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2025 Appropriate filtering and monitoring definitions published for public consultation

Source: UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) published on this website Monday 3 March 2025 by Jill Powell

The UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) has published a draft of its ‘appropriate’ filtering and monitoring definitions for 2025 for public consultation. The definitions help both schools and providers understand what is considered ‘appropriate’ and comments are invited regarding this years proposed revisions.

Alongside the DfE’s introduction of statutory guidanceand Prevent Duty obligations, UKSIC first published its filtering and monitoring definitions in 2016 to help both schools and providers understand what should be considered as ‘appropriate’.  

Included here are final proposed revisions alongside a version that tracks the changes compared to 2024 with a summary of the substantive changes, both for Filtering and Monitoring