Project overview

UKCCIS has launched universal guidelines for providers so that they can provide consistent internet safety messages for parents and children on their services. The work to produce the guidelines was led by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and the advice was launched on Safer Internet Day February 2012. 

Project members

Board champion: Peter Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)

Project lead: Jonathan Baggaley, Head of Education, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)

Project representatives include:

  • BBC
  • BeatBullying
  • British Telecom (BT)
  • Childnet
  • Children’s Independent Television (CITV)
  • Department for Education
  • Digital Youth Online
  • Everything Everywhere
  • Facebook
  • Get Safe Online
  • Home Office
  • Marie Collins Foundation
  • Microsoft
  • Ofcom
  • Online Youth Outreach
  • Sky
  • Symantec
  • TalkTalk
  • TES
  • The British Recorded Music Industry (BPI)
  • Virgin Media
  • Vodafone
  • WiseKids

Next steps

CEOP will continue to lead this work and the group will now drive up use of the advice, by using UKCCIS networks to encourage providers to use it. The group will also look at how parent and child reports can be handled more effectively by providers. In addition, the group will improve the market for internet safety resources in schools. It will do this by creating a set of principles by which educational publishers can consider entering the market, and by which schools can know that the resources will be high quality.  Please see associated resources for the advice on child internet safety 1.0 – universal guidelines for providers.