The new council, which meets for the first time today, will report directly to the Prime Minister and unites over 100 organisations from the public and private sector working with government to deliver recommendations from Dr Tanya Byron’s report ‘Safer Children in a Digital World’, which she wrote in March after the Government asked her to conduct an independent review on protecting children in the digital age.
Working in collaboration with experts and organisations, parents and young people have been promised a voice in the development of a Child Internet Safety Strategy, to be delivered early next year. The strategy will establish a comprehensive awareness campaign on internet safety, provide specific measures to support vulnerable children and young people, promote responsible advertising to children online and establish voluntary codes of practice for user-generated content sites.
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