About The Safe AI for Children Alliance
The Safe AI for Children Alliance (SAIFCA) is an independent, UK-based organisation with an international mission to protect children’s safety, rights, and wellbeing as artificial intelligence develops.
Founded in late 2024, we provide practical guidance, develop policy proposals, and campaign for enforceable protections. Our work addresses harms affecting children now and the wider decisions about AI that shape their lives and futures.
We are a UK-registered Community Interest Company operating as a non-profit organisation for public benefit.
What we do
SAIFCA helps families and professionals understand AI-related risks and take practical steps to protect children. We also advocate for changes that require governments and technology providers to take responsibility for preventing harm.
Our work includes:
- Publishing free guidance for parents, carers, educators, and other professionals working with children.
- Developing policy proposals that set out how protections could be made enforceable.
- Explaining emerging concerns and helping people raise them with decision-makers.
- Bringing together relevant perspectives from children’s safety, rights and development, AI safety, education, law, and governance.
We address the products children use and the systems that affect them through other people’s actions or decisions. This includes immediate safeguarding concerns, the effects of AI on children’s development, and wider risks from increasingly powerful systems.
Our mission and strategy explain the protections we are working towards and the principles guiding our approach.
Our work so far
Practical guidance for families and professionals
We have developed a collection of free resources covering issues such as AI-generated sexualised images, harmful chatbot interactions, privacy, and AI in education. These resources explain the risks in accessible language and offer practical steps for responding to them.
Our guidance also addresses emerging technologies, including AI toys and glasses, and questions about how AI could affect children’s future opportunities. We published some of the first AI-specific advice encouraging schools and other organisations to reconsider the use of identifiable photographs of children on public-facing websites and social media.
The Three Non-Negotiables
Our Three Non-Negotiables campaign calls for minimum protections against AI systems creating or facilitating sexualised images of children, cultivating emotional dependency, or encouraging children to harm themselves or others.
We have developed the campaign into a policy framework covering the products children encounter and the underlying systems on which they depend. It sets out proposals for independent scrutiny, evidence requirements, and regulatory intervention where protection is inadequate.
Keep Childhood Human
Our Keep Childhood Human campaign focuses on the human relationships and experiences children need as they grow up. It draws attention to the importance of friendship, play, and independent thought, including the opportunities children need to learn through real-world experience.
We have gathered input from developmental psychologists and child-safety professionals internationally to help inform this work.
Public and policy engagement
Public and policy engagement
SAIFCA has contributed to discussions about children’s AI safety in UK Parliament and at international forums, including IASEAI’s 2026 conference at UNESCO in Paris.
We have supported the Global Call for AI Red Lines and published analysis of the pressures driving the AI arms race. In September 2026, we initiated a public statement supporting A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models and calling for children’s rights, safety, and long-term interests to be central to taking its proposals forward.
The statement deliberately brings together people with experience across advanced AI safety and governance, children’s safety and rights, child development, education, online safety, and public policy. We are building on that foundation by exploring how children’s organisations and experts can contribute to the wider support needed for effective controls against catastrophic AI risks, while specialist technical work on red lines continues elsewhere.
Our frontier AI governance recommendations set out the protections we support and the contribution SAIFCA can make. This work sits alongside our practical safeguarding resources and campaigns addressing harms affecting children today.
Our people and organisation
SAIFCA is a founder-led organisation supported by advisers, volunteers, and contributors.
Our Founder and Executive Director, Tara Steele, leads our work on policy, public communication, and organisational development. Tara is a former UK intelligence officer with more than ten years’ experience, holds a First-Class Law degree, and has served as Vice-Chair of a school governing board. She is also a parent of two.
Her background informs SAIFCA’s emphasis on examining evidence, anticipating risks, and connecting policy questions with the realities of children’s lives. Tara is a Council Member of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) and co-chairs its Working Group on Children’s AI Safety.
Our International Advisory Board provides strategic advice, challenge, and expertise across relevant fields. Volunteers and contributors also support the work through professional knowledge and practical experience.
SAIFCA is an official affiliate of IASEAI. This provides a connection with an international community working on AI safety and ethics, alongside our engagement with people working in child protection and education.
We are grateful to Sir Stephen Fry for his public endorsement of SAIFCA, and to the people and organisations who share our resources, contribute expertise, and support our work.
Independence and support
SAIFCA remains independent of technology company funding. Our positions are guided by evidence and children’s interests, and we will not accept funding conditions that compromise our ability to speak or act independently.
The organisation has been built through its founder’s personal commitment and the contributions of people who share its mission. Reliable funding is needed to sustain that work and build the capacity to respond effectively as AI develops.
Support helps us keep guidance freely available, maintain our policy and public communication work, and follow through on opportunities to influence protective action. It also enables us to make better use of the expertise offered by advisers and collaborators.
We welcome individual donations and enquiries from trusts, foundations, and other funders committed to independent work in the public interest.
Get in touch
Whether you are seeking guidance, working with children, or interested in supporting our work, we welcome your involvement.
To discuss funding, collaboration, or other enquiries, please contact info@safeaiforchildren.org.
You can also subscribe for new guidance, campaign developments, and opportunities to contribute.
The Safe AI for Children Alliance is a registered Community Interest Company, company number 16284722.