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Letter from DSIT Secretary of State Michelle Donelan to Ofcom Chief Executive Dame Melanie Dawes regarding the categorisation of services under the Online Safety Act.

• Updated: 25 March 2024

• Letter from DSIT Secretary of State to Ofcom: categorisation of services under the Online Safety Act

  The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP Secretary of State for Science, Innovation…

UK Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and any other child sexual abuse material.

• Updated: 5 March 2024

Memorandum of Understanding to help amplify the world class online safety regimes of both countries.

• Updated: 21 February 2024

This circular sets out detail of the new criminal offences in the Online Safety Act 2023.

• Updated: 31 January 2024

New offences have been introduced to criminalise cyberflashing, fake news intended to cause non-trivial harm and other online abuse.

• Updated: 31 January 2024

The Call for Evidence for the independent Pornography Review launches today.

• Updated: 11 January 2024

Suyer-complaints process is designed to help Ofcom stay on top of systemic harmful trends and emerging threats.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

A speech delivered by Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, Michelle Donelan, at the Family Online Safety Institute's annual conference.

• Updated: 14 November 2023

Raft of voices below have thrown their support behind Act protecting children from online harm, while empowering adults with more choices over what they see online.

• Updated: 27 October 2023

Online Safety Act receives Royal Assent putting rules to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online into law.

• Updated: 26 October 2023

Readout from the Technology Secretary's roundtable with social media companies on 11 October 2023.

• Updated: 11 October 2023

Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on the Rights of People of African Descent. Delivered by UK's Ambassador to the WTO and UN, Simon Manley.

• Updated: 6 October 2023

Online Safety Bill passes its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law.

• Updated: 19 September 2023

Technology Secretary meets nation’s best-known personalities to discuss new laws which would make the UK the safest place in the world to be online.

• Updated: 12 September 2023

Government pledge to reduce England’s suicide rate within 2 and a half years with launch of new national suicide prevention strategy.

• Updated: 11 September 2023

The amendment, which will be tabled in Parliament today will crack down on animal torture content online.

• Updated: 7 September 2023

New rules to crack down on illegal ads, influencer scams and protect children online

• Updated: 25 July 2023

Review will investigate gaps in UK regulation that allows exploitation or abuse to take place online, as well as identifying barriers to enforcing criminal law.

• Updated: 3 July 2023

Government amendments to the Online Safety Bill will bolster protections for children, empower adults and make it easier to put online abusers behind bars.

• Updated: 30 June 2023

UK safety tech sector goes from strength to strength in most recent analysis.

• Updated: 15 June 2023