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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.
What local authorities need to do to place a child under 13 in a secure children’s home, and guidance on when it is appropriate to do so.
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.
Children will be better protected from sexual predators under plans being brought forward by the Home Secretary.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Statistics on secure children’s homes, including the number of children they accommodate as of 31 March each year.
Information about the SFPC programme to help safely reduce the number of children entering care.
This policy framework sets out statutory safeguarding duties for secure settings and escort providers in the Youth Custody Service (YCS).
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.
Why children are sent to custody, what it's like, visiting, advice and support
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a children’s home or secure children’s home.
Government amendments to the Online Safety Bill will bolster protections for children, empower adults and make it easier to put online abusers behind bars.
This policy framework sets out rules and guidance on the use of approved restraint techniques and restrictive physical interventions for staff at secure settings and escort providers in the Youth Custody Service (YCS).
Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate statistics cover assaults, self-harm, use of force, separations, and deaths in the Children and Young People Secure Estate in England and Wales.
Home Secretary calls on Meta to reconsider plans on detecting child sexual abuse.
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