Daily roundup 21 May: Healthcare warning, 'sharenting', and age verification

Neil Puffett
Monday, May 21, 2018

Senior paediatrician warns of lack of focus on children's health; concerns parents are compromising their children by sharing too many details about them online; and Culture Secretary calls for social media sites to require parental age verification in order for their children to be able to create accounts, all in the news today.

Russell Viner said children are being "squeezed out by the rush to focus on the elderly". Picture: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Russell Viner said children are being "squeezed out by the rush to focus on the elderly". Picture: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

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