The research shows 35 per cent of 12- to 15-year-olds and 16 per cent of eight to 11-year-olds in the UK can now go online in their rooms, compared to 20 per cent and nine per cent respectively in 2007.
The UK Children's Media Literacy report shows understanding of how the internet works, however, remains patchy. A fifth of 12- to 15-year-olds who use search engines say they don't know how results are ordered and a third think the most truthful are shown first.
Most parents (55 per cent) whose children use the internet at home say they don't have filtering software or internet controls in place. Three-quarters of parents are also concerned that other people could find out the whereabouts of their children through mobile phone location-based services.
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