Children: Adult Material Online

Baroness Sharples Excerpts

Wednesday 19th June 2013 Lords Chamber

[Lord Nash]

There is, on a number of fronts, including work on troubled families, but I think that the right reverend Prelate’s question merits a more detailed answer, so I shall write to him.

[Baroness Sharples]

Why do parents allow their children to have computers in their rooms, and even encourage them?

[Lord Nash]

Or televisions, for that matter. I agree. However, it is a fact of life these days, I am afraid, that the internet is the pavement for our children. That is why this is such an important issue, and parents do not understand enough about it.