The National Education Network (NEN) is a UK-based collaborative initiative that provides educational resources, technical support, and impartial advice to schools, colleges, and educational institutions. It offers high-quality teaching materials, guidance on network design and cybersecurity, and helps institutions achieve cost savings through aggregated procurement.

The UK Government's cyber security standards for schools and colleges outline essential practices to protect digital assets and data. These standards cover risk assessments, creating cyber response plans, and ensuring systems are secure with anti-malware and firewalls.

NCSC supports the most critical organisations in the UK, the wider public sector, industry, SMEs as well as the general public. When incidents do occur, NCSC provides effective incident response to minimise harm to the UK, helps with recovery, and learns lessons for the future.

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. They inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. Ofsted also inspects and regulates services that care for children and young people.

The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England.

Practical information about your data protection and information rights.

The OfS is the regulator for higher education in England. They protect the interests of students by supporting a diverse and independent higher education sector.

The SFC is Scotland’s tertiary education and research authority with a purpose to sustain a world-leading system of tertiary education, research and innovation that enables students to flourish, changes lives for the better, and supports social, economic and environmental wellbeing and prosperity.