Online Safety
Recommendations related to online safety
Tag overview
recommendation across 2 inquiries
Across 2 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
School monitoring and filtering systems guidance
The Department for Education should review and strengthen its guidance to schools on monitoring and filtering systems, including ensuring that the systems used are appropriate and adequate from a technical …
LCC online harms risk assessment review
Lancashire County Council should undertake a comprehensive review of how its children’s services and Early Help teams (i.e. Children and Family Wellbeing Service) assess and manage risk and online harms …
Coroner and inquiry Ofcom notification powers
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology should consider extending the powers under the Online Safety Act 2023 to enable Senior Coroners to make a notification to Ofcom to obtain …
VPN age verification
Phase 2 should consider age verification for the use of Virtual Private Network (VPN) software and other options to avoid VPNs being used to circumvent the age-related protections in the …
Pre-screening by Internet Providers
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government makes it mandatory for all regulated providers of search services and user-to-user services to pre-screen for known child sexual abuse material.
Age Verification Online
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its The Internet Investigation Report, dated March 2020) that the UK government introduces legislation requiring providers of online services and social media platforms …
WeProtect international action on CSAM
The government should press the WeProtect Global Alliance to take more action internationally to ensure that those countries hosting indecent images of children implement legislation and procedures to prevent access …
Online age verification legislation
The government should introduce legislation requiring providers of online services and social media platforms to implement more stringent age verification techniques on all relevant devices.
Publish interim online harms code of practice
The government should publish, without further delay, the interim code of practice in respect of child sexual abuse and exploitation as proposed by the Online Harms White Paper (published April …
Pre-screen material before upload
The government should require industry to pre-screen material before it is uploaded to the internet to prevent access to known indecent images of children.