Guidance and regulation

The Media Literacy Programme Fund awards grant funding to organisations undertaking media literacy activity that tackles the media literacy challenges in the Online Media Literacy Strategy.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 3 August 2022

Amendments made to the Online Safety Bill ahead of report stage at the House of Lords.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
• Updated: 30 June 2023

Advice and guidance on how to protect yourself and your business from fraud and cyber crime.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 27 April 2020

Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2021

The government has made a number of amendments affecting the illegal content duties at clauses 8 and 9 of the Online Safety Bill.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 23 August 2022

Actions developed by the Five Country Ministerial to counter online child sexual exploitation and abuse.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 24 March 2022

Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2021

Learn about your responsibilities if you own or manage an online platform or service.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2021

Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2021

Advice and guidance to help parents and carers to keep children safe online.

• From: Department for Education and 3 others
• Updated: 22 February 2021

We've announced new rules for tech firms around online harms — below are answers to questions surrounding the Full Government Response.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 2 others
• Updated: 15 December 2020

DCMS is launching the Media Literacy Taskforce Fund to award grant funding to projects piloting new methods of delivering media literacy interventions to ‘hard to reach’ citizens.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 12 August 2022

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.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 27 September 2021

This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2021

Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2021

The government has made a number of amendments to the Online Safety Bill in relation to content published by a recognised news publisher.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 23 August 2022

A best practice guide for supporting young people’s online safety and experiences

• From: UK Council for Internet Safety
• Updated: 10 March 2022

Guidelines and best practice for the trusted flagger relationship between helplines and online service providers.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
• Updated: 11 April 2023

Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2021

Information on the risks end-to-end encryption poses to children if it is implemented on social media messaging platforms without robust safety measures.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 September 2023