Keeping Young People Safe Online
Research and Evidence
This is a selection of published reports relevant to children and young people’s online use, harms and safety. It has been created to improve understanding of the online safety landscape. New reports will be added as they become available and we invite researchers and partners to share their publications by submitting content to the Hub.
Safer Internet Day 2026 Research – Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI
A healthy influence? Children’s exposure to appearance-changing products online
Understanding Risk, Barriers and Facilitators to Reporting Technology Assisted Child Sexual Abuse
Internet Matters | Understanding and Responding to Girls’ and Boys’ Online Experiences.
Internet Matters | Informed or Overwhelmed? Understanding the impact of news on children’s wellbeing
CyberSafeKids | Trends & Usage Report A Life Behind The Screens – Uncovering the Realities of Digital Childhood
Molly Rose Foundation | Pervasive-by-design : Suicide, self-harm and intense depression content on TikTok and Instagram, and how their algorithms recommend it to teens
The Children’s Commissioner for England | “Sex is kind of broken now”: children and pornography
The Children’s Commissioner for England | “One day this could happen to me” Children, nudification tools and sexually explicit deepfakes
Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
