Sessions
▼ Introduction – a safer life online for children in the UK
An introduction to how we can deliver a safe life online for children in the UK by working together. Hear from Ofcom leaders about our strategy to protect children online, the change we expect to see, and how we're working with industry. This session outlines the harms children face online and how the new rules require online services to take action.
Session Highlights:
- Introduction from the Ofcom leadership team
- Setting the context: outlining the harms children face online, and our online safety strategy
- Overview of the new protection of children rules now in force and key deadlines
- How we're working with industry and our approach to enforcement
▶ Explained – content harmful to children
This session introduces the types of content harmful to children covered by the online safety rules. We outline what constitutes eating disorder content, suicide and self-harm content, pornographic content, violent content and other types, and the impact they can have for children. We explain the different categories that the Act applies to this content and what that means for you.
Session Highlights:
- Find out about content harmful to children and its impact
- What you need to know about Primary Priority Content, Priority Content and Non-Designated Content
- Q&A session
▶ How to do your children's risk assessment
Starting with a reminder of the children's risk assessment duties under the Act, this session provides practical advice on how to complete your first assessment. We explain the process step-by-step with demonstration of our new digital toolkit (available online in late May). We also highlight the similarities and differences to the illegal content risk assessment which you should have already completed.
Session Highlights:
- Work through a practical, step-by-step demonstration of our new children's risk assessment guidance and digital toolkit (available late May 2025).
- Understand the similarities and differences to the illegal content risk assessment
- Q&A session
▶ How to protect children – strong foundations
Safety measures that apply to all types of online services, to larger and riskier services, and those with riskier features.
Find out more about the steps you should take to protect children from harmful content. This session covers the foundational measures in our Codes of Practice that all services should take, including on governance and accountability, terms of service, complaints and reporting, and content moderation.
We also explain the safety measures we recommend for larger and higher risk services, and the additional protections for children you may need if your service has certain features such as user profiles, comments on content, and group messaging.
Session Highlights:
- Reminder of the children’s safety duties that apply to you
- How to use our Codes of Practice to comply
- What all services need to do – including on governance, terms of service, complaints and reporting, and content moderation
- Important measures if your service is large, high risk, or has certain features which could present risks to children (such as user support measures)
- Q&A session
▶ Highly Effective Age Assurance – when and how you should check the age of your users
Determining who is a child or an adult on your service to give children safer experiences
Do you need to check whether your users are children? What approach should you take to doing so? What does this mean for your service? This session on highly effective age assurance examines these questions, explaining the recommendations in our Codes of Practice. We set out who needs to carry out age assurance, who should prevent children from accessing their service, and who should use age assurance to ensure that their service provides children with a safe online experience.
Note: this session is designed for providers of user-to-user services (not search services)
Session Highlights:
- What kinds of services need to check the age of their users
- How highly effective age assurance should be implemented
- What this means for your other safety measures
- Q&A session
▶ Safer feeds – adapting your recommender systems for children
Making recommender systems safer for children
Personalised recommendations are children's main pathway to encountering harmful content online. Any provider that operates a recommender system and poses a medium or high risk of harmful content will need to configure their algorithms to filter out harmful content from children's feeds. This session explains our safety measures on recommender systems and where and how they should be applied.
Note: this session is designed for providers of user-to-user services (not search services)
Session highlights:
- Recommended safety measures for services with content recommender systems
- Q&A session