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Find out what online harms are, how to manage them, and where to report them if they occur.
How safe platform design can protect your users from online harms and prepare your business or organisation for future legislation.
Guidance for defence personnel on the use of social media
If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
This page provides a collection of online media literacy resources and events.
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.
Online Centres Network offers free internet access, computer training courses for beginners and advice getting online - often free, or at low cost
This page brings together advice from social media platforms about online security.
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.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to live stream, or view live streams by others.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
How to asses whether your pupils or students need help accessing the internet and resources available to help with access and safeguarding.
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.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA)'s work aims to tackle potentially harmful online selling practices.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
A research paper from OFCOM
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