Quick guide to illegal content codes of practice
Published: 9 November 2023
Last updated: 4 July 2025
One way services can keep their users safe is to adopt the measures in our codes of practices. Find out what measures we've proposed in our codes.
Statement: Protecting children from harms online
Published: 24 April 2025
Last updated: 4 July 2025
Our protection of children policy Statement includes our full guidance, Codes of Practice and other documents relating to online services' duties under the Online Safety Act.
Enforcement Programme to monitor compliance with the illegal content risk assessment duties and record keeping duties
Published: 3 March 2025
Last updated: 3 July 2025
Ofcom is today opening a programme of work, or ‘enforcement programme’ to monitor whether providers are complying with their illegal content risk assessment duties and record keeping duties under the Online Safety Act (the “Act”).
Pushing platforms to go further: Ofcom sets out more online protections
Published: 30 June 2025
The new measures continue Ofcom’s implementation of the Online Safety Act. They build on our illegal harms and children’s safety codes of practice, which are already in place and being enforced.
Consultation: Online Safety - Additional Safety Measures
Published: 30 June 2025
This consultation sets out Ofcom’s latest proposals to strengthen our Codes of Practice for providers of online services, as part of our role under the Online Safety Act 2023.
Ofcom's approach to implementing the Online Safety Act
Published: 26 October 2023
Last updated: 30 June 2025
Our plans for putting online safety laws into practice, and what we expect from tech firms.
Statement: Online Safety - fees and penalties
Published: 24 October 2024
Last updated: 26 June 2025
Ofcom is publishing its policy statement regarding the implementation of the online safety fees and penalties regime.
The Manosphere unmasked
Published: 13 June 2025
With growing concern over the potential for online communities to promote misogyny, new research, commissioned by Ofcom, explores how men come to engage with the manosphere, the role it plays in their lives, and how it shapes their views and behaviour.
Investigation into the provider of Krakenfiles and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content
Published: 10 June 2025
We are investigating whether the provider of Krakenfiles has failed/is failing to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023.
Investigation into the provider of Nippyspace and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content
Published: 10 June 2025
We are investigating whether the provider of Nippyspace has failed/is failing to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023.