Resources for Policy Makers
Search our resource hub to find expert, evidence-led briefings and reports to guide effective and robust policy change in the online safety sector to reduce tech-facilitated self-harm and suicide
If the Government is to succeed in its policy objectives, the scope and design of these restrictions must be actively informed by young peoples’ needs.
Parents and children will only start to feel meaningfully safer if this Government adopts a strategy to tackle the drivers of harm.
Bereaved families and a survivor have written to Andy Burnham to demand a public inquiry into a suicide grooming forum which has been linked to 164 UK deaths.
New research by MRF and the University of Bristol highlights significant gaps in how secondary schools currently support children to safely navigate social media.
Research finds that teenagers continue to be exposed to harmful levels of suicide, self-harm, depression and eating disorder content on major social media platforms.
Our new research has found half of girls are still being exposed to high risk suicide, self-harm and depression content after the Online Safety Act came to force.
Urgent and decisive action is needed to address the preventable harm faced by young people on social media, gaming platforms, messaging services and AI chatbots.
Ian Russell has written to the Prime Minister urging him to go beyond a blanket ban and make safety and wellbeing the price for entry to the UK market.
Research briefing with the results of a large-scale polling on young people in Australia as to the efficacy of the social media ban (April 2026)