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Digital Futures for Children (DFC) Lecture – Does online regulation work for children?
On 14th May, CMF Executive Group members Sally Latham and Olivia Dickinson attended the Digital Futures for Children’s (DFC – the joint research centre between LSE and the 5Rights Foundation) public lecture examining how the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC) and the EU’s Digital Services Act are reshaping platform design, […]
The Online Safety Act: Are Children Safer Online?
On May 1st, Internet Matters published a new report that examines whether the UK’s Online Safety Act is delivering meaningful improvements for children and parents. Key findings: Safety features are increasingly visible: Seven in ten children (68%) and parents (67%) report seeing more safety features including limits on risky functions like chat and greater control […]
The Children’s Media Summit ’26: Funding The Future
If the UK is to continue to create high-value media content for our children and young people then producers and content creators have to be able to carve out viable careers from their work. One of the consistent ‘asks’ in submissions to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Inquiry on children’s media has been […]
The Children’s Media Summit ’26: Commercial Realities
Children’s linear broadcasters are investing under 30% on original commissions, streamer appetite for kids’ content has reduced and YouTube advertising revenue is not making up the deficit. The third session of the Children’s Media Summit discussed who will actually fund the next generation of children’s media and how the UK might build a sustainable commercial […]
The Children’s Media Summit ’26: Delivering Public and Personal Value
As delivery of tailored content on platforms like YouTube and Roblox is set to extend the BBC’s reach amongst the young, what are the implications for the future of the children’s media industry and the Corporation’s public service responsibilities? CMF Board Member Jayne Kirkham listened in to Patricia Hidalgo, Director of BBC Children’s and Education […]
The Children’s Media Summit ’26: Value Judgement
The second session at the CMF Summit ’26 was all about identifying high-value media content for children and young people and then ‘surfacing’ that on the platforms where they watch. CMF Deputy Director Colin Ward and Executive Group member Michael Rose OBE listened as the panel discussed what is a ‘high value’ media experience? Moderater: […]