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One in five children aged three and four have a mobile phone (Ofcom)

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69% of those aged three and four are regularly using devices to go online (Ofcom)

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98% of 12-to-15 year olds have mobile phones (Ofsted)

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Images of children as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds (Internet Watch Foundation)

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Just under half of young people have been exposed to online pornography (NSPCC)

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By age nine, 10% had seen pornography, 27% had seen it by age 11 and half of children who had seen pornography had seen it by age 13 (Children’s Commissioner)

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Violent online content is now ‘unavoidable’ for children in the UK (Ofcom)

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Extreme online misogynistic content becoming normalised for teenagers (UCL, University of Kent and ASCL)

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Easy access to ‘dark web’ – drugs, weapons, child pornography, suicide chat rooms (National Library of Medicine)

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WhatsApp group for children as young as nine promoting self-harm, sexual violence and racism (BBC News)

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1 in 10 children aged 12 to 15 told Ofcom they got most of their news from TikTok (DCMS)

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A third of children aged 5 to 7 have personal profiles on social media (Ofcom)

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Dead in 6 hours: How Nigerian sextortion scammers targeted my son (BBC World Service)

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Toilet training and high anxiety (BBC News)

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Molly Russell coroners ‘Report to Prevent Future Deaths’ (BBC News)

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Molly Russell’s friend “It was shocking to see that it was that bad”, referring to the graphic material that was shown at Molly's inquest (Sky News)

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“I’ve seen horrible things”: Children’s experiences of the online world (Children’s Commissioner)

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MP backs Brianna Ghey’s mother’s call for social media safeguarding (BBC News)

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Chatbot versions of the teenagers Molly Russell and Brianna Ghey have been found on Charatcter.ai (BBC News)

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Christoforos Nicolaou’s parents launch a foundation in memory of their son to raise awareness of online harms (BBC News)

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Archie Battersbee’s mother warns more will be hurt if online safety is not taken seriously (BBC News)

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Action for Children, the National Childrens Bureau, NSPCC, and the Children’s Society partnered to call on government and decision makers to do more to prioritise children and young people (Action for Children)

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97 children’s charities from across England warn that critical children’s rights issues must be urgently addressed (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Children’s Rights Alliance for England – CRAE)

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NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels (The Guardian)

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Social media algorithms show violence to boys (BBC News)

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5Rights – Smartphone policies in schools (Digital Futures for Children, LSE, 5 Rights Foundation)

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A focus on adolescent social media use and gaming in Europe, central Asia and Canada: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children international report from the 2021/2022 survey (WHO, International Repository for Information Sharing)

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Digital Futures for Children. Code of Practice for Education Technology (Digital Futures for Children, LSE, 5 Rights Foundation)

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Why children’s media must aim high (Centre for Media and Information Literacy)

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A Positive Vision for Media Literacy (Ofcom)

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Open letter re connection between online activity and violent disorder (Dame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom)

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Pathways, a parallel curriculum for Sixth form students (Ladies’ College, Guernsey)

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Molly Rose Foundation – Live long – stay strong (Ian Russell, Molly’s father)

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Social Media and Online Abuse of Teachers (Dr Patrick Roach (NASUWT head) – (teacher assaults and online abuse)

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A Conversation on Child Online Safety (Baroness Beeban Kidron)

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Recommendations for making the online world safer for children (Children’s Commissioner)

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Every child must be protected from violence, exploitation and abuse on the internet (Unicef)

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Creating a safe environment and minimising the risk of harm are essential to protect children online (Council of Europe)

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Childhood is too short to be spent on a smartphone (Smartphone Free Childhood)

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In the year ending March 2023, 9.5% of children aged 13 to 15 years had received a sexual message (Office for National Statistics)

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Addressing childhood development milestones in the digital environment (Baroness Beeban Kidron, Angharad Rudkin, University of Southampton)

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Five-year olds are online abuse victims - calls for stronger social media rules to tackle online abuse (NSPCC)

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The Teenage Guide to Digital Wellbeing - this book is not about teenagers giving up their devices forever; it’s about being more mindful of how they use them, so they can live their best lives – on and off the screen (Tanya Goodwin)

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Search engines can act as one-click gateways to self-harm and suicide content (Ofcom)

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Manifesto for Generational Change (Tech She Can)

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We’ve lost the ability to safeguard children on social media’, says mother of murdered teen Brianna Ghey

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Evidence-based actions to end online sexual exploitation and abuse (Disrupting harm)

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Realising children’s best interests in digitised education (Digital Futures Commission)

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"...what we're seeing is WhatsApp putting its shareholders' profits in front of children's safety..." (Pepe Di’lasio – General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders

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How many more harrowing victim statements, delivered in person by victims does there need to be? How high do the numbers need to go in respect of discovered instances of csam or grooming? (John Carr of UK Council on Child Internet Safety)

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'Kids are being harmed online': Campaign calls for legislation to regulate tech companies (The Journal, Ireland)

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An Alliance to empower the next generation

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Digital Futures for Children research database

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Digital Citizenship Education (Council of Europe)

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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture - Gareth Southgate

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Lost Boys - The Centre for Social Justice