Philip Hollobone
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(5 years, 4 months ago)
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Sajid Javid
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise that point, and the companies can do more to help young people to help themselves when online. When I was recently in the US, I met all the tech giants, and there are tools that they can roll out and they have promised to do just that, but there is also a role for parents in helping their children to be much more aware online.
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
What is the maximum penalty for online child grooming and how many convictions have been secured?
Sajid Javid
Sadly, the amount of abuse that we are seeing is increasing year by year. There was a 23% increase in all child sex offences in the year to March 2018 and a 206% increase since 2013. The good news is that much more work and effort is going into this; each month there are around 400 arrests and 500 children safeguarded.