TETHERX FOR EDUCATION // PRIMARY // SECONDARY // MAT // FE // HE
From the school gate to the safeguarding file - in one platform.
A DSL needs a clip before the parent meeting at four. A trust head needs estate-wide oversight without driving to every academy. The site manager just wants the gate camera to actually be online. TetherX gives every role the view they need, scoped to their school, on one login.
- Safeguarding-ready audit log - every view, every share, every download.
- Trust-wide oversight or single-academy scope - your governance, your rules.
- US data residency by default. Regional options for multi-campus estates.
Quote routed direct to a TetherX-accredited local installer who knows education estates. No central sales call.
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Accreditations across the TetherX installer network
TetherX partners hold the accreditations security-procurement buyers and insurers filter on. Coverage varies by partner.
Counts reflect partners currently in the TetherX directory holding each accreditation.
From incident to DSL file in a single afternoon.
A clip a DSL can actually use is not a USB stick from the site manager. It is a signed, time-bounded link with an audit trail attached - one the LADO, the local authority or the trust safeguarding lead can open without a phone call. TetherX is built around that workflow.
KCSIE-aligned audit log
Every view, share and download is recorded against the named user. The Designated Safeguarding Lead gets the standing answer the trust governance board and Ofsted both expect - not a maintenance log scrape.
Signed evidence for LADO & police
A signed link with a configurable expiry drops the clip in the LADO officer's inbox - or the safer-schools PC, or the trust solicitor. No USB stick, no chain-of-custody arguments, no driving the recorder to the station.
SARs & DPA-2018 ready
When a Subject Access Request lands from a parent or former student, your DPO has every view and share already logged. Answer in days, not weeks. Optional clip-redaction workflows for SAR responses.
Trust-wide or single-academy
A multi-academy trust head office sees every site. An individual head sees only theirs. A site manager sees only the cameras they need. Same dashboard, three different scopes - configured once at onboarding.
Cameras can't see in the toilets. Sensors can.
The hardest places to safeguard are the ones a camera should never be in. TetherX-supported environmental sensors give a discreet signal in the toilet block, the changing room and the storage cupboard - paired with the corridor camera that did see who went in.
On the rest of the site, on-device AI does the work a pastoral team can't. Hallway congestion at lesson change, a loitering ex-pupil at the gate, an after-hours intrusion at the science block - filtered, not flooded.
Vape & smoke sensors
Discrete sensors in toilets, changing rooms and storage areas detect vape aerosols, THC markers and elevated noise. The corridor camera timestamp tells you who walked in - the sensor tells you what happened next.
Hallway congestion alerts
AI flags abnormal crowding at lesson change - canteen queues, stairwell pinch-points, fire-exit blockages - before a tutor has to wade in.
Lockdown audio alert
Trigger a recorded or live announcement through compatible IP speakers across one site or the whole trust. Site-wide lockdown, single-block evacuation, parents' evening close-up - one button, named user logged.
Aggressive-tone & shouting
Audio analytics flag raised voices and aggressive-tone events in playgrounds and corridors. Pastoral team gets a notification, not a corridor walk-around.
Propped-open & tampered
Fire doors propped open, cameras covered or moved, access points held - all surface as named events on the same timeline as the footage.
Out-of-hours noise
Glass-break, drilling, and skateboard-on-railings events alert the keyholder direct - so the school doesn't find out from the head's 6am call on Monday.
Pupil IDs at the door. Visitor plates on the drive.
Pickup hour is the riskiest moment of the school day. TetherX brings ANPR on the gate camera and door-entry on the pupil ID into the same timeline as the safeguarding feed - so the front office sees the whole picture, not three half-pictures.
Pupil & staff IDs as entry passes
Existing ID cards (or phones) become the entry pass for staff doors, sixth-form study blocks and after-hours clubs. Revoke a leaver in seconds; export an attendance audit for a safeguarding file without ringing the access vendor.
ANPR on the gate & car park
Every vehicle in and out of the gate gets a plate read. Pickup-list whitelist, contractor watchlist, persistent-trespasser blacklist - all cross-referenced against a corridor or front-office camera in the same view.
Visitors, contractors & restricted-area entry
Visitor-management integrations log who is on site against the camera that saw them arrive - handy for the inspection, essential for a LADO referral months later. The gate or reception camera also captures every entry into restricted areas - server rooms, exam-paper stores, EYFS blocks - so footage and access event sit on one timeline, with no cross-referencing two systems.
From the village primary to the multi-academy trust
TetherX is open by design: the kit your last installer fitted keeps working, and the trust IT manager keeps one platform across every site - not a spreadsheet of recorder logins per academy.
Trust Head Office, Individual Heads, And The Caretaker
A multi-academy trust does not work like a corporate chain - heads run their own schools and the trust safeguarding lead audits across all of them. TetherX scopes per-academy, per-role, per-camera. Site manager only sees the gate. Head sees their school. CEO sees the estate. The DSL sees what they're named on.
- Per-academy scope - heads see their site, not the whole trust
- Trust-wide safeguarding role - DSL audit across every academy
- Caretaker / site team scope - operational cameras only, no pastoral feeds
Keep The Cameras In The Buildings That Already Have Them
TetherX is open by design. The TetherBox bridge connects to 1,000+ integrations and any ONVIF device, so the cameras across the trust keep working - no rip-and-replace, no capital write-off, no PFI-era recorder you can't touch. Add cloud, AI and a safeguarding-ready audit log to the kit you already paid for.
- Works with the cameras already on the wall - 1,000+ integrations and ONVIF
- TetherBox bridge installs in 5 min per site - no half-term shutdown needed
- Per-camera and per-disk health monitoring across every academy in the trust
The questions after the safeguarding tour
Once the DSL is happy, the trust IT manager and the head want to know the rest: how do we search a term of footage, what about patches, who deters the kids on the field at 9pm, where does the data sit, and can we tighten retention when policy changes.
Search a term of footage with smart filters
Smart video search lets a DSL or pastoral lead filter every camera and every academy by object, colour, zone and time - a person in red near the south gate after 3pm - instead of scrubbing four recorders. The audit log captures the query and the named user.
No per-camera patch windows
Platform updates and security patches roll out from the cloud. No firmware-night scheduled during half-term, no spreadsheet of recorder versions per academy. The trust IT lead gets one platform always up to date, without a maintenance window per site.
Audio talkdown to deter trespass & vandalism
Trigger a live or recorded announcement through compatible IP speakers - "you are on school property after hours, this is being recorded" - the moment after-hours motion fires on the back-field or the science block. Most kids leave; the head doesn't get the 6am call.
Cloud, on-prem or hybrid - your choice
Store on the TetherBox at the school, in UK-region cloud, or both for redundancy. The bridge keeps recording locally if the school broadband drops, then syncs once it's back. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit; cloud infrastructure is ISO 27001 / SOC 2 attested at the infra level via Wasabi.
Change retention & resolution when policy changes
A new safeguarding policy, a DPA review, an insurer asking for more retention on the gate camera - update retention windows, resolution and which analytics run per camera from the dashboard. No engineer visit, no per-recorder reconfigure.
Same view on phone, laptop, control-room screen
A DSL on a school-issued iPad, a head on the laptop at home, a site manager on the control-room monitor - same login, same scope, same audit log. Trust head office sees every academy on one screen without needing a VPN per site.
Incident to safeguarding lead, on the record
Corridor, sports hall, gate - safeguarding-ready.
Whole site under one named-user audit.
Education platform brief
Get the education platform brief by email.
What TetherX is, how it works with KCSIE / DPA-2018 workflows, what it replaces in a multi-academy trust, and what a per-site rollout looks like. PDF, in your inbox before you go.
No sales call; your email stays with us. We route serious enquiries through accredited local TetherX installers.
How TetherX stands out for schools and trusts
From the school gate to the safeguarding file, on one platform - across a single school or a multi-academy trust.
One platform, one bill
Video, access control and intruder alerts on one dashboard, one app, one bill - not three systems from three vendors.
Records through any outage
The TetherBox records full-rate on-site. A school-broadband drop never loses footage - it syncs when the link returns.
Your retention, full 4K
Set retention per camera at full 4K - longer on incident-prone areas, short elsewhere, with selective cloud to control trust budget. No pricing-band retention cap.
Keep your own ARC
Connect your existing monitoring station for out-of-hours response - Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages and others. Any ARC software can connect via a generic link - no special integration required. No forced SOC switch.
Built in the UK and Australia
Built in the UK and Australia. Local representatives in Canada and India. EU, North America and APAC supported. Your data stays in your region (UK, AU, CA, IN, EU, NA, APAC).
Ringfence legacy cameras
Existing cameras (including Hikvision and Dahua) stay reachable behind the TetherBox, off the public Internet - phase NDAA-compliant replacement on your budget cycle, with no vendor lock-in. NDAA-ready options include Hanwha Vision, Axis, Avigilon, Pelco, Bosch.
Safeguarding-first, by design
Built around your safeguarding duty and the workflows schools and trusts actually run.
Safeguarding and KCSIE
Built around your safeguarding duty under Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and UK GDPR for pupil data - TetherX is the evidence layer, with role-scoped access and an audit trail for every view.
Vape & smoke detection Coming soon
Vape and smoke sensors in washrooms and changing areas, surfaced on the same timeline as the camera, via our open API. Target devices include HALO, Triton and Soter FlySense.
Audio talk-down, built in
Live or recorded talk-down is built into the TetherBox and works with Axis, Zenitel, Bosch, 2N, Algo and Barix speakers - deter trespass and after-hours intrusion.
Trust-wide rollup across academies
Organisations and sub-organisations let a multi-academy trust scope every academy as its own site under one trust dashboard. Trust DSL and DPO see across the estate; each academy DSL sees only their school. New academies come online by adding a TetherBox bridge - same audit log, same KCSIE workflow, no per-site rebuild.
What schools and trusts ask before they switch
DSL still chasing a USB stick from the site manager before the parent meeting?
Pull the clip in seconds, share a signed link with the LADO - audit log writes itself.
A TetherX-accredited local installer scopes your school or trust and quotes a project price.
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Tell us roughly how many sites, gates and cameras you have. We route your enquiry direct to a TetherX-accredited installer who knows education estates - no central sales call.
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