--- title: "UK Online Safety Act Checklist" canonical_url: "https://www.sorena.io/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/checklist" source_url: "https://www.sorena.io/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/checklist" author: "Sorena AI" description: "Audit-ready UK Online Safety Act checklist covering service scope, illegal risk assessment, child access and child risk assessment, moderation, complaints." published_at: "2026-02-21" updated_at: "2026-02-21" keywords: - "UK Online Safety Act checklist" - "online safety act audit checklist" - "Ofcom readiness checklist" - "child safety checklist" - "UK OSA checklist" - "audit readiness" - "risk assessment" - "child safety" --- **[SORENA](https://www.sorena.io/)** - AI-Powered GRC Platform [Home](https://www.sorena.io/) | [Solutions](https://www.sorena.io/solutions) | [Artifacts](https://www.sorena.io/artifacts) | [About Us](https://www.sorena.io/about-us) | [Contact](https://www.sorena.io/contact) | [Portal](https://app.sorena.io) --- # UK Online Safety Act Checklist Audit-ready UK Online Safety Act checklist covering service scope, illegal risk assessment, child access and child risk assessment, moderation, complaints. *Checklist* *Execution and Evidence* ## UK Online Safety Act Checklist Use this checklist to confirm that the service is actually operating inside the regime. Each item should point to a dated artifact, a named owner, and a review trigger. The right UK OSA checklist is not a list of policy topics. It is a control register that proves the service has been scoped correctly, assessed on time, updated after changes, and supported by live moderation, child safety, and regulator-response processes. ## Scope and legal baseline checklist Confirm the service classification, exemption analysis, and child-access position before you test any downstream control items. The first evidence point should be a current scope memo and versioned service inventory. - Regulated service classification approved - Schedule 1 exemption analysis completed - Child access position documented - Category exposure noted separately from base duties *Recommended next step* *Placement: after the checklist block* ## Turn UK Online Safety Act Checklist into an operational assessment Assessment Autopilot can take UK Online Safety Act Checklist from turning this checklist into an operational workflow to a reusable workflow inside Sorena. Teams working on UK Online Safety Act can keep owners, evidence, and next steps aligned without copying this guide into separate documents. - [Open Assessment Autopilot for UK Online Safety Act Checklist](/solutions/assessment.md): Start from UK Online Safety Act Checklist and turn the guidance into owned tasks, evidence requests, and review checkpoints. - [Talk through UK Online Safety Act](/contact.md): Review your current process, evidence gaps, and next steps for UK Online Safety Act Checklist. ## Risk and control checklist Verify that the illegal content risk assessment, child access assessment, and children risk assessment were completed on time where required and that they now drive actual controls. Look for evidence of tuning, testing, and exception handling rather than only first-version signoff. - Illegal content risk assessment completed and refreshed - Children access and children risk assessments completed where relevant - Moderation, age assurance, complaints, and escalation controls tested - Terms enforcement QA and user-redress data retained ## Regulator readiness checklist Ofcom readiness means the service can answer information requests quickly, explain its risk logic, and produce current evidence for the controls it claims to run. A checklist item is not complete if the artifact exists but no one can locate or explain it. - Information notice response owner named - Senior management escalation path documented - Transparency and category reporting data sources identified - Evidence folder tested with a mock regulator request ## Primary sources - [Online Safety Act 2023](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/contents?ref=sorena.io) - Primary legislation for scope, duties, risk assessment, enforcement, transparency, and complaints provisions. - [Online Safety Act explainer](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer?ref=sorena.io) - Current government implementation status, deadlines, and plain language explanation of the regime. - [ICO audit guide for the Age Appropriate Design Code](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/advice-and-services/audits/data-protection-audit-framework/toolkits/age-appropriate-design/?ref=sorena.io) - Audit scope and control themes for children's data, including age assurance, privacy settings, geolocation, profiling, and nudge techniques. ## Related Topic Guides - [UK Online Safety Act Age Assurance Options | Age Estimation, Verification, and Child Access Controls](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/age-assurance-options.md): Grounded age assurance guide for the UK Online Safety Act covering January 2025 pornography guidance, highly effective age assurance. - [UK Online Safety Act Applicability Test | Regulated Service, Exemptions, and UK Scope](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/applicability-test.md): Grounded UK Online Safety Act applicability test covering regulated user-to-user and search services, Schedule 1 exemptions, provider pornography scope. - [UK Online Safety Act Children Safety Duties | Child Access, Child Risk, and Age Assurance](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/children-safety-duties.md): Grounded guide to UK Online Safety Act children safety duties covering section 81 timing, children access assessments, children risk assessments. - [UK Online Safety Act Compliance Program | Governance, Controls, and Ofcom Readiness](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/compliance.md): Program design guide for UK Online Safety Act compliance covering governance, scope, assessments, moderation, age assurance, complaints, metrics. - [UK Online Safety Act Content Moderation and Appeals | Complaints, Terms Enforcement, and Redress](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/content-moderation-and-appeals.md): Grounded guide to UK Online Safety Act moderation and appeals requirements covering sections 21, 32, 71, and 72, complaints design, terms enforcement. - [UK Online Safety Act Deadlines and Compliance Calendar | 2023 to 2026 Milestones](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/deadlines-and-compliance-calendar.md): Grounded UK Online Safety Act calendar covering 26 October 2023 enactment, 31 January 2024 offences, 16 December 2024 illegal harms codes. - [UK Online Safety Act Enforcement and Penalties | Ofcom Notices, Penalties, and Escalation](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/enforcement-and-penalties.md): Grounded UK Online Safety Act enforcement guide covering Ofcom information notices, senior manager naming, confirmation decisions. - [UK Online Safety Act FAQ | Scope, Child Duties, Categories, and Ofcom Enforcement](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/faq.md): Practical FAQ on the UK Online Safety Act covering who is in scope, what changed in 2025, child access and risk assessments, age assurance, category duties. - [UK Online Safety Act Illegal Content Duties | Illegal Harms, Priority Offences, and Risk Assessments](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/illegal-content-duties-explained.md): Grounded guide to UK Online Safety Act illegal content duties covering user-to-user and search services, illegal content risk assessments. - [UK Online Safety Act Penalties and Fines | GBP 18 Million, 10 Percent Revenue, and Liability](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/penalties-and-fines.md): Grounded penalty guide for the UK Online Safety Act covering the GBP 18 million or 10 percent worldwide revenue cap. - [UK Online Safety Act Requirements | Sections, Deadlines, Controls, and Evidence](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/requirements.md): Detailed UK Online Safety Act requirements guide mapping scope, illegal content duties, child safety duties, terms enforcement, complaints, categorisation. - [UK Online Safety Act Risk Assessment Template | Illegal Content and Child Safety Template](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/online-safety-risk-assessment-template.md): Practical UK Online Safety Act risk assessment template covering service profile, harms inventory, controls, residual risk, child access, child safety. - [UK Online Safety Act Risk Assessments Playbook | How to Run Illegal and Children Risk Reviews](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/risk-assessments-playbook.md): Operational playbook for UK Online Safety Act risk assessments covering sequencing, ownership, evidence collection, control design. - [UK Online Safety Act Service Scope and Categorization | Category 1, 2A, 2B, and Part 3 Logic](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/service-scope-and-categorization.md): Grounded service scope and categorisation guide for the UK Online Safety Act covering Part 3 logic, likely to be accessed by children, Category 1, 2A. - [UK Online Safety Act vs EU Digital Services Act | Scope, Child Safety, and Enforcement Differences](/artifacts/uk/online-safety-act/online-safety-act-vs-dsa.md): Practical comparison of the UK Online Safety Act and the EU Digital Services Act covering regulated service models, illegal content frameworks. --- [Privacy Policy](https://www.sorena.io/privacy) | [Terms of Use](https://www.sorena.io/terms-of-use) | [DMCA](https://www.sorena.io/dmca) | [About Us](https://www.sorena.io/about-us) (c) 2026 Sorena AB (559573-7338). 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