The definitions should help schools and providers understand what is considered 'appropriate', this is alongside the DfE's statutory guidance:
Keeping Children Safe in Education
DfE Filtering and Monitoring Standards for Schools and Colleges
The substantive changes include:
- References to the updated Keeping Children Safe in Education
- Hate Speech as inappropriate online content.
- Ensuring no one in a school can disable filters for illegal content.
- Contextual content filter and dynamically filter the responses produced by ChatGPT (ensuring that the filtering system is capable of analysing GenAI created content).
- An update to prompt providers to describe how their systems are deployed alongside any required configurations.
- Additional clarity of any configuration required to filter system features of App and Mobile Content.
The full consultation can be viewed:
2024 Appropriate filtering and monitoring definitions published for public consultation