Following the recent Children’s Commissioners report we highlighted previously in our blog, the House of Lords this week have backed the need for effective online safety education for young people. In an article on the BBC Education website, the House of Lords stated that “Children inhabit a world in which every aspect of their lives is mediated through technology: from health to education, from socialising to entertainment. Yet the recognition that children have different needs to those of adults has not yet been fully accepted in the online world,”
Lord Best who was involved in the creation of the report went on to say;
“There is a lot of material which makes the internet harmful but it can also be hugely beneficial – a way for children to interact and find out about the world. However, they need to cope with online pornography, internet grooming, sexting and body image issues, he said, as well as building resilience to the addictive properties of internet games which are “designed and developed to keep users online, missing out on sleep as they stay in their bedrooms glued to the screen”.
To read more about the report on the BBC Education News website
The full 100 page report can accessed via this link