March 2023

LGFL has clear support for DSLs including videos here