A new youth advisory board to help shape online safety

The Children’s Commissioner and her team will be running a new advisory board made up of young people aged 13 to 18, working with and on behalf of Ofcom. The group will share their experiences of the online world to help Ofcom make the code as effective as possible to improve online safety for children.

Recruitment for the new advisory group, which will be made of up to 15 young people aged 13 to 18 from across England with an interest in online safety and the online world, opens today. The Commissioner’s office would like to hear from young people about what they think needs to happen to make the online world safer for children.

Through this group the Commissioner’s office will work with Ofcom to track children’s online experiences so we can assess whether safety is improving in practice.

The deadline for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 26th October 2025.