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This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
Schools are responsible for your child's safety while they're at school or on a school trip
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Help your children to understand what the risks associated with using social media are.
OPSS is leading a fresh campaign to raise awareness among parents and carers about potential hazards to children associated with swallowing small magnets, button batteries, loose/small toy parts and imitation food.
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.
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
This is the official one-stop shop for businesses on child online safety.
Information on the risks end-to-end encryption poses to children if it is implemented on social media messaging platforms without robust safety measures.
Resources to support blind cord safety and raise awareness.
Legacy resources to support button battery safety and raise awareness produced for a product safety campaign during 2021.
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.
Understand how to follow safeguarding procedures when planning remote education strategies and teaching remotely.
Advice for parents and carers about the main risks children may be particularly vulnerable to and information about available help and support.
Children under 10 who break the law can be given a Local Child Curfew, a Child Safety Order or can be taken into care
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