Children’s Safety Statement

Site: uksocials.club
Operator: CMP Technologies Ltd
Last updated: the 31st of July 2026
Version: 2.0

What this statement is

UK Socials (uksocials.club) is open to anyone aged 13 or over, so teenagers are on the platform alongside adults. This page explains, honestly and specifically, what keeps young members safe here: the rules, the architecture, and what to do if something worries you.

It sits alongside our Terms of Service (especially sections 9 and 10), our Privacy Policy (especially section 10), and our Community Guidelines, and it reflects our duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 and the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design Code.

Our age policy in plain English

Minimum age 13. Anyone under 13 cannot use UK Socials, and an under-13 account found is deleted (§”Under 13″ below).
Age is declared at signup and never shown again. We collect your date of birth to enforce the rules on this page. Nobody’s age or date of birth is ever displayed to anyone, anywhere on the platform, so nobody can browse members by youth.
How we verify. Declared date of birth, checked and enforced everywhere, plus behavioural signals that flag suspicious accounts for human review. UK Socials hosts no pornography and no content promoting suicide, self-harm or eating disorders (all prohibited and removed on sight), so the stricter “highly effective age assurance” regime for services carrying that content does not apply to us. We keep this under review against Ofcom and ICO guidance, and our internal children’s access assessment records the reasoning.

The protections that are built into the platform

None of the following depends on anyone’s vigilance. They are architecture: they run automatically, for every member, all the time.

The contact gates

Two age bands cannot contact each other on UK Socials, in either direction:

members aged 21 or over and members aged 17 or under, and
members aged 18 or over and members aged 15 or under.

“Contact” means everything: messages, event invitations, interest matching, and even seeing each other. A member outside your permitted band does not appear in your directory, and their profile is not reachable even by its direct address: to you, they do not exist. Where the platform cannot establish an age, it blocks rather than allows.

So an adult stranger cannot message a 15-year-old here, cannot invite them to anything, cannot browse their profile, and cannot find them at all.

Family Link, the single exception

Real families exist on the platform (a parent and their teenager, siblings, cousins), so there is exactly one way through the contact gates: Family Link, where both people explicitly opt in and confirm the family relationship. The under-18 side confirms their parent or guardian knows. Family Link never overrides any other rule (including event age groups), we can revoke it if it is misused, and using it to reach someone who is not genuinely family is treated as one of the most serious breaches on the platform.

Age-grouped events, with no exceptions

Every event carries an age group chosen by its organiser: Family friendly, 13-15 only, 16-17 only, 18+, 21+, 25+, or Mixed. Booking, tickets and invitations are blocked outside the group, automatically, with no exceptions, including for family-linked members. A teenager can read the public page of an 18+ event (there is nothing wrong with looking forward to things), but cannot book it, and cannot be invited to it.

Private by design

Profiles are visible only to logged-in members: nothing about a member is browsable from the open web.
Optional profile content is invisible until its owner chooses to place it.
Location metadata (EXIF and GPS) is stripped from every uploaded photo, so a photo can never silently reveal where a young member was when it was taken.
Postcodes and addresses are never displayed to anyone.
The political-affiliation feature does not exist for under-18s: no option, no data, nothing to see.
Matching for under-18s stays within their own age band, its results always pass through the contact gates, and every curated group is approved by a human before any invitation goes out.

The panic button

Every member under 18 has a panic button available on every page. One tap sends an urgent report directly to UK Socials administrators, and only to us: not to parents, not to friends, not to anyone the young member knows. That matters, because a young person in a bad situation often cannot ask for help in front of the people around them. We treat panic reports as same-day, drop-everything priority, and we involve the police or specialist services where the situation warrants it.

Report and block, everywhere

Every photo, message, profile and review carries a Report control. Reports go to a human. The person reported is never told who reported them.
Any member can block any other member: a blocked member cannot see, message, or interact with them, and is not told they were blocked.

Behavioural monitoring

The platform watches for the patterns that matter here: attempts to contact members outside the age bands, adults repeatedly viewing the profiles of much younger members, and the grooming-adjacent patterns (sudden profile changes after building contacts, pushing young members toward off-platform apps). Flags go to a human administrator for review; nothing automatic ever punishes anyone, and suspected grooming is reported to the police as a matter of policy.

What we do about the worst content

Suspected child sexual abuse material is removed immediately on discovery, the account is terminated, evidence is preserved, and we report to the Internet Watch Foundation (https://report.iwf.org.uk/) and the National Crime Agency. Zero tolerance, no appeal.
Uploads today are protected by report-driven human review, prioritised within hours for child-safety reports. We intend to add the IWF’s automated hash-matching of every upload as soon as the platform’s revenue can fund the membership (around £1,000 a year); we say this openly so we can be held to it, and this page will change when it lands.
Grooming, sexual communication with a child, and every other child-related offence: reported to the police, always.

For parents and guardians

What your teenager can do here

Build a profile, browse events and venues, RSVP to events in their age group, be matched and exchange messages with members inside their permitted age band, and attend events. That is the platform: it exists to get people to real-world socials, not to keep them scrolling.

What they cannot encounter

Adults outside their band (invisible in both directions), sexual content (prohibited platform-wide, for adults too), age-inappropriate events (blocked), advertising (none exists here), or attention-farming feeds (none exist here).

Practical advice we stand behind

Talk about who they are meeting, as you would for any real-world plan. This platform’s whole purpose is real-world meetups; the safety features above protect the introduction, and sensible meetup habits (public places, someone knows where you are) protect the rest.
Make sure they know about the Report control and the panic button.
Their profile and message history are visible from their own account, and you can ask them to show you.

If you are worried, or want an account closed

Concerns about something happening to your child here: email info@uksocials.club, subject “Parental concern”. Handled as a child-safety priority by a human.
Urgent (targeting, threats, suspected grooming): subject “URGENT: child safety”. Same-day.
Immediate danger: 999 first, then tell us.
To close your child’s account: email us from a contactable address with the username. We may verify the relationship, and we then delete the account under the Privacy Policy’s rules (profile offline immediately; full deletion after the 90-day safety-review window).

For young members

If anything here makes you uncomfortable: the Report button is on everything, the panic button is on every page, and both come straight to us without telling anyone around you. You will not be in trouble for using them, ever, even if it turns out to be nothing.

If you would rather talk to someone outside the platform: Childline, 0800 1111, free and confidential.

The paperwork behind this page

For our Online Safety Act and Children’s Code compliance we maintain internally, and review at least annually: a children’s access assessment, a children’s risk assessment, an illegal-content risk assessment, a data protection impact assessment, a record of processing activities, and our CSEA reporting procedure. They are internal documents, and Ofcom and the ICO can request them at any time.

Contact

Child-safety and parental concerns: info@uksocials.club (“URGENT: child safety” / “Parental concern”)
Immediate danger: 999. Police non-emergency: 101
Internet Watch Foundation: https://report.iwf.org.uk/
NSPCC: 0808 800 5000. Childline: 0800 1111