KCSIE and Prevent Duty Compliant Web Filtering Powered by Netsweeper
Our school web‑filtering service ensures that students and staff stay safe online. Powered by industry‑leading technology from Netsweeper, our filtering solution fully complies with KCSIE, Prevent Duty, Internet Watch Foundation guidance, and all relevant national standards.
Oakford IS has developed comprehensive, pre‑defined filtering policies over many years. These policies provide an excellent foundation for any School or Multi‑Academy Trust, allowing you to deploy a fully functioning system immediately and tailor it to your needs both during and after implementation.
Netsweeper is a global leader in educational web filtering, protecting millions of students worldwide—including one in three UK pupils.
Because Netsweeper’s platform is flexible and not restricted by hardware appliances, it adapts easily to your current requirements and scales with your future needs.
Netsweeper is one of the world’s largest school broadband filtering providers, delivering safe, filtered internet access to more than 1 billion users globally—including over 7,000 schools across the UK.
Its market‑leading filtering and safeguarding technologies work together to protect children online while helping schools and educators remain fully compliant in today’s digital landscape.
Dynamic categorisation of web content with billions of URLs categorised. Rapid categorisation of new content and configurable filtering policies.
Netsweeper captures data on all web usage and filtering activity, offering a comprehensive array of reports to meet your needs. You can understand what is being accessed (and by whom) so you can troubleshoot problems and adjust policies. You can see what’s being blocked, see when teachers apply overrides, and evaluate popular sites or content, giving you the power to oversee your school’s complete internet usage network.
Netsweeper is one of the leaders in web filtering for education, protecting millions of school children around the world, including 1 in 3 UK pupils. Because Netsweeper offers a flexible solution that is not tied to hardware appliances, you can meet your filtering needs in both present day and in the future.
Scans and filters content from billions of websites, adds this data to our CNS database for categorization, then allows or denies URLs in real time, at scale.
Delivers speed and reliability for high-demand networks without slowing traffic or performance; able to support web filtering on multiple 100G links.
Filters content alongside network traffic without affecting delivery speed or performance.
