Rights of children ‘taken away in the online world’

Leanda Barrington-Leach, head of EU affairs at digital safety charity 5Rights Foundation (Children’s Rights Alliance Online Safety Conference/PA)

The existing rights of children have been swept away in the online world because the age of “internet adulthood” is set at 13, a children’s rights conference has heard.

Leanda Barrington-Leach, head of EU affairs at 5Rights Foundation – a digital child safety charity – said it is “unforgiveable” that children’s rights have regressed in the digital world.