Quick guide to implementing highly effective age assurance
Published: 23 February 2024
Last updated: 16 January 2025
The Online Safety Act has introduced new rules on robust age checks that services must follow to protect children
‘Adults Only’: what to do if your online service allows pornography
Published: 16 July 2024
Last updated: 17 December 2024
If you allow pornography on your online service, this page is for you. It explains what you need to know about the Online Safety Act and what you need to check to ensure you follow the rules.
Time for tech firms to act: UK online safety regulation comes into force
Published: 16 December 2024
People in the UK will be better protected from illegal harms online, as tech firms are now legally required to start taking action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms, and make them safer by design.
Quick guide to illegal content codes of practice
Published: 9 November 2023
Last updated: 16 December 2024
One way services can keep their users safe is to adopt the measures in our codes of practices. Find out what measures we've proposed in our draft codes.
Consultation: Protecting people from illegal harms online
Published: 9 November 2023
Last updated: 16 December 2024
This consultation focuses on our proposals for how internet services that enable the sharing of user-generated content ('user-to-user services') and search services should approach their new duties relating to illegal content.
Statement: Protecting people from illegal harms online
Published: 16 December 2024
This is the first of Ofcom’s policy Statements that Ofcom, as regulator of the Online Safety Act, will publish as part of our work to establish the new regulations.
Guide for services: complying with the Online Safety Act
Published: 27 February 2024
Last updated: 16 December 2024
The Online Safety Act makes businesses responsible for keeping people, especially children, safe online. Here’s what you need to know and do now.
Consultation: Online Safety Information Guidance
Published: 26 July 2024
Last updated: 16 December 2024
We are consulting on draft guidance to help services, and other stakeholders, to understand when and how we might use these powers.
Consultation: Technology Notices
Published: 16 December 2024
The consultation includes our policy proposals for minimum standards of accuracy against which a technology must be accredited before we can require its use under a Notice, and guidance to providers about how we propose to use this power.
Check how to comply with the illegal content rules
Published: 16 December 2024
The tool will be divided into four steps that follow Ofcom’s risk assessment guidance. Following these steps will help you to comply with the illegal content risk assessment duties, and the linked safety duties and record-keeping and review duties.