Online safety rules don’t go far enough, bereaved parents say
A group of bereaved parents have warned that the Online Safety Act does not yet go far enough to protect children on social media.
Bereaved Families for Online Safety have sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, urging both to pledge to do more for child online safety ahead of the approaching general election.
The intervention from the parents of 11 children, whose deaths involved social media in some form, comes after Ofcom published its draft children’s safety codes of practice, which set out how it expects online services to meet their new legal responsibilities to
