Ofcom OSA

The Online Safety Act explained: How to comply with the rules to protect children

Guiding you through the new legal duties to protect children online - how to assess risk of harm to under 18s and the steps to take to keep them safe.

The event has now ended, but you can still access session materials and on-demand videos. Content will be available until 4th July 2025.

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Useful resources

Online Safety Act Explained FAQs
We've created an FAQ document to answer the most common questions from our February Online Safety Act event, covering scope, support for small services, and enforcement. It can be accessed here.


Protection of Children Statement, with links to summaries of our measures, a summary of our decisions alongside the full suite of regulatory documents and guidance.
On 24 April we published five volumes setting out our decisions, together with a number of regulatory documents and guidance. These can all be found via this link: Statement: Protecting children from harms online - Ofcom


Guide for services – a summary of tools and resources for industry to support compliance.
This is your gateway to our tools to check if you are in scope of the OSA, digital tools for risk assessment and a range of quick guides on illegal harms, protection of children and how to protect children from pornography: Guide for services: complying with the Online Safety Act - Ofcom

This page also includes a link to our calendar of important dates for compliance, included below:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/important-dates-for-online-safety-compliance


Helping small services navigate the Online Safety Act - Ofcom


For more information on our approach to implementing the Online Safety Act please see this page: Ofcom's approach to implementing the Online Safety Act - Ofcom
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