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2026 Overview

While the Online Safety Act marked a significant step toward regulation, professionals in schools and children’s services still face challenges in applying and keeping pace with the law. With the ever-evolving digital landscape it is more critical than ever to build robust safeguarding strategies.

The Online Safety Conference 2026 united leading voices in policy, education, law enforcement, and child protection who explored the most pressing challenges in keeping children safe online. Through expert-led keynotes, practical case studies, and cross-sector collaboration, this event offers strategies for tackling image-based abuse, radicalisation, misinformation, harmful algorithms, and AI-driven threats, while equipping professionals with tools to create digitally resilient and empowered young people.

2026 Agenda

• 9.50am

  Chair’s Opening Remarks

  Boglarka Meggyesfalvi, Researcher, Child Online Harms Policy Think Tank, Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London 

  

• 10.00am

  Keynote: The Online Safety Act: From Policy to Practice

  • Understanding the Online Safety Act and implications for schools and safeguarding professionals in its implementation and development
  • Outlining potential pitfalls of the online safety act and how these can be addressed with young people
  • Translating policy into effective daily practice in schools, services and online platforms
  • Guidance on addressing challenges around enforcement and clarity across digital spaces

  Maeve Walsh, OSA Network Director, Online Safety Act Network

  

• 10.20am

  Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: The Global Challenge of Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse

  • Understanding NCII as Gender-Based Violence: Why this abuse is a critical component of tech-facilitated harms.
  • The Scale and Impact: High-level overview of societal and individual consequences.
  • Roles and Responsibilities: How industry, NGOs, and multi-stakeholder collaboration can address NCII globally.
  • Looking Ahead: Future priorities, emerging risks, and opportunities for collective action.

  David Wright CBE, CEO, SWGfL and Director, UK Safer Internet Centre

  

• 10.40am

  Keynote: Creating PSHE Curricula for Online Safety and Digital Wellbeing

  • Frameworks for embedding online safety into PSHE at all ages in line with statutory RSHE guidance
  • Guidance on navigating sensitive topics such as pornography, image-based abuse, identity-based hate, and self-image
  • Embedding a whole school approach to online safety

  Jenny Fox, Senior Subject Specialist, PSHE Association

  

• 11.00am

  Questions & Answers

• 11.20am

  Comfort Break

• 11.35am

  Keynote: The Impact of Technology-Facilitated Violence

  • Outlining the rise of online misogyny and technology-facilitated violence
  • The impact of technology-facilitated violence on young women and girls
  • Law and policy responses to technology-facilitated violence against girls: UK and international
  • Prevention of technology-facilitated violence against girls: looking forward

  Professor Olga Jurasz, Director, Centre for Protecting Women Online & Professor of Law, The Open University 

  

• 11.55pm

  Case study: Children and AI

  • Exploring the use of AI by young people
  • Understanding young people’s experience of AI as well as their concerns
  • Reflection on Safer Internet Day 2026, with its focus on the safe and responsible use of AI
  • Practical approaches for professionals to educate young people about AI safety

  Will Gardner, CEO, Childnet

  

• 12.15pm

  Questions & Answers 

• 12.35pm

  Lunch Break

• 2.00pm

  Keynote: Implementing the Online Safety Act

  • Understanding how the Online Safety Act protects children from harmful online content
  • Update on Ofcom’s implementation of the Online Safety Act
  • Deep dive on protections for children from specific kinds of content harmful to children, including online bullying and misogynistic hate and abuse

  Jennifer Lazarus, Protection of Children Policy Manager in the Online Safety Group, Ofcom 

  

• 2.20pm

  Case Study: Understanding the Impact of Online Harms on Young People 

  Becca Percival, Business Development Manager & Flourishing Families Teacher, Peace and Mind UK

  

• 2.40pm

  Questions & Answers

• 3.00pm

  Comfort Break 

• 3.15pm

  Keynote: Tackling Misinformation and Extremist Content Online

  • Practical tips for teaching critical thinking and media literacy
  • Understanding legal-but-harmful content and how to address it in schools
  • Tools to educate young people about misinformation and polarisation

  Geoff Wells, RSHE and Citizenship Subject Lead, Oak National Academy

  

• 3.35pm

  Keynote: Working with Parents: Building Digital Resilience at Home

  • Guidance on supporting families to talk openly about digital risks
  • Practical tools to help parents monitor, guide, and support online activity
  • Strategies for strengthening parent-school partnerships and parental engagement

  Tom Pinfield, Assistant Education Manager, Childnet 

  

• 3.55pm

  Questions & Answers

• 4.15pm

  Chair’s Closing Remarks

  Boglarka Meggyesfalvi, Researcher, Child Online Harms Policy Think Tank, Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London 

  

• 4.25pm

  Conference Close 

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2026 Speakers

Maeve Walsh

OSA Network Director

Online Safety Act Network

Jenny Fox

Senior Subject Specialist

PSHE Association

Professor Olga Jurasz

Director, Centre for Protecting Women Online & Professor of Law

The Open University

Hannah Oertel

External Relations & Programme Innovation Manager, Brianna’s Legacy & Founder

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