risks. 141. The appropriateness of any filtering and monitoring systems are a matter for individual schools and colleges and will be informed in part, by the risk assessment required by the Prevent Duty.41 142. The Department for Education’s filtering and monitoring standards set out that schools and colleges should: • identify and assign roles and responsibilities to manage filtering and monitoring systems. • review filtering and monitoring provision at least annually. • block harmful and inappropriate content without unreasonably impacting teaching and learning. • have effective monitoring strategies in place that meet their safeguarding needs. • schools can use the department’s ‘plan technology for your school service’ to self- assess against the filtering and monitoring standards and receive personalised recommendations on how to meet them. 143. Governing bodies and proprietors should review the standards and discuss with IT staff and service providers what more needs to be done to support schools and colleges in meeting this standard. Additional guidance on “appropriate” filtering and monitoring can be found at: 41 The Prevent duty Departmental advice for schools and childcare providers and Home Office Statutory guidance: Prevent duty guidance. 41 • UK Safer Internet Centre: https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and- resource/teachers-and-school-staff/appropriate-filtering-and-monitoring. The UK Safer Internet Centre produced a series of webinars for teachers on behalf of the Department. These webinars were designed to inform and support schools with their filtering and monitoring responsibilities and can be assessed at Filtering and monitoring webinars available – UK Safer Internet Centre. • South West Grid for Learning (swgfl.org.uk) has created a tool to check whet