Personal Pages & Blogs category - Block or Unblock?

[Arcolite]

We're finding that the majority of our Unblock requested from Students these days are for resources within Blogs on WordPress, Blogger and others.

In the past, we've always kept the "Personal Pages & Blogs" category blocked for Students on whatever Filtering products we've used. This was mainly due to the potential for inappropriate comments and content that can often be found.

 

We would then just unblock each one as the requests come in, however this leads to quite a long white list to maintain.

 

With an increasing number of of useful resources being hosted within this category I'm wondering if there's a better solution.

 

How do you handle this category?

[Norphy]

Have you got your safeguarding people involved? This is one for them really.

[Arcolite]

Have you got your safeguarding people involved? This is one for them really.

 

Yes, it's been through them - last time we changed the filtering (Oct 2016) we sat down and discussed the categories to block. If I'm honest, they don't understand web filtering too well and lean on me to explain it all.