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The new Online Safety Act (OSA) and existing VSP regulation place duties on relevant online services to protect their users from illegal content and children from certain harmful content.

This document details our progress since we published our last annual plan in April 2023. We are proud of all we have achieved over the last 18 months across a range of disciplines including policy, research, evaluation, commissioning activities for communities and working with platforms.

Ofcom’s Behavioural Insights Hub ran its first in-house online trial this year, and we’re looking to do more.

Information about how we regulate Channel 4 in the UK, including our latest reports and reviews.

A guide to some of Ofcom’s most important telecoms regulations, guidance and voluntary schemes – ones that every phone or broadband provider should know about.

The General Conditions of Entitlement are the regulatory conditions that all providers of electronic communications networks and services must comply with if they want to provide services in the UK.