How to comply with the Online Safety Act: responding to Ofcom’s requests for information
Published: 17 October 2024
Last updated: 11 April 2025
The Online Safety Act (OSA) makes businesses, and anyone else who operates a wide range of online services, legally responsible for keeping people (especially children) in the UK safe online.
Consultation: Technology Notices
Published: 16 December 2024
Last updated: 10 April 2025
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.
Investigation into an online suicide discussion forum and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content
Published: 9 April 2025
We are investigating whether a provider of an online suicide discussion forum has failed/is failing to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023.
Quick guide to illegal content codes of practice
Published: 9 November 2023
Last updated: 9 April 2025
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 codes.
Quick guide to illegal content risk assessments
Published: 9 November 2023
Last updated: 9 April 2025
Under the Online Safety Act, most regulated services will have to carry out a risk assessment. Find out what this means for you.
Ofcom investigates online suicide forum
Published: 9 April 2025
Ofcom has today launched an investigation into whether the provider of an online suicide forum has failed to comply with its duties under the UK’s Online Safety Act.
Protecting people in the UK from illegal online content – regardless of its origin
Published: 4 April 2025
The Online Safety Act introduces new rules for providers of online user-to-user, search and pornography services, to help keep people in the UK safe from content which is illegal in the UK, and to protect children from the most harmful content such as pornography, suicide and self-harm material.
Ofcom's first year of video-sharing platform regulation
Published: 20 October 2022
Last updated: 27 March 2025
Ofcom’s first report on video-sharing platforms (VSPs) sets out what we found in the first year of regulation.
Notified video-sharing platforms
Published: 11 January 2024
Last updated: 27 March 2025
A list of video-sharing platform (VSP) services that have notified to Ofcom.
Statement: Protecting people from illegal harms online
Published: 16 December 2024
Last updated: 24 March 2025
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.