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NCSC consolidates advice on secure home learning 

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of GCHQ – has published three blogposts collating existing guidance to help families, school communities and charities support pupils learning away from the classroom. The blogposts consolidate the most important advice to help manage remote education technology safely and present steps to take in a tailored, accessible format.

They can be found here: 

• Home learning: Advice for parents and carers
• Securing tools for remote education (for people responsible for managing schools’ IT)
• Erasing data from donated devices (for charities)

Home learning has been made possible thanks to unprecedented support from families, school IT support teams and suppliers, and charities running public donation appeals for devices – and the NCSC provided tailored advice and guidance to these groups throughout the pandemic. 

Previously, the NCSC has also published guidance for organisations on increasing remote working and shared top tips for individuals working from home; small businesses have been supported with advice on how to move their physical operations online, and secure video conferencing guidance has been produced for organisations and individuals.