The entities Parental Controls News UK documents, the relations between them, and the evidence behind each one. This is the readable companion to entitymap.json, published under the EntityMap v1.0 specification.
Regulation
The UK rules barring under-16s from holding social media accounts, and the timetable and age checks they depend on.
DEPENDS_ON Age assuranceWhat's law, what's still being decided, and what to do before spring 2027 (updated as Ofcom publishes guidance). No panic required.
The UK under-16 social media ban, explained - published by Parental Controls News UK
Taxonomy · Wikidata
The controls already built into a family’s devices and accounts, and how this site groups the guides that set them up.
COVERS Setting up Screen Time properly, step by stepCOVERS Setting up Google Family Link properly, step by stepCOVERS Filter the whole house with one router changeStep-by-step guides to the free parental controls on your family's devices: Screen Time, Family Link, DNS filtering, age checks. Most of what parents pay for is already on the devices. These guides set it up properly, and say plainly when a paid app is worth adding.
Setup guides | parentalcontrols.co.uk - published by Parental Controls News UK
Concept · Wikidata
The methods a platform uses to establish how old a user is, which the under-16 ban relies on to work.
The age-check methods Ofcom is weighing for the under-16 ban (facial estimation, photo-ID, open banking) and what each costs in privacy. The ban only works if platforms can tell who's under 16. Ofcom reports by the end of October on which methods qualify. Here's each one in contention, and what it costs you in privacy.
How the under-16 age checks will work - published by Parental Controls News UK
parentalcontrols:Guide
Apple's built-in parental controls, set up properly in twenty minutes, including the passcode mistake that undoes almost everyone's setup.
Apple's built-in parental controls, set up properly in twenty minutes, including the passcode mistake that undoes almost everyone's setup. Apple's built-in controls are free and better than most parents realise, if you avoid the passcode mistake almost everyone makes. Twenty minutes, start to finish.
Setting up Screen Time properly, step by step - published by Parental Controls News UK
parentalcontrols:Guide
Google's free parental controls for Android, set up the right way: account, pairing, limits, app approvals, and the web filtering gap you need to close.
Google's free parental controls for Android, set up the right way: account, pairing, limits, app approvals, and the web filtering gap you need to close. Android's free controls do more than most parents expect, once the account is set up right. Allow forty minutes, and don't skip step five.
Setting up Google Family Link properly, step by step - published by Parental Controls News UK
parentalcontrols:Guide
Free DNS filtering that covers every device on your wifi: consoles, tablets, the lot. One router setting, ten minutes, no subscription.
Free DNS filtering that covers every device on your wifi: consoles, tablets, the lot. One router setting, ten minutes, no subscription. Every device on your wifi (phones, consoles, the telly, visiting friends' tablets) filtered through one setting that takes ten minutes and costs nothing.
Filter the whole house with one router change - published by Parental Controls News UK