Investigation into an online suicide discussion forum and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content
Published: 9 April 2025
Last updated: 7 November 2025
We are investigating whether a provider of an online suicide discussion forum has failed/is failing to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023.
Call for evidence: Statutory reports on age assurance and app stores
Published: 3 November 2025
Online safety regulatory documents and guidance
Published: 23 October 2025
Latest versions of Ofcom’s online safety regulatory documents and guidance, as well as links to previous, superseded versions.
The Online Safety Act and gaming: know the risks, the rules, and how to comply
Published: 14 October 2025
Guidance for the gaming industry on how the Online Safety Act applies to these services, the risks gaming could present to users, and what to do to comply with the rules.
Ofcom issues update on Online Safety Act investigations
Published: 13 October 2025
Ofcom has today provided an update on our enforcement activity under the Online Safety Act.
Enforcement programme into measures being taken by file-sharing and file-storage services to prevent users from encountering or sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
Published: 17 March 2025
Last updated: 13 October 2025
Ofcom has opened a programme of work, or ‘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.
Consultation on draft Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls
Published: 25 February 2025
Last updated: 13 October 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Ofcom is consulting on draft Guidance for a safer life online for women and girls.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providers of regulated online services and other relevant stakeholders including Ofcom’s statutory consultees for the draft Guidance - the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner.
Enforcement Programme to protect children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance
Published: 16 January 2025
Last updated: 13 October 2025
Ofcom is opening an enforcement programme into age assurance measures across the adult sector, which will initially focus on regulated providers’ compliance with the Part 5 duties.
Protecting people in the UK from illegal online content – regardless of its origin
Published: 4 April 2025
Last updated: 13 October 2025
The Online Safety Act introduces new rules for providers of online user-to-user, search and pornography services, to help keep people in the UK safe from content which is illegal in the UK, and to protect children from the most harmful content such as pornography, suicide and self-harm material.
Investigation into Youngtek Solutions Ltd’s compliance with the duty to prevent children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance
Published: 11 September 2025
Last updated: 13 October 2025