OSA regime: final documents
- The Online Safety Act 2023 - published 30 October 2023
- Online Safety Act - legislation.gov.uk page with links to the Act, commencement orders, regulations etc.
Ofcom codes and guidance
- Statement: protection children from harms online - FINAL CODES AND GUIDANCE - published 24 April 2025
- Protection of children codes of practice and explanatory memorandum - CODES (Ofcom/DSIT) - published and laid in Parliament 24 April 2025
- Children's risk assessment guidance and risk profiles - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - IN FORCE 24 April 2025
- Children's register of risks - 24 April 2025
- Children's access assessment guidance - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 24 April 2025
- Guidance on highly effective age assurance for part 3 services - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 24 April 2025
- Updated record keeping and review guidance - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - IN FORCE 24 April 2025
- Statement: information gathering guidance - FINAL GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - published 26 February 2025
- Statement: age assurance and children’s access - FINAL GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - published 16 January 2025
- Age assurance guidance for part 5 services - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 16 January 2025
- Age assurance guidance for part 3 services - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 16 January 2025
- Children’s access assessment guidance - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 16 January 2025
- Statement: protecting people from illegal harms online - FINAL CODES AND GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - published 16 December 2024
- Illegal content codes of practice and explanatory memorandum - CODES (Ofcom/DSIT) - published and laid in Parliament 17 December 2024
- Illegal content risk assessment guidance - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - IN FORCE 16 December 2024
- Record keeping and review guidance - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 16 December 2024
- Illegal content judgements guidance - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 16 December 2024
- Online safety enforcement guidance - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 16 December 2024
- Guidance on content communicated ‘publicly’ and ‘privately’ - GUIDANCE (Ofcom) - 16 December 2024
- Final illegal harms codes
- Final code of practice for user-to-user services - IN FORCE 17 March 2025
- Final code of practice for search - IN FORCE 17 March 2025
OSA: Regulations
- Online Safety Act 2023 (Category 1, Category 2A and Category 2B Threshold Conditions) Regulations - IN FORCE 27 February 2025
OSA: Enforcement
- Letter to Part 3 services that allow pornography - published 24 April 2025
- Enforcement programme into measures being taken by file-sharing and file storage services to prevent users from encountering or sharing CSAM - opened 17 March 2025
- Enforcement programme to monitor compliance with the illegal content risk assessment duties and record keeping duties - opened 3 March 2025
- Enforcement programme to protect children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance - opened 16 January 2025
- Important dates for Online Safety Act compliance - published 16 December 2024
- Guidance to the regulator about fees relating to the Online Safety Act - GUIDANCE (DSIT) - published 24 May 2024
OSA: Investigations
- Investigation into Kick Online Entertainment S.A.'s compliance with illegal content risk assessment duties - opened 14 May 2025
- Investigation into Kick Online Entertainment S.A.'s compliance with a statutory information request - opened 14 May 2025
- Investigation into an online suicide discussion forum and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content - opened 9 April 2025
