Schedule 3: Timing of providers’ assessments
Part 1 of Schedule 3 specifies the deadlines by which service providers must complete their illegal content risk assessments and children’s access assessments.
	The general approach is that service providers will have three months from the publication of the guidance relating to a particular assessment (or, once guidance has been published, from the date on which they become a service that needs to complete a particular assessment) to complete the relevant assessment. Part 2 of the Schedule specifies deadlines for children’s risk assessments. Under Part 3 OFCOM may extend these deadlines for individual service providers or groups of service providers.
	Part 3 of Schedule 3 sets out the deadlines by which risk assessments and child access assessments must be carried out by providers of video-sharing platform (VSP) services currently regulated by Part 4B of the Communications Act 2003. These services are subject to transitional arrangements pursuant to which they are obliged to undertake their risk and child access assessments before transitioning from the VSP regime to the Online Safety regime. The requirement to do the assessments is triggered by the assessment start date as set out in Schedule 3, paragraph 8. The general approach is that these services will have three months from the date that the requirement to conduct the assessments is imposed upon them or the date on which the guidance relating to a particular assessment is published, whichever is later.