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This is always a good idea in my view. You never have any idea how the old owner treated their cars. How much they overlooked it/cooked it etc...

The West Somerset Academies Trust is a group of like-minded schools that share common values and always put children at the centre of our thinking. Our family of academies works together to promote high academic standards and the development of good character. We are seeking to appoint an experienced Technician to join our Trust IT Support Team. The successful applicant will carry out site visits and will provide remote support to help ensure high quality learning and teaching across our schools and nurseries. S/he will have excellent verbal and written communication skills and will have a sound understanding of networking issues and IT devices maintenance and repair. Salary: £22,183 Working hours: 37 hours per week, all year round Work Location: Across all areas / locations of West Somerset Academies Trust Person spec and application forms can be downloaded here. Closing Date for applications: Midday, at 12 noon 14th September 2020 Once completed, please e-mail your application back to: [email protected] We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share our commitment. A criminal disclosure check will be requested for any applicant who is offered a position.

I can't see how a school could follow the DfE guidance for ensuring bubbles etc without following those sort of rules to be honest. Going into rooms all across the school breaks down the bubble concept entirely.

You say that but our Trust has agreed our policy for IT support here being: 1. No-one coming to the door - send a request via the helpdesk or phone. 2. We will book a time to come to the room when it is empty so as to not cross bubbles etc... 3. Our staff will wear a mask when cleaning and fixing PCs, to prevent splashback from the cleaning sprays etc...

The other day on the bus here, there were 9 of us on the bus. 6 wearing masks. 2 not wearing masks were a young mum with her child and a friend, and 1 was an older frail looking lady. Of the remaining 6, 3 were wearing their masks properly. 2 of the remaining 3 had their nose out, and one had basically only their top lip covered - it was under their nose and rolled up over their top lip... So, yeah, we don't seem to be doing well down here.

Yeah, you'll need to add the same cert to all those roles.

I hate having anything touching my face. I struggle washing my face every day. Always been an issue, since I was a kid and nearly drowned in a pool. Pretty much a phobia at this point. I struggle to swim because I won't put my face in the water. Putting my motorcycle helmet on is a big struggle and I hate it. But, I always wear a mask when I am asked to.

COVID-19 is more uncomfortable. A lot of people in Sweden are angry at their government for getting their response wrong. Sweden is 7th highest for deaths per capita... So, not exactly a country to go "ooh, they've done well" at. Only to people who want something to be divisive. It is literally a small bit of cloth over your face. There's NOTHING inherently divisive about that. Now this one I agree with. Yes, they make communication difficult. But its not the worst trade off... These are minor issues that can be resolved with an ounce of forethought. In a school? We collect all sorts of data... On the street? It is difficult, sure. That's on the staff to keep on top of. Considering children are supposed to be staying in their bubbles, there should be limited "non-staffed" time where issues like this can occur.

If you run Get-RDWebClientBrokerCert, does it return details of the right certificate on the server you have the HTML client installed on?

We were sent a single one for a looked after child. But the council didn't bother to talk to us first, and we had already issued that child a Chromebook as part of our wider rollout of 1:1 devices. The council took it back, so our Trust of 6 schools ended up with nothing from that scheme.

That'd require multiple servers and I can't see the advantage of doing it for what is a bit of fun.

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OK, so the rules in place are: Forwarders: Source - Destination - Ports - Comments WAN/SIP Provider network - External IP - any ports - a simple blanket rule allowing traffic from the SIP provider to our 3CX server. WAN/Any - External IP - TCP/UDP 9000:9500 (SIP Media), TCP/UDP 5090 (SIP Tunnelling), TCP/UDP 5060 (SIP), TCP/UDP 10600:10998 (SIP Media 2), TCP 5001 (3CX Admin) - Admin is allowed in order for the 3cx config files to work outside the network for home workers LAN/Phone Server - Any - Any - Allowed. (Blanket allowed outgoing from the 3cx server) (masquerading on) It could probably be narrowed down outgoing, but I don't have a huge issue with the phone server having those abilities.

We have it running via an XG. I'll have a look at the rules I put in and let you know

We use Ruckus at most of our schools. Have been using it for about a decade at this point. Can't fault it. Good kit, good support.

And yeah, that page says not to start new uses of Privacy Shield.

There are specific restrictions on shipping data out of the EU - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/international-transfers/

The issue is that we don't have any legal power to make that decision - we can decide to use services for our legally required purposes, but we can't decide "we're fine shipping that data out of the country, to be slurped up by their intelligence services, without the individual's permission or any recourse". The law states we're not allowed to ship data out of the country without certain protections. The USA doesn't provide those protections. Therefore, we would have to have consent to be able to send that data out of country and bypass the law preventing us doing it using any other justification. The only people who have the right to decide that are the people whose data it is - the staff and children (and their parents for below age children).

The problem is that from a risk perspective? We're rather wide open right now. Even if the ICO doesn't go stomping around telling people to stop using US companies etc... What happens when a litigious parent realises their child's data is being sent to the US without implicit consent, and takes us to court over it? This ruling seems to sit firmly on their side. So even if the UK courts erred on the side of caution, the litigant could well take it to a higher court where this ruling would be brought up. Obviously this would go into a DPIA as a risk, but the severity of the risk is quite high, even if it is unlikely (though, certain schools have seen some parents willing to go all out in their legal battles before).

You wouldn't be covered, I don't think, no. The issue is that US law via their CLOUD Act allows them to slurp data from non-US data centres, even if they're owned by a non-US subsidiary, with no recourse to appeal or privacy from the people whose data it is. Basically, as non-US citizens you have zero recourse against the US govt about any of it - which is against GDPR. Which is why SCCs with US entities also seem to be useless - sure, they are civil mechanisms that would be legal, but the US law behind it all means that as soon as the govt over there says something the SCC is useless. We have a few US based companies we use. Eg. WeVideo, Plickers, Join It, Class Dojo, to name a few.