Support Christopher Maddocks

Free tools for UK school IT teams — built and maintained as a community resource.

👋 Hi, I'm Christopher — Ex ANME Ambassador with years of experience supporting schools across infrastructure, networking and cyber security, including Hyper-V, Active Directory, switching, wireless and broadband.

I build free, browser-based tools to help school IT teams meet the cyber and compliance challenges the sector is facing — no accounts, no logins, no data stored, no analytics. Just open them and use them.

🛠️ The tools so far:

🛡️ Cyber Incident Response Planner — build a Cyber Incident Response Plan for your school or trust, mapped to NCSC, DfE Digital Standards 2030, RPA and Ofsted.

📋 DfE Digital Standards 2030 — Self-Assessment Tool — assess your position against all 6 core DfE Digital & Technology Standards by 2030. Produces a RAG-rated results report, action plan and governor summary.

📧 School Mail Check — the free email security checker stepping into the gap left by NCSC's Mail Check after its 31 March 2026 retirement. Tests SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, BIMI, MX and DNSSEC — with everything mapped to UK schools-sector frameworks.

🎯 All three tools share the same principles:

100% free, no account needed

Runs entirely in your browser — nothing stored, nothing tracked

Outputs you can actually paste into a risk register or governor report

Mapped to the frameworks UK schools are actually held to (NCSC, DfE Digital Standards 2030, RPA, Ofsted, Cyber Essentials, KCSIE)

☕ If any of these saved you time — a beer keeps them maintained, updated, and free for the school IT community. No pressure: the tools are free whether you tip or not. Cheers! 🙌