Helping schools make sense of the technologies and solutions available to help them. 

Digital Safety and Wellbeing Framework

Smoothwall's Digital Safety and Wellbeing Framework has been designed to help schools navigate the types of technologies and solutions available in the market.
 
Using our Framework schools can explore their current level of provision to determine whether it goes far enough to address today's challenges and meet their statutory requirements. 
 

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Prevention & Enablement

Our solutions here minimise exposure to known risks to prevent harms. They help decrease the need for intervention. They are the first step to a child-safe and healthy digital life. 

Classroom Internet Management

Our digital classroom solutions give teachers full-screen visibility and control of school devices used in class. They help keep teachers teaching and students on-task and learning.

Content Filtering

Our filter solutions are world-class. Providing real-time, content-aware and granular control capability they stop harmful content with no constraints on a rich learning experience for students. 

Firewall

Combines protection and visibility helping you streamline your network security.

Education & Engagement

Solutions here educate and raise awareness of concerns. They facilitate school community engagement and empower them to be a key partner in safety & wellbeing objectives.

Parental Empowerment

Our ‘Qustodio’ app provides parents with visibility and reporting into what is happening on their child's devices. Our parental webinars guide parents towards informed and positive conversations with their children about online safety and wellbeing.

Governor Engagement

Our ‘Qustodio’ app provides parents with visibility and reporting into what is happening on their child's devices. Our parental webinars guide parents towards informed and positive conversations with their children about online safety and wellbeing.

Staff Engagement

School staff are supported by our training and consultancy teams. Also by our Online Safety Hub. Packed with helpful resources on the latest topics, trends, guides, and best practice articles, it is a vital reference to anyone on the front line of student digital safety and wellbeing. 

Student Education

Students can learn about digital safety through our Digital Experts Academy. Quizzes, videos and practical exercises help them build awareness and resilience and pass on that understanding to their peers.

Early Detection

Our solutions here help identify the early signs of safety and wellbeing issues. They enable prompt intervention and help prevent escalation of impacted learning as well as social, emotional, psychological or physical harm.

Record Management

Our granular reporting includes trends emerging over time. School district and MAT leaders can report organisation-wide or per schools and provide support at every level.

Proactive Risk Monitoring

Our multi award-winning monitoring solution ‘Monitor’ works in real-time to alert pastoral teams to students at risk - based on their digital behaviours.

Real-time Wellbeing

Our granular reporting includes trends emerging over time. School district and MAT leaders can report organisation-wide or per schools and provide support at every level.

Training & Consultancy

Our Training and Consultancy programs empower educators and their communities to better understand the digital landscape and the steps they can take to help children thrive online.

Our digital classroom solutions give teachers full-screen visibility and control of school devices used in class. They help keep teachers teaching and students on-task and learning.

Our filter solutions are world-class. Providing real-time, content-aware and granular control capability they stop harmful content with no constraints on a rich learning experience for students. 

Combines protection and visibility helping you streamline your network security.

Our ‘Qustodio’ app provides parents with visibility and reporting into what is happening on their child's devices. Our parental webinars guide parents towards informed and positive conversations with their children about online safety and wellbeing.

Our ‘Qustodio’ app provides parents with visibility and reporting into what is happening on their child's devices. Our parental webinars guide parents towards informed and positive conversations with their children about online safety and wellbeing.

School staff are supported by our training and consultancy teams. Also by our Online Safety Hub. Packed with helpful resources on the latest topics, trends, guides, and best practice articles, it is a vital reference to anyone on the front line of student digital safety and wellbeing. 

Students can learn about digital safety through our Digital Experts Academy. Quizzes, videos and practical exercises help them build awareness and resilience and pass on that understanding to their peers.

Our granular reporting includes trends emerging over time. School district and MAT leaders can report organisation-wide or per schools and provide support at every level.

Our multi award-winning monitoring solution ‘Monitor’ works in real-time to alert pastoral teams to students at risk - based on their digital behaviours.

Our granular reporting includes trends emerging over time. School district and MAT leaders can report organisation-wide or per schools and provide support at every level.

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How it works

Developed in consultation with customers our Framework sees each type of solution aligned to one of three fundamental pillars.

The pillars are those commonly used in health and safety strategies. 

Prevention | Intervention | Education. 

Each pillar addresses an essential component of an effective digital safety and wellbeing strategy that a school, college or MAT can use.

Supported by our team if needed, customers can use it to identify their priorities and plan the steps needed to achieve a more efficient and robust provision of care.

Our Framework is also a useful way for school leaders to keep abreast of the types of solutions available to them in the market. Also to see the role each of them plays, and to understand how they can be combined to help build a digital wellbeing culture across the whole community.  

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Prevention & Enablement 

Solutions in this pillar deliver greatest impact by helping to minimise students’ exposure to known risks.

When known risks are mitigated schools can begin to reduce the need for interventions.

Web filtering solutions that help prevent students from seeing inappropriate, harmful or dangerous content live here.

So do classroom management tools that help minimise exposure to distractions in the digital classroom, giving teachers full control to keep students focused and on-task.  

Prevention and enablement are the first steps in a school's digital safety and wellbeing strategy. 

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Smoothwall solutions:

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Filter

Unparalleled, real-time filtering. Designed from the ground up for UK education. Trusted by 1 in 3 schools.

 

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Firewall

A unified threat management solution. It combines with Smoothwall Filter for a complete all in one protection package.

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What our customers say

Schools share their views on the importance of preventative digital safety measures.

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Early Detection & Intervention 

Solutions in this pillar help provide vital insight if students' online behaviours suggest they may be at risk or vulnerable in an area of their lives.

They also provide a channel for students to speak up and express how they are feeling - either about themselves or things that are happening in their lives. 

Solutions in this pillar can let schools know if a student is suspected of being in harm's way or starting to become vulnerable, They can also help identify the causative factors behind unsafe online searches identified by the web filter.

Early detection and intervention solutions helps schools to spot risks they may not otherwise see and help prevent vulnerable students from slipping under the radar. 

Early detection and intervention solutions work hand-in-hand with prevention and enablement tools to provide a meaningful and responsive digital safety and wellbeing provision. 

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Smoothwall solutions:

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Monitor

Immediately alerts schools to vulnerable students based on their digital behaviours.

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Pulse

An easy way for students to speak up and schools to assess wellbeing levels.

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Record Manager

A robust and trustworthy solution that allows schools to record and monitor students to ensure their wellbeing.

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What our customers say

Schools share their views on the importance of detecting and intervening early on digital safety.

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Education & Engagement 

Solutions in this pillar better educate the school community and encourage them to play a more active role in student digital safety and wellbeing.

When teachers, parents and students are more informed they can influence wellbeing outcomes and strengthen capacity. This reduces the physical and emotional burdens traditionally shouldered by IT and pastoral staff alone.

A focus on education and engagement helps to build culture. Culture in turn helps build resilience and reduce risks overall.

When all three pillars are represented in a school's wellbeing strategy, student wellbeing can increase, outcomes can improve and lives can transform. 

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Smoothwall solutions:

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Training & Consultancy

Helping and guiding leaders, DSLs, governors and parents towards digital safety excellence.

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Qustodio Parental App

An all-in-one solution to help parents keep their child’s screen time safe and balanced.

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Online Safety Hub

Dedicated resources to bridge the knowledge gap between adult and child. 

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What our customers say

Schools share their views on the importance of educating and engaging their school communities.  

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