Consultation on draft Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls
Published: 25 February 2025
Last updated: 18 September 2025
Ofcom is consulting on draft Guidance for a safer life online for women and girls.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providers of regulated online services and other relevant stakeholders including Ofcom’s statutory consultees for the draft Guidance - the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner.
Statement: Online Safety Information Gathering Guidance
Published: 26 July 2024
Last updated: 16 September 2025
We have issued a statement on guidance to help services, and other stakeholders, to understand when and how we might use these powers.
Online safety industry bulletin - September 2025
Published: 9 September 2025
This is the third edition of Ofcom’s online safety industry bulletin and the first since new rules came into force to protect children online in the UK. In that time, Ofcom has seen change across industry, with many websites and apps putting in place age checks, alongside other new measures.
Consultation: Draft guidance for super-complaints under the Online Safety Act 2023
Published: 8 September 2025
The purpose of super-complaints is to allow such organisations to bring robust evidence and facts to our attention about the most significant online harms and restrictions on free expression arising on regulated online services.
Consultation: Online safety fees- Notification guidance
Published: 1 September 2025
Ofcom is publishing a consultation on guidance for providers of regulated services under the Online Safety Act 2023 (the Act) to help them in the process of making a fees regime notification under section 83 of the Act.
Statement: Online Safety - fees and penalties
Published: 24 October 2024
Last updated: 1 September 2025
Ofcom is publishing its policy statement regarding the implementation of the online safety fees and penalties regime.
Deepfake Defences 2 – The Attribution Toolkit
Published: 11 July 2025
Last updated: 22 August 2025
Deepfakes are AI-generated audio-visual content that is deliberately designed to misrepresent someone or something.
Protecting people from online suicide and self-harm material
Published: 5 March 2025
Last updated: 22 August 2025
In the latest in a series of explainers on specific online harms, Ofcom sets out what online service providers operating in the UK need to do to protect people from suicide and self-harm content.
Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content
Published: 10 June 2025
Last updated: 13 August 2025
We are initiating an investigation to determine whether the online discussion board 4chan has failed—or is currently failing—to comply with its obligations under the Online Safety Act 2023.
Statement: Protecting people from illegal harms online
Published: 16 December 2024
Last updated: 30 July 2025
Our illegal harms policy statement includes our full guidance, Codes of Practice and other documents relating to online services' duties under the Online Safety Act.