Broadband for School

DfE-Approved Business Leased Line with Content and Web Filtering, Plus

Backup Fibre Broadband for UK Education

Empower your school with secure, ultra-reliable internet solutions that meet the latest Department for Education standards. The VoIP Shop provides DfE approved leased line connectivity, advanced content filtering, and resilient backup fibre broadband—ensuring your students and staff enjoy seamless digital learning, robust safeguarding, and uninterrupted access to essential resources. Our tailored packages for UK schools are designed to keep your campus compliant, protected, and always connected.

Stay connected, safe, and compliant—future-proof broadband solutions for education.

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What is an Educational Broadband Connection?

An educational broadband connection is a dedicated high-speed internet service tailored specifically for the needs of schools, colleges, and other UK educational institutions. Unlike standard broadband, it delivers robust, symmetrical speeds and advanced security built for digital classrooms, safeguarding, and remote learning.


This purpose-built connectivity solution meets Department for Education (DfE) standards, ensuring reliable access to online resources, seamless cloud platform integration, and protection against exposure to harmful or inappropriate content.


By using education broadband, institutions secure both the performance and online safety required to support Ofsted and KCSIE (Keeping Children Safe in Education) compliance—prioritising student welfare and digital learning continuity.

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How Does It Work?

An educational broadband connection works by providing a reserved, uncontended fibre-optic circuit directly to the school or college premises. This means your bandwidth is not shared with neighbours, delivering consistent speeds for every user on campus.


The service includes a managed router, robust firewall, and advanced web content filtering configured for education safeguarding policies. With features such as automatic failover to backup fibre, real-time threat monitoring, and 24/7 technical support, the system ensures constant connectivity and safety.


All web activity is filtered according to school group needs—blocking inappropriate material yet allowing access to essential educational resources. This infrastructure allows institutions to scale bandwidth as digital needs grow, stay online during outages, and maintain compliance with government requirements.

Why Is a DfE-Approved Leased Line Important for Schools and Colleges in the UK?

A DfE-approved leased line is crucial for UK education because it ensures your connectivity fully complies with strict Department for Education regulations—now essential with the BT copper, PSTN, and ISDN switch-off underway. It provides your school with:

How School Broadband different from other connections
  • Guaranteed performance: Symmetrical, uncontended speeds (e.g., up to 10Gbps) fit for streaming, cloud learning, and remote access—even during peak times.
  • Safeguarding compliance: Advanced, KCSIE-mandated web filtering and threat monitoring to protect students and staff online.
  • Resilience: Instant failover to backup fibre means uninterrupted lessons, exams, and administration.
  • Ofsted readiness: Automated logs, reports, and inspection-ready compliance.
  • Future-proofing: Scalable, next-generation connectivity built for increasingly digital curricula.



Choosing DfE-approved connectivity keeps your school inspection-ready, maintains safeguarding standards, and ensures learning never stops—no matter what happens to legacy copper lines or outdated systems.

How to Get Broadband from The VoIP Shop?

  • Getting DfE-approved broadband for your school is straightforward and fully supported by our education experts. Here’s how your institution can upgrade to a faster, safer, and fully compliant connection—before the PSTN and ISDN switch-off impacts UK schools nationwide:

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Request Your Custom Quote:

Complete our quick online form or call our education specialists to receive a tailored quote based on your school’s specific requirements and student numbers.

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Free DfE Compliance Review:

Our team will review your current broadband setup at no cost, assessing speed, filtering, backup resilience, and full DfE compliance. You’ll receive a clear report with improvement recommendations.

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Approve & Schedule Installation:

Once you’re ready to proceed, we’ll handle everything—arranging a convenient installation date to minimise disruption. All hardware and configuration are included.

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Lightning-Fast Installation:

Our education-trained engineers ensure seamless set-up, rigorous safeguarding configuration, and comprehensive testing—so you’re ready for Ofsted, audits, and the new term without worry.

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Always-On Support & Automatic Failover:

Benefit from 24/7 UK-based support, real-time monitoring, and automatic backup fibre for guaranteed uptime—even if your main line fails.

Join 1,000+ UK schools upgrading before the PSTN/ISDN switch-off—guarantee your connection.

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What Features Are Available at The VoIP Shop Broadband for School DfE UK?


At The VoIP Shop, our broadband solutions for schools and colleges are purpose-designed to help UK education providers meet Department for Education (DfE) compliance, keep students safe online, and ensure uninterrupted learning—no matter the challenge. We combine cutting-edge technology with in-depth sector expertise to protect your digital campus, support Ofsted and safeguarding demands, and provide resilience as the UK transitions from legacy copper and PSTN lines.


Explore the standout features that set The VoIP Shop’s DfE-approved education broadband apart:

Automatic Failover

Ensure continuous learning and operational resilience with automatic failover—if your primary broadband connection drops, a backup fibre service instantly takes over. This seamless transition happens in seconds, so students and staff remain connected during network outages, maintenance, or unexpected faults. With guaranteed uptime and zero lessons lost, your school is always Ofsted and DfE ready, no matter what.

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The Voip Shop’s Cloud hosted business VoIP Phone systems, call conferencing suite, and call center system products are all cloud-based, freeing you from expensive equipment, complex hardware and high costs. A cloud phone system is flexible, provides features to enhance productivity and efficiency and reduces costs by up to 40%. It allows you to move locations seamlessly and communicate from any device (Desk phone, smartphone, tablet and Laptop)
Customisable Filtering

Customisable Filtering

Protect students and empower flexible learning with customisable web filtering tailored to your school’s needs. The VoIP Shop enables separate policies for staff, students, and specific year groups, adapting internet access so everyone gets the resources they need—while harmful or distracting content stays out. Filters are easy to modify, helping you stay compliant with DfE and KCSIE (Keeping Children Safe in Education) standards.

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Flexible Backup Options

Never worry about connectivity gaps. Supporting campuses of all sizes, The VoIP Shop offers flexible backup broadband—choose the bandwidth and resilience that matches your size, budget, and usage. Whether it's a secondary fibre or business-grade 4G/5G, your backup integrates with automatic failover, so your school’s connectivity is fully protected from single points of failure.

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Prevent Duty & Safeguarding Compliance

Prevent Duty & Safeguarding Compliance

Meet your statutory safeguarding responsibilities confidently. With advanced, DfE-recognised filtering and monitoring, The VoIP Shop’s solutions help you fully comply with the UK’s Prevent Duty and safeguarding legislation. Filtering blocks extremist, harmful, and inappropriate content, satisfying Ofsted and KCSIE guidelines and supporting a safe, inclusive online environment for children and staff.

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Real-time Monitoring & Alerts

Enjoy peace of mind with real-time network monitoring and instant alerts. The VoIP Shop’s broadband continuously scans web activity, detecting concerning patterns such as attempts to access restricted sites. Automated alerts keep your safeguarding team informed and ready to intervene proactively, reducing manual oversight and strengthening your school’s digital safety net.

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Regular Updates

Regular Updates

Stay ahead of emerging threats and regulatory changes. The VoIP Shop’s broadband solutions offer regular updates to filtering policies, security definitions, and compliance frameworks—ensuring your school’s protection evolves with online risks. With automatic enhancements rolled out with no hassle, your digital safeguarding is always at the cutting edge.

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Why Schools Choose The VoIP Shop: Key Benefits

Upgrade with confidence—The VoIP Shop combines DfE-compliant broadband with resilient connectivity and expert support. Our solution delivers future-ready speed, digital safeguarding, and peace of mind for schools preparing for regulatory changes. Empower your campus with secure, seamless connectivity that supports learners and staff every day.

24/7 Safe, Reliable, and Fast Connection for Pupils and Staff

Stay connected round-the-clock with high-speed broadband designed specifically for education. Our service ensures students and staff have uninterrupted access to learning platforms, video calls, and resources—supporting a smooth teaching and administrative experience all day, every day.

Ready for Ofsted, DfE, and Safeguarding Inspections

Our broadband solution fully complies with Department for Education standards and safeguarding guidelines including KCSIE. Easily demonstrate your school’s commitment to digital safety and performance, with filtering, monitoring, and reporting tools that satisfy Ofsted and DfE inspectors.

One-Bill Simplicity for Broadband, Backup, Security, and Voice

Simplify your school’s communications with a single invoice covering broadband, backup connectivity, web filtering, and optional voice services. Consolidating providers reduces complexity, streamlines budgeting, and saves time on vendor management.

Scalable Bandwidth for New EdTech and Flexible Learning

As digital learning evolves, your broadband can grow with it. We offer scalable symmetric speeds up to 10Gbps, ensuring your network supports video streaming, cloud apps, and emerging EdTech without slowing down, delivering seamless experiences for all users.

Resilience Against Network and Copper Line Failure

With the BT PSTN and copper network switch-off approaching, our automatic backup fibre ensures your school stays connected even if the primary line fails. This resilience guards against outages, minimising disruption and safeguarding teaching continuity.

Position Your School for the BT PSTN/ISDN Switch Off in 2025

Prepare proactively for the nationwide copper and PSTN retirement. Our DfE-approved, fibre-based leased lines ensure your school meets future-proof digital infrastructure requirements—avoiding costly last-minute upgrades and compliance risks.

Limited installation slots available—secure your school’s DfE-compliant, high-speed broadband before the 2025 PSTN switch-off deadline!

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Rapid Installation Service

Educational fibre gets your business online fast, with minimal wait and maximum efficiency. Our end-to-end approach—from wayleave to final test—means you can start using your leased line without delay.

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FAQs

Answers to some of our most commonly asked questions for Broadband for School (DfE)

  • What happens to my school’s broadband after the copper switch-off?

    With the copper, PSTN, and ISDN network switch-off, all schools must migrate to full fibre connections. Upgrading ensures uninterrupted service, higher speeds, and future compliance as old copper lines are permanently decommissioned.

  • How does DfE-compliant content filtering protect students?

    DfE-compliant filtering blocks access to harmful, inappropriate, or illegal online content. It helps schools fulfil safeguarding duties, keeping pupils safe by meeting Ofsted and KCSIE internet safety requirements.

  • What makes a leased line ‘business grade’ and DfE approved?

    A business grade, DfE-approved leased line offers symmetrical, uncontended speeds, strict uptime guarantees, and advanced safeguarding features. It fully meets Department for Education standards, ensuring reliable and compliant connectivity for UK schools.

  • How quickly can my school get connected?

    Most schools are connected within weeks of order approval, though final times depend on site surveys and installation requirements. Early enquiries guarantee faster scheduling, especially ahead of the national network switch-off.

  • Is backup fibre included, and does it activate automatically?

    Yes—backup fibre is included with education packages. If your main line fails, automatic failover instantly switches you to backup, maintaining a seamless connection at all times.

  • What ongoing support and maintenance is provided?

    You receive 24/7 UK-based support, proactive monitoring, system updates, and rapid fault resolution. The VoIP Shop ensures your broadband, security, and filtering are always working at peak performance, so your school stays connected and compliant.

See how VoIP can help your business

Reduce Communications Costs
 
Huge cost savings against old legacy and competing hosted telephony solutions providing a dramatically lower total cost of ownership.

Simplicity & Efficiency

Setup is simple and quick with plug-and-play. No hardware setup is required and your call flow is ready to go live in minutes with the ability to scale up as your business grows. 

Increase Productivity

Make your office communications faster and more flexible than ever before with easy to manage administration.

Why choose The VoIP Shop?

Join thousands of organizations using The Voip Shop’s Cloud Hosted VoIP and business phone systems, mobile VoIP applications, web and video conferencing, and cloud call center to communicate better.
VoIP costs 40% less than traditional phone systems

All inclusive phone line rental, phone system, features, support, and unlimited call packages for mobile and landline calls, with wholesale international calling rates.

Trusted UK-based technical support you can rely on

Free support with full management of phone system included. Our reliable and trusted team of engineers is on hand to assist you with technical support at all times, so you can focus on your business.   

Designed for the modern workforce in one or multiple locations

Make and receive calls on multiple devices. Employees can work from any location using any device, including a smartphone, tablet or desktop/laptop, with our mobile calling apps.
 
Set up and fully managed for you by our team of phone system experts

We fully manage the whole process of switchover, from dealing with your existing provider to the transfer of your existing office phone number. If you are setting up a new business, we will set up a new number for you.

Our powerful features improve engagement with your customers

The VoIP Shop provides business phone systems. Whether you’re a call center, school, medical clinic or any other business reliant on a phone system, our VoIP phone system features offer a modern solution for your workplace. 

Features include:  


Call Transfer, Music on Hold, Caller ID, Speed Dials, and Phone Directory,


Voicemail system with Voicemail-to-Email allows you to pick up your call anywhere, even on the move,


Reliable conference calling system that doesn't drop or leave you wondering what's being said,


Auto Attendant, Welcome Greetings, and Interactive Voice Response can direct calls to the right person/department,


Call forwarding helps you answer the calls you need to, even when you're out of the office,


Call Centre Management System with Visual Wallboard reports live call stats and provides online portal management. 

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We have a team of experts in telecommunications on standby to assess your individual business needs and requirements. These experts can tailor each solution to ensure it covers everything you need and more. 
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Our Solutions

Services to help business of all sizes and budgets get better connected. 
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 Flexible pricing plans designed for your Business

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Unlimited Calls

Get Unlimited National, Local and Mobile Calls in the UK

Lots of Bundled features

Included in your price you get Voicemail, Call Reporting, Conference Calls, Voicemail to email and a dedicated App for mobile.

Fast and Efficient Installation

It’s easy to install and simple to learn which means staff require minimal training and avoids disruption amongst staff and IT departments.

Business Critical Reliability

Resilience is built into the core of the Voip Phone System. Our telephone systems are relied upon by Taxi firms, Colleges, 24/7 Nursing homes, GP Surgery’s, Insurance Companies and more.

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Enjoy all-inclusive service on one bill

The Voip Shop combines your traditional analog Phone system, phone lines and calls into one simple bill. Get everything, including phone system with 80+ features, voicemail, fax, local and international calls, auto attendants, mobile apps, call queues, and more for a low all-inclusive monthly price.

Fortune 500 communications without the fortune

Upgrade your business phone system to state-of-the-art Hosted VoIP and business communications to give your customers the best possible experience. When world-class technology meets affordable pricing.

Cloud Phone Systems Integration with Business Applications

The Voip Shop can connect your CRM and business applications with your phone system in one platform. So your employees can be more efficient, more productive and better serve your customers in real time. 
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Unlimited calling to UK Landline and mobiles.
24/7 live support behind your VOIP Business Cloud Phone service
Keep your current phone numbers or select new numbers
Setup is simple, quick and easy to scale as your  business grows

 Discover How The Voip Shop can Transform Your Business

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Small or global, our cloud solutions help you future proof your business with cost-effective setup, easy scaling and support to help you succeed

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Get the power of your business phone system, collaboration tools and business applications on all your devices and turn your business into a mobile office.

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Scale quickly and easily, save on infrastructure with virtual service and more.

Upgrade your
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With The Voip Shop, automatic system enhancements happen virtually. Get a feature-rich business phone system that does more better.

Connect Virtual
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Cloud-based access, mobile integrations plus more that unify remote users and offices under one communications roof.

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Employee Calls

Choose company-wide or on-demand, You can easily access your call files online.

Voip Shop Solutions

Enjoy all inclusive services on one bill

The Voip Shop combines your traditional analog Phone system, phone lines and calls into one simple bill. Get everything, including phone system with 80+ features, voicemail, fax, local and international calls, auto attendants, mobile apps, call queues, and more for a low all-inclusive monthly price.

Fortune 500 communications without the fortune

Upgrade your business phone system to state-of-the-art Hosted VoIP and business communications to give your customers the best possible experience. When world-class technology meets affordable pricing.

Cloud Phone Systems Integration with Business Applications

The Voip Shop can connect your CRM and business applications with your phone system in one platform. So your employees can be more efficient, more productive and better serve your customers in real time. 

Cloud Phone Systems Integration with Business Applications

The Voip Shop can connect your CRM and business applications with your phone system in one platform. So your employees can be more efficient, more productive and better serve your customers in real time. 
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Jackie Quinn Lettings
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We have had our phone system from the Voip shop for 3 years now and it is absolutely great! They are so easy to work with and provide fantastic customer service!
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Mark Painter
6 days ago
We needed a VOIP solution for our business and were pleasantly surprised with the speed and efficiency of the service we received. They also offered much better value for money than other solutions we looked at. Will in sales and Muhammad on tech support both went above and beyond to get us up and running in super quick time. Definitely a happy customer.
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Dilip
7 days ago
Very satisfied with the product and the service not to mention the ton I am saving in billing.