HomeSchool Mobile

Home School

Safe, filtered internet access for students and staff at home.

HomeSchool is Oakford’s solution for providing secure, school-grade internet filtering and monitoring outside the school building. Whether learners have broadband at home or rely on mobile connectivity, HomeSchool ensures they receive the same protections, filtering policies, logging, and safeguarding oversight as they do onsite.

This allows schools and Multi-Academy Trusts to maintain consistent safeguarding standards — no matter where students are learning.

What is HomeSchool?

HomeSchool extends your school’s filtering, monitoring and safeguarding policies to any home environment. It ensures:

The same filtering policies used in school
Full logging and reporting
Real-time categorisation and SSL inspection
Alerts and escalation workflows
Per-user filtering rules (students, groups, staff, MAT policies)

It provides safe, filtered internet access from any location using:

HomeSchool: Client Filter — A software-based solution for school-controlled devices using existing home broadband.
HomeSchool: Mobile Filter — A 4G/5G mobile broadband solution for homes without internet access, provided via Oakford SIMs, MiFi units or dongles.

Both deliver identical filtering, monitoring and safeguarding protection — regardless of the home’s connectivity situation.

How Does HomeSchool Work?

HomeSchool is powered by an award-winning filtering platform using:

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) blocklists
Prevent Duty lists
Real-time categorisation
Automatic classification of new websites
Continuous threat intelligence updates

All internet traffic from a device using HomeSchool is sent through Oakford’s secure filtering engine. This ensures children are protected anywhere in the UK, not just on the school network.

HomeSchool: Client Filter

For homes with existing broadband

A lightweight software client is installed on school-controlled devices (Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android or iOS).

All web traffic is sent securely back to Oakford’s filtering servers where it is:

Categorised
Checked against user-specific school/MAT policies
Logged and monitored
Flagged for alerts if needed

Ideal for 1:1 device programmes where students take devices home daily.

HomeSchool: Mobile Filter (4G/5G)

For homes without broadband — or where connectivity is unreliable

This solution provides both the internet connection and the filtering in one package.

Features include:

Oakford-supplied SIM inside a MiFi unit or USB dongle
Works with school-owned or student-owned devices
Fully filtered at the network level
No need for home broadband
Secure connection straight to Oakford’s filtering platform

Schools may use their own 4G/5G hardware or request equipment from Oakford.

Why HomeSchool?

The Challenge

During remote and hybrid learning (particularly evident during COVID-19), children accessed online resources for hours each day. This increased exposure to harmful or inappropriate content — and not all households have reliable internet access.

The Risks

Online harm is rising. Filtering tools detect:

Over 250,000 new risks every day
Search terms linked to radicalisation
Self-harm
Suicide advice
Violent content
Inappropriate material

Schools must continue safeguarding learners even away from the school site.

The Solution: HomeSchool

HomeSchool delivers the same connectivity, filtering, monitoring, alerting and e-safety protections used in UK schools — now extended into pupils’ homes.

It supports:

School-owned devices using home broadband
Students who have no broadband access at home
MAT-wide safeguarding consistency
Remote and hybrid learning
Staff working securely from home

Key Benefits

Secure

E Safety First

BECTA approved filtering, monitoring and reporting.

Low Cost

Prices from as little as £8.50 per month.

No Contract

Flexible month to month subscription.

Plug & Play

Simple to deploy — no technical expertise required.

Safeguard Your Students At Home

Ensure learners receive the same level of online protection wherever they are.

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