Campaigners call for better protections for young people online

Better education and awareness about online safety are needed, campaigners have said.

Any new online safety commissioner would need powers to take on tech giants, with the Children's Rights Alliance claiming an individual complaints mechanism is needed to protect children and young people online.

The call was made at the launch of a new online safety campaign, based around calls for the appointment of an online safety commissioner, increased educational and community awareness programmes on online safety, and an individual complaints mechanism to ensure  children and young people whose rights are not respected by the online providers and who have exhausted all appropriate channels with the relevant platform have access to an effective remedy.