Consultations and statements

This consultation sets out our proposals to amend the blocking and muting user accounts and disabling comments measures in the Illegal Content Codes of Practice. We are proposing to bring providers of certain smaller user-to-user services that are likely to be accessed by children into scope of these measures where they have relevant risks and functionalities.

Today we are publishing a major policy Statement for the protection of children online.

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.

Our proposals for how internet services should approach their new duties relating to content that is harmful to children.

Today we are publishing our Age Assurance and Children’s Access Statement, marking the first step in our Protection of Children work.

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.

We have issued a statement on guidance to help services, and other stakeholders, to understand when and how we might use these powers.

Ofcom is consulting on draft Guidance for a safer life online for women and girls. The consultation is aimed at providers of regulated online services and other relevant stakeholders including Ofcom’s statutory consultees for the draft Guidance - the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner.

Ofcom is consulting on proposals to implement the fees and penalties regime for online safety, under the Online Safety Act 2023. The consultation is aimed at providers of regulated online services and other relevant stakeholders.

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.

This page provides information about an addition to our earlier illegal harms consultation, to include animal cruelty and human torture content as types of content that platforms must tackle.

This is a call for evidence for the report that Ofcom must produce under the Act about researchers’ access to information from online services to study online safety matters.

Our draft transparency reporting guidance, which is open for consultation until 4 October 2024.

We are seeking evidence to inform the codes of practice and guidance that Ofcom produces to implement the third phase of online safety regulation.

A consultation on our draft guidance to assist providers of online services that publish or display pornographic content in complying with their age assurance and record-keeping duties under the Online Safety Act.

This is a call for evidence on the research we need to carry out to help prepare our advice for categorising regulated services under the Online Safety regime.

We will be publishing codes of practice setting out the steps platforms can take to protect children online as well as guidance on how platforms should assess risks of harms to children.

We are seeking evidence to strengthen our understanding of the range of approaches and techniques platforms can employ to help them meet their proposed duties under the Online Safety Bill.

Ofcom has published guidance for video-sharing platform (VSP) providers on the regulatory requirements to protect users from harmful material.

We have published guidance to help providers understand whether they fall within the scope of the definition of a video-sharing platform for the purposes of the Communications Act 2003.

Ofcom is seeking evidence and information related to the new requirements that will apply to video-sharing platforms.

Ofcom has published a consultation on the sharing of costs incurred by the scheme. This consultation closes on 18 September 2012.

Ofcom has published a draft code, under which ISPs would notify subscribers of allegations that their account has been used to infringe copyright and a short statutory consultation on the draft code, setting out reasons for our proposals.

A proposed code of practice which implements legislative measures aimed at reducing online copyright infringement has today been published by Ofcom, as part of its new duties under the Digital Economy Act 2010.