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The Online Safety Bill is a new set of laws to protect children and adults online. It will make social media companies more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
How safe platform design can protect your users from online harms and prepare your business or organisation for future legislation.
This guide is to help you and your business understand issues around data protection and privacy. It is intended for organisations that provide online services likely to be accessed by children.
If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
Guidance for defence personnel on the use of social media
This is the official one-stop shop for businesses on child online safety.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
Find out what online harms are, how to manage them, and where to report them if they occur.
One hour GDS Academy online course on tools and techniques for leading interactive and engaging meetings in virtual rooms.
How to meet your new sponsor and their family, while staying safe online. Also information about how to stay safe in the UK.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
This page brings together research commissioned by DCMS related to onlines harms. It informs government policy to prevent harm related to online activities. It also contains research by the UK Council for Internet Safety.
This page provides a collection of online media literacy resources and events.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to live stream, or view live streams by others.
This is a guide for providers of social media and interactive services and includes examples of good practice and advice and information about how to keep children safe online
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
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