Campaigners from local and national organisations have made suggestions on ways Guernsey could protect children from accessing harmful content online. The UK’s Online Safety Act require websites containing pornographic content to have age verification checks, or they could face fines of up to £18m or 10% of the company’s global revenue. Guernsey currently does not...Read More

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation unanimously advanced the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) on Wednesday, moving the online child safety bill one step closer to a Senate vote while leaving unresolved differences with the House of Representatives. KOSA would require covered online platforms to exercise reasonable care to prevent and...Read More

The municipality of Goesdorf announced on social media that it is now forbidden to ride “electric scooters, quads and other motorised vehicles (MVE) in schoolyards, playgrounds or similar public places”. The decision, however, did not come out of the blue, as Mayor Jean-Paul Mathay confirmed to RTL. In recent weeks, young people had repeatedly been...Read More

Key Facts: Energizer has launched its new Ultimate Child Shield™ coin lithium batteries, which are the world’s only coin lithium batteries that prevent ingestion burns if swallowed, using a proprietary titanium alloy to stop any chemical reaction before it starts. The product addresses a significant safety concern in Australia, where an estimated 20 children per...Read More

New Delhi: Meta is facing heightened scrutiny from Parliament’s IT Committee, with the social media giant coming under the spotlight over content moderation, child safety and the growing influence of opaque algorithms. The committee has raised questions that go beyond individual incidents, demanding greater accountability from platforms that wield enormous influence over India’s digital information...Read More

As outlined in our March edition, all early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff and volunteers must complete child safety training. Some ECEC staff and volunteers must also complete child protection training. All training must be done by Thursday 27 August 2026. The training will help create safer environments for children. It also supports consistent...Read More

Ruby O’Rourke has launched SAFE for child care centres and other child-facing services across Australia. The platform was developed over 12 years. SAFE is designed to help organisations identify children who may be at risk by collecting routine behavioural observations and analysing them as patterns over time. It uses machine learning and natural language processing...Read More

Australia’s national child safety reforms have reached another significant milestone, with the release of the Advanced Child Safety training for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. Available now through the Australian Government’s Geccko online learning platform, the advanced training represents the next stage of the mandatory national child safety training package, helping educators, leaders and...Read More

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-sponsored Child Passenger Safety on School Buses National Training returns to the 2026 Transporting Students with Disabilities and Special Needs Conference and Trade Show but on a new day. The all-day, hands-on training is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Dallas-Frisco Convention...Read More

Content notification on self-harm, child sexual abuse and exploitation In its latest financial report, Roblox Corp lauds its safety tools, including proactive age-checks to access communications as well as age-based accounts, as a pathway to continue to set a standard for digital safety—despite ongoing legal pressure from state governments and parents of children abused on...Read More