Many adults who care for children worry about the impacts of AI tools like chatbots. See how you can encourage safe and supportive use.

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Parents using Instagram's child supervision tools will soon receive alerts if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm related terms on the platform.

It is the first time parent company Meta will proactively alert parents to searches by their child on Instagram for harmful material, rather than block searches and direct users to external help.

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How is your school ensuring there is a robust safeguarding-first approach to using Gen-AI?

Understand the risks associated with Gen-AI and how schools can mitigate these.

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The government will consult on whether social media should be banned for under-16s in the UK.

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AI ‘nudification’ apps are to be banned following an IWF campaign as new data reveals nearly one in five reports of nude or sexual imagery of young people involves some form of faked or digitally altered imagery.

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Ofcom has already published final Codes and risk assessment guidance on how we expect platforms to tackle illegal content and content harmful to children. Ofcom’s role is to hold tech companies to account and ensure they comply with the law, using our enforcement powers where necessary.

But Ofcom is also required to produce guidance setting out how providers can take action against harmful content and activity that disproportionately affects women and girls, in recognition of the unique risks they face.

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