For the person who looks after technology in a school
Answer good questions for an hour.
Get something you can put in front of governors.
Digital Confidence turns what you already know about your school into a clear position on seven things that matter — and tells you the one next step for each.
Try the benchmark — no account needed See what you get
Free to start. No card, no sales call, and your answers save as you go.
The seven things
Not a technology list. These are the parts of the job you are actually accountable for, and every tool feeds into them.
Keeping people safe online
Filtering, monitoring, and the link between what happens online and safeguarding.
Protecting the school from attack
Accounts, backups, what happens when something goes wrong, and whether you would get back.
Looking after data
What you hold, why, for how long, who else touches it, and what you would do about a breach.
Leadership and governance
Who decides, what governors see, and whether technology has a plan and a budget line.
The network underneath
Broadband, wireless, cabling, switching, and where your systems actually run.
The kit people use
Devices, how they get replaced and paid for, accessibility, and how support actually works.
Getting value from technology
Whether technology is saving time, helping teaching, and earning what it costs.
Why this is different from a compliance checklist
Progress, not a wall of red
Each area sits at one of five stages, and we tell you the single thing standing between you and the next one. "Nobody has tested a restore from backup" is more useful than sixty amber dots.
"Not sure" is a real answer
It becomes a clear open item that says what is needed and who supplies it. It never quietly becomes a yes, and it never counts as a failure.
A view governors can read
One page, in five minutes, shared by a link with no login to create — and it prints as a board pack.
Start where it hurts
IT Capacity & Complexity Benchmark
About 15 minutes. How much IT resource the demands on your school actually imply, split by the kind of work and by who does it — and how that compares with what you have.
Filtering and monitoring check
About 15 minutes. Produces the annual review record the DfE standards and KCSIE expect you to hold, with the roles named.
Plus cyber security, data protection, digital strategy, technology value, the DfE technology standards, and the AI policy builder.