For schools & DSLs

Canopy for Schools
and DSLs

Canopy helps UK Designated Safeguarding Leads and school staff understand children's AI use — and gives families the tools to manage it safely at home.

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What Canopy does

AI tools are now part of everyday student life. Canopy gives parents — and the schools that support them — a clear, practical way to manage that.

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DNS-level content filtering
Can block selected domains when a device uses the configured family DNS route. Parents should check each device and connection separately; a profile check does not prove whole-home coverage.
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Child-safe homework AI
Children get a Claude-powered homework helper with a layered safety system — regex, AI classification, and self-harm detection — built in from the start.
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Screen time scheduling
Parents can save a screen-time plan for each child, including school-night presets and custom schedules, then apply limits in their router or device controls.
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Parental visibility
Parents see what categories of content are being blocked, with a monthly summary of DNS queries and blocked domains.
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Mobile data guidance
Device-level setup guides explain controls that may reduce risks on mobile data. Home-router DNS settings do not follow a phone away from that network.
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Age-appropriate access
Year 1–6 children use one-tap magic links. Year 7–13 use a PIN on parent-approved devices. No passwords for young children to forget or share.

Built with UK safeguarding in mind

Canopy is designed around the realities UK DSLs face: children accessing AI tools at home, on mobile data, with parents who may not know where to start.

We're not a school IT product — we're a family safety tool that you can recommend to parents with confidence. No procurement process, no per-seat licensing.

Parents sign up directly and manage everything from a dashboard. DSLs can use our guides and articles in assemblies, parent evenings, or online safety sessions.

Relevant to your safeguarding work
✓Explains Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2026) online-safety guidance for parents
✓ChatGPT/OpenAI domain blocking on configured connections — not a complete AI-service category
✓Supports conversations with parents about AI risks at home
✓Self-harm patterns in child AI sessions can queue a generic parent alert; delivery is retried but not guaranteed
✓Child prompts are sent only to contracted service providers needed to operate and safeguard the homework helper

Useful for parent evenings and assemblies

Our articles are written for parents — plain English, no jargon, UK-focused.

How to set up safe search on any device→Parental controls on BT Smart Hub 2→Parental controls on Sky Q Hub→How to block AI chatbots on your home network→

Get in touch

If you'd like to talk about how Canopy can support your school's online safety work, or you have questions for parents to ask us, we'd love to hear from you.

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