Expert perspectives on child safeguarding, AI safety, and children's rights.
Topic guides: Child Safety in AI Systems · Online Safety for Children · Organisational Safeguarding
Ethics approval is not safeguarding. How to protect and include children, especially children with disabilities, at every stage of research.
Read: How to safeguard children at every stage of researchUAE schools have told parents not to photograph other pupils. How the rules compare with Europe, why AI raises the stakes and what a school image policy needs.
Read: Children's photos at school, consent and AIYoung people in Melbourne said it plainly: don't just listen to us, act. Why lived experience must change safeguarding decisions and how to show it did.
Read: What changed because we listened?Children use AI every day but rarely shape it. Why participation is a right under the UNCRC, how to reach all children, and how to safeguard the process.
Read: Why children belong in AI governance decisionsThe EU AI Act bans AI that exploits children's age, treats AI in education as high-risk and was amended in July 2026. What applies now and what comes next.
Read: What the EU AI Act means for childrenConsent ages from 13 to 16, child-friendly transparency, profiling limits, DPIAs and record fines: what GDPR requires for children's data across the EU.
Read: How GDPR protects children's data in the EUThe documents, governance roles, standards and review cycle that turn a safeguarding policy into a framework that works across countries.
Read: How to build a safeguarding policy frameworkNine stages of concrete, checkable decisions, from impact assessment and defaults to AI red-teaming and governance, for any product children use.
Read: A safety-by-design checklist for children's productsThe UN guidance behind today's children's online safety laws: what General Comment 25 says, what it asks of businesses, and how to apply it.
Read: What General Comment 25 means for organisationsA plain guide to Child Rights Impact Assessments: origins in the UNCRC, who needs one, the typical steps, outputs, and how CRIA differs from a DPIA.
Read: What a child rights impact assessment involvesAge verification, facial estimation, digital ID and more: what age assurance means, what each method costs, and what regulators now expect.
Read: What age assurance is and how it worksThe areas a child safeguarding audit tests, the standards behind it, how fieldwork works, what the report delivers and a checklist to prepare.
Read: What a child safeguarding audit coversTwo regulators, two rulebooks, one question: can you show your service is safe for children? The UK and EU regimes compared, with practical steps.
Read: UK Online Safety Act versus EU DSA for child-facing servicesThree Southeast Asian markets now have binding children's online safety rules. A country-by-country comparison, and one standard to meet them all.
Read: How Southeast Asia's new child online safety laws compareAustralia now has an under-16 minimum age, AI codes, a coming duty of care and a children's privacy code due by 10 December 2026. What organisations must do.
Read: What Australia's new child online safety rules mean for organisationsBanning social media for under-16s is a meaningful step, but not the whole solution. Children also need safer platforms, digital literacy, and real accountability...
Read: Why a social media ban isn't enough to protect childrenCourts have now looked at how platforms are designed for children. The challenge is no longer awareness but redesign: five principles and the questions every product team should answer.
Read: Designing digital platforms for children's wellbeingChildren call them their AI friends. What role AI companions play in children's lives, what adults miss and eight questions to start honest conversations.
Read: When AI becomes a friendSynthetic abuse imagery is not victimless. What AI-generated CSAM is, how fast it is growing, what the law says and what companies, schools and parents can do.
Read: What AI-generated CSAM is and how to respondWith improved privacy settings, limited contact from unknown adults, and better controls over harmful content, these updates reflect growing concern over how social media impacts children and young people. But safeguarding children online requires more than platform-level restrictions...
Read: What Meta's teen restrictions get right — and missWhere does the data go? Who can see it? What happens if a child is harmed? If a developer cannot answer before launch, the tool may not be ready for children.
Read: Why AI safety has to be designed in before launchChildren can be harmed by any organisation, including companies. Five reasons businesses need child safeguarding and the questions every board should ask.
Read: Why child safeguarding is a business responsibilityMaryam publishes regular commentary on online child safety and child safety in AI. Follow her on LinkedIn, or get in touch to discuss what your organisation needs.
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