Schools have been urged to move beyond responding to safety incidents after they occur and adopt systems that identify, assess and address potential risks before children are harmed. The call was made at Child Safety Outreach 3.0, convened by Adejumoke Sangolana, founder of SafeKids Foundation, where safety professionals and education stakeholders advocated a more structured...Read More

Hi TCPAWorld! On September 10, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of new laws aimed at protecting children from the perceived dangers of social media and AI products. Instead of focusing only on the content children see online, the laws also address features designed to keep users scrolling and interacting. At the center...Read More

The debate has been given fresh momentum by the government’s Growing Up in the Online World consultation updated last month, one of the largest on children’s online safety ever in the UK. More than 116,000 parents, children, teachers and experts took part, with nine in 10 parents supporting restrictions on social media for under-16s and...Read More

Meta’s decision follows growing pressure from the Centre to ensure social media platforms take proactive measures to protect children online. Government sources described the agreement as a “first step”, while stressing that more action is needed. The government has maintained that online safety of children is a fundamental and non-negotiable principle for social media platforms...Read More

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Photo by: Malin Wunderlich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images When Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission President, takes the stage in the European Parliament on Wednesday for her annual State of the European Union speech, the German politician will finally get what she has longed for: a Continent-wide social...Read More

Apple first previewed a new set of child safety features at WWDC in June, and parents can now start using them with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27. The update gives families more control over which apps children can access, what websites they can visit, who they can communicate with, and how much time...Read More

A week of advising parents and caregivers to get their car seats checked by certified child passenger safety technicians. (ATLANTA) – The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) reminds all parents and caregivers to have their child’s car safety seat checked on a regular basis to make sure it is properly installed. The National Highway Traffic...Read More

The Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Aisling Parkes, has warned that introducing an age limit at which children can set up their own social media accounts carries the risk of blocking young people from having an input and restricts freedom of expression. According to international obligations, under the Committee on the Rights of the Child,...Read More

Last month in Savar, a father noticed an alarming change in his seven-year-old son after he returned from his madrasa: withdrawn and ill. The boy had been sent there to learn the Quran and live under the care of adults his family had trusted. Instead, according to a case filed by his father, he was...Read More

MONROE, Conn. — As a 13-year-old boy who lost his father at an early age, Stephen Mills’ trust in the director of Camp Ella Fohs in New Milford grew in the summer of 1968. The director had become like a father figure, lavishing him with attention, seeking him out for long walks, giving him small...Read More