Will The Plan To Keep Kids Safe Online Work?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today, the chief executive of Ofcom, Dame Melanie Henrietta Dawes sat down with Laura to discuss the Online Safety Act.

In just under two weeks time, specific child safety measures, including changes to algorithms to filter out harmful content, will be enforced for a number of different tech platforms and companies.

And we find out about the latest development in the upcoming strikes from resident doctors in the NHS.

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New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Paddy O’Connell, Laura Kuenssberg and Joe Pike. It was made by Chris Gray with and Josh Jenkins. The social producers were Sophie Milward. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Paddy, you're back from the pub.
0:06.4	Yes, it was the outside broadcast position, the OBL, which unfortunately also was a P-U-B.
0:13.2	I love an acronym.
0:15.1	Was it worth it?
0:16.2	Yes, it was worth it because it's very good beer, and people of Sheffield were very chatty about the hose bike band
0:22.5	because Yorkshire waters brought one in.
0:24.9	Sheffield is a fine city.
0:26.5	And there wasn't much water, was there much beer?
0:28.6	Yes, plenty of beer, thank goodness.
0:30.5	We had to drink it.
0:32.5	Tremendous.
0:33.2	Shall we get on?
0:34.0	We must.
0:35.5	Newscast from the BBC.
0:37.8	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
0:40.8	Did I say that?
0:42.2	I can't believe I said that.
0:43.6	Next question.
0:44.4	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
0:47.0	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan.
0:50.0	I don't think I'm being rude.
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