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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.
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.
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.
Find out what online harms are, how to manage them, and where to report them if they occur.
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 page provides a collection of online media literacy resources and events.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
Learn about your responsibilities if you own or manage an online platform or service.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to live stream, or view live streams by others.
Find out how internet scams work and what to be aware of - misleading websites, report website fraud, suspicious communication and phishing
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
Guidance for defence personnel on the use of social media
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
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.
This page lists the assistive software and web browsers that are compaitble with the suite of civil service online tests.
Check if someone selling medicines online in Northern Ireland is allowed to do so by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
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