The means to protect your tween: Keeping kids safe online

Spend time with your youngster to set up some ground rules on phone and internet use — particularly in relation to unsupervised access, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

“To be fair, Instagram have done a lot of work recently. There used to be lots of hardcore porn on Instagram; now it’s more softcore,” Michel Colaci sighs.

Christmas is the time of year when many children will get a smartphone or tablet of their own for the first time. For a large number of these children, that will, unfortunately, mean totally unmonitored access to the best and the worst that the internet has to offer.