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UK Council for Child Internet Safety

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7864851 ↗
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The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) was set up in 2008 under the Brown Government charged with bringing together government departments, law enforcement agencies, academia, private industry and third-sector representatives such as charities and voluntary groups to collaborate on strategies to ensure child internet safety.

It is a group made up of more than 200 constituent organisations with a board chaired by ministers. It collates internet safety research, conducts its own consultations, gives advice to industry providers and publishes a code of practice. The remit of the Council began with the Byron Review and the group has subsequently drawn on diverse sources including the Bailey Review and the work of Professor Sonia Livingstone.

Origin

The Internet Crime Forum was a UK-based organisation established to develop the relationship between the internet industry, government and law enforcement to tackle Internet crime and improve confidence in Internet use. Its report made several recommendations for protecting children on the internet, including improved supervision of chat rooms and better display of safety messages. The report led in March 2001 to the formation of the Home Secretary’s Taskforce on Online Child Protection. The Taskforce brought children’s agencies together with industry, government and law enforcement to improve children's safety in using the internet.

A report published by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 31 July 2008 contained various recommendations among which were:

That the structure and funding of the Home Office Task Force on Child Internet Safety should be formalised.

That a new UK Council for Child Internet Safety should work with Internet-based industries to develop a consistent and transparent policy on take-down procedures with clear maximum times within which inappropriate material will be removed.

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