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Letter from DSIT Secretary of State Michelle Donelan to Ofcom Chief Executive Dame Melanie Dawes regarding the categorisation of services under the Online Safety Act.
If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
How safe platform design can protect your users from online harms and prepare your business or organisation for future legislation.
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.
Find out your VAT obligations if you use an online marketplace to sell goods in the UK.
Find out what online harms are, how to manage them, and where to report them if they occur.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
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.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
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 establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
Find out how to work out what VAT to charge when goods are sold if you’re an online marketplace operator.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
How to meet your new sponsor and their family, while staying safe online. Also information about how to stay safe in the UK.
This page brings together advice from social media platforms about online security.
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA)'s work aims to tackle potentially harmful online selling practices.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
This page provides a collection of online media literacy resources and events.
Online Centres Network offers free internet access, computer training courses for beginners and advice getting online - often free, or at low cost
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
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