Children Safety Act 2017 active; 2025 replacement pending

Until then, the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017 (CYPS Act) remains in place.

At that point the current Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017 will be repealed.

The department has certain powers and responsibilities around the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We take these powers seriously and will provide early intervention when there is a risk that children and young people will be harmed. DHS is a key partner in the South Australian Government’s Child and Family Support System (CFSS) reform activities.

To establish an independent Children’s Commission and position of Commissioner, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the “Child Safety and Well-Being Act of 2026”.

(a) Relationship to other laws.—Nothing in this Act may be construed to— · (1) limit or impair the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C.

To establish an independent Children’s Commission and position of Commissioner, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the “Child Safety and Well-Being Act of 2026”.

Some platforms have taken steps to create “privacy by default” settings for young users. But such halfhearted initiatives are inconsistent across the industry and insufficient to protect children, particularly in their lax approach to age verification. The “Stop Online Predators Act” (S4609/A6549—formerly the New York Children's Online Safety Act), sponsored by Senator Gounardes’ and Assemblymember Nily Rozic, would address this urgent problem by requiring online platforms to utilize a commercially reasonable form of age assurance in order to determine the actual age of their users, turn off open chat functions by default for kids, unless a parent switches them back on, so adult strangers can’t privately message minors.

The letter argues that passage of the KIDS Act would threaten the progress states across the country have made in addressing the harms social media platforms pose to children, both by suing some of these platforms for acting illegally and by ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Laurel Lee (R-FL), along with Congressman Darren Soto (D-FL), introduced the Promoting a Safe Internet for Minors Act, bipartisan legislation that empowers parents, educators, and communities with the tools and information they need to keep children ...