One in five children see something online they 'wouldn’t want their parents to know about'

One in five children see something online they 'wouldn’t want their parents to know about'

'Our main concern is around unsupervised access — in places like bedrooms, with doors shut. This can leave them vulnerable.'

Over one in five children aged 8-12 have seen something online in the last year that they “wouldn’t want their parents to know about”.

A survey of 1,600 children in that age group found that half of children accepted they “spend too much time online” and just under a third say they can “go online whenever they want”.

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