Child Safety / Identity & Consent

Age Assurance & Parental Consent Architecture.

Build proportionate identity and consent flows that verify the right party without collecting more personal data than necessary.

Business context

What this capability solves

Technical and operational design for age assurance, parental consent, guardianship verification and parental-control configuration.

EBP Integra delivery principle

Advice, controls, technology, governance, evidence and operating procedures are designed together so the capability can be sustained after implementation.

Deep-dive capabilities

Capability model

The service can be scoped as a focused engagement or combined into a broader enterprise programme.

Age Assurance Strategy

Select proportionate age assurance patterns based on product risk and data minimization.

Parental Consent Flow

Design consent initiation, authentication, capture, evidence, withdrawal and refresh.

Guardianship Verification

Define evidence and workflow for confirming parental/guardian authority where needed.

Parental Control Model

Design configurable permissions, monitoring, visibility and intervention features.

Consent Evidence

Define audit trail, timestamps, versioning and retention.

Exception & Recovery

Handle failed verification, disputes, account recovery and changed family circumstances.

Reference operating model

How the capability fits together

Final scope, control ownership and delivery model are confirmed during discovery.

Governance & Scope

Objectives, applicability, decision rights, owners, policies, risk appetite and acceptance criteria.

Assessment & Design

Evidence collection, gap/risk analysis, target controls, architecture, procedures and prioritized roadmap.

Implementation

Controls, documentation, workflows, integrations, configuration, training and remediation.

Assurance & Operations

Testing, evidence, management reporting, escalation, review cadence and continuous improvement.

Controls & governance

Child-first risk and best-interest lens
Data minimization and privacy-protective defaults
Age/parental/guardianship governance
Dark-pattern and excessive-engagement review
Documented escalation for high-risk findings
Evidence suitable for regulator and management review

Priority use cases

Child account onboarding
Family account architecture
Parental controls
Age-gated features
Sensitive child processing
Consent redesign

Key deliverables

Age assurance architecture
Consent flow specification
Guardianship workflow
Parental-control model
Evidence/logging requirements
Exception procedures

Integration considerations

Product/SDLC governance
Privacy/PDP programme
Identity/age assurance
Consent/preferences
Trust & safety operations
Incident/complaint management

Implementation

Phased delivery

Each phase produces decision-ready evidence and clear ownership for the next stage.

1. DiscoverConfirm scope, stakeholders, obligations, evidence, dependencies and risk drivers.

2. Assess & DesignAnalyze current state, define target controls and agree the implementation roadmap.

3. ImplementDeploy controls, documents, workflows, training and required technology/integration.

4. Assure & OperateValidate effectiveness, close residual gaps, hand over and establish recurring governance.

Outcome and KPI framework

Verification success/failureConsent evidence completenessException rateParental-control adoptionPrivacy-minimization compliance