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Ofcom’s online safety rules came into force on 25 July 2025, requiring technology firms to implement safety measures protecting children in the UK.

NSPCC Learning has published the latest blog in the Why language matters series. The blog explores the ‘baby blind spot’ and the importance of including babies in the language of safeguarding.

NSPCC Learning has published a CASPAR briefing summarising the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) updated Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework for England.

The NSPCC has published a news story on children being left home alone during the summer holidays.

The Crime and Policing Bill has been laid before Parliament. It includes provisions to introduce: new offences of child criminal exploitation and cuckooing (where a vulnerable person’s home is used by others to commit criminal activity).

NSPCC Learning has published a key topic page about how professionals working with children can protect them from child criminal exploitation.

The NSPCC has collaborated with the Marie Collins Foundation, Lucy Faithfull Foundation, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse and Barnardo’s to send a joint letter to the Home Sectary and Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, calling for the Government to ensure children are better protected from child sexual abuse in private messaging environments.

The NSPCC has published a news story about boys’ vulnerability to sexual extortion, or ‘sextortion’. Sexual extortion is a form of online blackmail that involves the threat of sharing nude or semi-nude images or videos to extort money or force someone to do something against their will.

The NSPCC has published a news story on contacts to its helplines concerning parental substance misuse.

The BBC has published a news story exploring the 20 recommendations that were set out by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in October 2022. The Inquiry investigated abuse in churches, schools, custodial institutions and other settings. The news story looks at what progress has been made.