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How safe platform design can protect your users from online harms and prepare your business or organisation for future legislation.
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.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
How to meet your new sponsor and their family, while staying safe online. Also information about how to stay safe in the UK.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to live stream, or view live streams by others.
This is the official one-stop shop for businesses on child online safety.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Online Centres Network offers free internet access, computer training courses for beginners and advice getting online - often free, or at low cost
Find out your VAT obligations if you use an online marketplace to sell goods in the UK.
UK customers may not be able to access their online content services when they visit the EU.
How online marketplaces will deal with VAT for goods from overseas that are sold to customers in the UK.
How to asses whether your pupils or students need help accessing the internet and resources available to help with access and safeguarding.
This page brings together advice from social media platforms about online security.
Find out how to work out what VAT to charge when goods are sold if you’re an online marketplace operator.
Find out how internet scams work and what to be aware of - misleading websites, report website fraud, suspicious communication and phishing
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
Find out how GOV.UK One Login will apply to you and when you can expect to start using it.
The UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) is a collaborative forum through which government, the tech community and the third sector work together to ensure the UK is the safest place in the world to be online. UKCIS is part...
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