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New age ratings to be introduced on Relationships, Sex and Health Education content in schools to ensure it is appropriately and sensitively taught.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
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.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) guidance on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector.
Vile abusers who rape a child will have their own parental responsibilities automatically removed under new laws.
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.
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Guide for parents and legal guardians about applications to Homes for Ukraine for children who are not travelling with or joining their parent or legal guardian.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
Guidance for sponsors about applications to Homes for Ukraine for children who are not travelling with or joining their parent or legal guardian.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
Information to help healthcare professionals make decisions about the planning and provision of services using child and maternal health data and intelligence.
The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10 years old. Children are treated differently from adults, are dealt with by youth courts and sent to special secure centres for young people.
The law does not say an age when you can leave a child on their own, but it's an offence to leave a child alone if it puts them at risk
Requirements you must meet if you are a childminder and registered with Ofsted on the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
Requirements you must meet if you are an Ofsted-registered out of school club, nursery or other type of daycare on the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance
Evidence-based frameworks providing structure for local areas to prevent unplanned teenage pregnancies and support young parents and their children.
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