Tag

Online Safety

Recommendations related to online safety

10 recommendations 50% accepted

Tag overview

Government Response
Accepted (3)
Accepted in Part (2)
Not Accepted (1)
Awaiting Response (4)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 2 inquiries

Across 2 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations

10 total
SP21 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

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 …

Department for Education
SP22 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

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 …

Lancashire County Council
SP23 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

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 …

Department for Science, …
SP24 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

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 …

Southport Inquiry Phase 2
FR-12 Accepted in Part IICSA

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.

- In May 2023, the government accepted this recommendation, noting that the Online Safety Bill would hold companies to account for CSAM on their services …
UK Government
FR-20 Accepted in Part IICSA

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 …

- In May 2023, the government accepted this recommendation, noting the Online Safety Bill required companies to consider age verification (Government Response to IICSA Final …
UK Government
105 Accepted IICSA

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 …

- In November 2020, the UK government committed to continue working with the WeProtect Global Alliance to combat indecent images of children, including through the …
UK Government
106 Accepted IICSA

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.

- On 12 May 2021, the government published a draft Online Safety Bill including provisions requiring providers of regulated services to consider age verification techniques …
UK Government
40 Accepted IICSA

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 …

- On 15 December 2020, the UK government published the Interim Code of Practice on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (Government Response, Home Office, December …
UK Government
71 Not Accepted IICSA

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.

- In November 2020, the UK government stated that it had launched the Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse alongside the …
UK Government