Protecting children

Online safety watchdog, Ofcom, has warned tech firms they only have weeks left to put in place measures to stop illegal intimate images and deepfakes from spreading on their platforms.

This research examined how livestreaming service design influences user behaviour and online safety, for users watching and creating livestreams using a behavioural audit methodology.

Latest versions of Ofcom’s online safety regulatory documents and guidance, as well as links to previous, superseded versions.

This page provides an overview and links to our findings from our livestreaming research, including two qualitative reports and one quantiative report into children who create and children who view livesteams.

Ofcom has been conducting research to understand children’s experiences of communications online, including any uncomfortable or unwanted contact and receiving sexualised messages.

Women and girls’ online safety is a priority for Ofcom. This page provides a summary of the work we are undertaking in this space.

This Call for Evidence invites interested stakeholders to provide Ofcom with evidence and insights about women and girls’ online experiences since the publication of our Guidance in November 2025.

We want to help parents navigate the ever-changing world of online video games and have set out some simple steps you can take for greater peace of mind while your child plays online.

Ofcom has today fined an online porn provider £700,000 for not having age checks in place, and a further £30,000 for failing to respond to a legally binding information request.

On 17 March 2025, we opened an enforcement programme to assess the measures being taken by providers of file-sharing and file-storage services that present particular risks of harm to UK users from image-based CSAM to ensure users do not encounter, and offenders are not able to disseminate, such content on their services.