UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code)
What is UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code)?
The UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code), issued by the ICO under the Data Protection Act 2018, establishes 15 standards that online services likely to be accessed by children must comply with. Effective September 2, 2021, it sets expectations for how children's data should be handled by default. It comprises 5 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in the United Kingdom.
How UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) maps to other frameworks
All 5 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) groups its controls into
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Query UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) programmatically
UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code), its 5 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) API reference and MCP config →What UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- STANDARD-13 Nudge Techniques
- STANDARD-14 Connected Toys and Devices
- STANDARD-15 Online Tools
- STANDARD-2 Data Protection Impact Assessments
- STANDARD-3 Age Appropriate Application
- STANDARD-5 Detrimental Use of Data
- STANDARD-8 Data Minimisation
- STANDARD-9 Data Sharing
- UKAADC-2 Age-Appropriate Application and Transparency
- UKAADC-3 Default Settings, Data Minimisation, Sharing
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