Internet: Children

(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent children accessing legal content online that may be harmful to them.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 24th March 2022

Protecting children online is a key objective of the Online Safety Bill, which the government introduced to Parliament on 17 March 2022.

Providers in scope of the legislation will need to assess whether their service is likely to be accessed by children and, if so, deliver additional protections for them. Safety measures will need to protect children from content and activity which is legal but harmful to them such as pornography and bullying. If sites fail in their duties under the Bill, they will be subject to tough enforcement action by Ofcom.

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