Schools: Data, Digital and Financial Literacy Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Data, Digital and Financial Literacy

Lord Clement-Jones Excerpts
Tuesday 14th March 2023

(1 year, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Clement-Jones Portrait Lord Clement-Jones (LD)
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My Lords, given the importance of this subject and the risks that children in particular run on a daily basis with the internet, why have the Government not seized a golden opportunity in the Online Safety Bill to set minimum standards for digital and media literacy in schools and give Ofcom greater powers in terms of media literacy strategy?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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Our Online Safety Bill goes a long way to addressing the concerns that the noble Lord rightly raises, but I should like to reassure him that some of that is also reinforced by the work that we are doing at every key stage in our schools.